This is because cold oceans absorb CO2, and gradually release it when they warm due to natural causes.
It would be a mistake to think of geo-engineering as a substitute for curbing carbon-dioxide emissions not merely because of the acidification of the oceans, but also because if you ever stop fertilising the oceans or spraying the atmosphere or whatever, the problem will rapidly return.
But, while most of the rest of us during this last decade enjoyed life, or complained about it, inside America's borders, they crossed the oceans because their country said that it mattered.
In a lot of ways, the weather of the four giant planets (Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune) should be easier to understand than that of the earth, because there are no oceans and continents to complicate matters.
They claim they are losing shoreline because of melting ice and rising oceans, that floods and storms are more severe, causing greater damage, and that controlling smog is getting more difficult.
So, apart from all the side events with millionaire financiers launching ideas for getting money to poor countries, and ocean scientists warning that the oceans are turning more acidic because of CO2, and forestry experts explaining all the different and often conflicting ways of funding the protection of the forests, you have the main negotiations themselves.
Controlling planes over oceans presents all kinds of challenges because aircraft are out of normal radio and radar range.
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Nav Canada decided to push ahead with the technology years ago in part because it handles so many airplanes coming off the oceans from Asia and Europe that it knew would be equipped with data-link capabilities.
"Vital stories pertaining to the environment, natural resources, food safety, fisheries and oceans are not coming out in Canada because, for several years now, the government has imposed rules which prevents its scientists from speaking freely about their publicly funded research, " she said.
Rather than top-down thinking that leads us to make what we make because we can make it, it reveals the opportunity oceans that surround us.
Plastic waste is one of the worst forms of trash because it takes so long to degrade, thus overflowing our landfills and polluting our oceans and waterways.
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Forty million years ago, when the earth was warmer because there was more carbon dioxide in the air as a result of volcanic eruptions, the oceans are thought to have been 70 meters (or 229 feet) higher.
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