CO2 is rather quick in abandoning the atmosphere via dissolving in water. If that wasn’t so, the lakes in the mountains would be without life, but they aren’t. It’s CO2 that enables photosynthesis there, nothing else. The same CO2, which was not so long ago still in the air.
Dissolving CO2 in water is also a big thing in (Ant)Arctic oceans. A lot of life there is a witness of that.
Every cold raindrop has some CO2 captured.
So that story of “CO2 persisting in the atmosphere for centuries” is just wrong.
Dissolving CO2 in water is also a big thing in (Ant)Arctic oceans.
Ocean acidification is generally seen as one of the problems of climate change. While it might not be a problem in some bodies of water that otherwise would have little carbon, it’s a problem in the major oceans.
It’s a factor that’s fully accounted for in the climate models.
CO2 is rather quick in abandoning the atmosphere via dissolving in water. If that wasn’t so, the lakes in the mountains would be without life, but they aren’t. It’s CO2 that enables photosynthesis there, nothing else. The same CO2, which was not so long ago still in the air.
Dissolving CO2 in water is also a big thing in (Ant)Arctic oceans. A lot of life there is a witness of that.
Every cold raindrop has some CO2 captured.
So that story of “CO2 persisting in the atmosphere for centuries” is just wrong.
Ocean acidification is generally seen as one of the problems of climate change. While it might not be a problem in some bodies of water that otherwise would have little carbon, it’s a problem in the major oceans.
It’s a factor that’s fully accounted for in the climate models.
So, it does not remain in the atmosphere?
Some of it goes from the atmosphere into the oceans. Other parts go from the ocean into the atmosphere.
There are complex computer models that estimate all those flows.