Is it possible, with the increase of co2 in the atmosphere, that the oceans may become carbon neutral?

Question

We are told that the oceans act as a carbon sink. Yet the temperature of the oceans are increasing and their carrying capacity will likely decrease. What implications for global warming if any?

Answer 1

woo!!>..intelligent question, not too many ppl here probably understand wat you spitting here.

theoretically speaking there could be carbon neutrality, that means all the marine life would probably be dead, which would require a shiit load of carbon

as for the global warming part, it would influence the ocean currents depending on the waters position on earth, it would probably affect land and sea breeze since the specific heating capacity of the water would probably have gone down due to the increase in the water temperatures, meaning that the lands closer to the oceans would feel colder since the exchange of heat between the ocean and land at night has been greatly compromised, also paradoxically speaking, it could feel warmer on the lands, since the already heated waters due to too much carbon, could be loosing heat to the land.it will all depend on how high the temperature rises from the specific heating capacity of the water.

the carbon cycle for sure would be f. ed up.

Answer 2

You might look at this article. It is doubtful that the carrying capacity of the oceans would ever be exceeded. There are some very interesting numbers here.

http://ioc.unesco.org/iocweb/co2panel/Ca...