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Plankton may not survive global warming with "devastating effects" (oceanographicmagazine.com)

submitted 7 months ago by poVoq@slrpnk.net to c/tidalpunk@slrpnk.net

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[–] humanspiral@lemmy.ca 6 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

Model based, but hard to understand why:

Ocean temperatures have risen significantly just in last 2 and 8 years. (Tropical Atlantic ocean is already consistent with what 2C of warming would bring)
Even with 2 or 4C or higher warming, there will be ocean that is less than 31C surface temperature.

Why can't plankton move to cooler waters?

[–] poVoq@slrpnk.net 12 points 7 months ago (1 children)

It will move to cooler water, that is explicitly mentioned in the paper this article is based on. But the reduction of habitat area as a result of that will significantly reduce the total plankton biomass.

[–] humanspiral@lemmy.ca 3 points 7 months ago

Thank you. Makes sense that more plankton can grow (capture CO2 as well) if more of the ocean is cool enough. Headline implies worse than lower plankton population.