Deep carbon science is rising.
Deep carbon science is rising. A Press release highlights publication of the Deep Carbon Observatory's midterm scientific report and participation at the 2014 AGU Fall Meeting, 15 - 19 December 2014 in San Francisco, USA.  Jesse Ausubel continues to advise the program and marvel at the abundance of methane and hydrogen.
The meeting will cover
deep carbon science in the context of time.
Not exact matches
The observations, courtesy of a new deepwater laser - and - camera system, could start to clarify a missing piece of biological roles in sequestering
carbon in the
deep ocean, researchers say May 3 in
Science Advances.
Fumio Inagaki from the Japan Agency for Marine - Earth
Science and Technology, who made the discovery, says the lake probably formed when
carbon dioxide seeped out through the ocean floor from a
deep - sea volcano and pooled under a blanket of solid, icelike CO2 hydrate and
deep - sea sediment.
There's a troubling section, however, in which Mann creates a flawed dichotomy, hailing a paper by James Hansen and Jeffrey Sachs of Columbia University (and others) pressing for
deep carbon cuts and criticizing a peer, * Ken Caldeira of the Carnegie Institution, for complaining that the paper failed the Stephen Schneider / Gavin Schmidt test for distinguishing between the «is» of
science and the «ought» determined by individual feelings about the state of the world and how to shape it.
A robust
carbon cap or tax should put the economy on a trajectory toward the
science - based
deep cuts in emissions required to limit some of the worst impacts of climate change.
But the new study, detailed in the April 27 issue of the journal
Science, finds that not all of this
carbon makes it past the region of the ocean known as the mesopelagic or «the twilight zone» — roughly 300 to 3,000 feet below the surface where there isn't enough light for photosynthesis — which acts as a gateway to the
deep ocean below.