Sentences with phrase «ocean sinks weaken»

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If so, she suspects that the liquid could eventually weaken the crust beneath the Atlantic Ocean near the continent's edge, causing it to break off from North America and sink back into the mantle.

The significant difference between the observed decrease of the CO2 sink estimated by the inversion (0.03 PgC / y per decade) and the expected increase due solely to rising atmospheric CO2 -LRB--0.05 PgC / y per decade) indicates that there has been a relative weakening of the Southern Ocean CO2 sink (0.08 PgC / y per decade) due to changes in other atmospheric forcing (winds, surface air temperature, and water fluxes).

Southern Ocean may not absorb more CO2 emissions Southern Ocean may not absorb more CO2 emissions Giant carbon sink is saturated mongabay.com May 17, 2007 Climate change has weakened one...

This would make the surface ocean less salty, which (along with the warming) makes the surface waters less dense, and less likely to sink, meaning that the AMOC would weaken or maybe collapse completely.

During such episodes, the net uptake of anthropogenic CO2 (sum of land and ocean sinks) is temporarily weakened.