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Resources
Carbon Dioxide Capture and Storage
Ingtergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Special Report, 2005 - Bert Metz, Ogunlade Davidson, Heleen de Coninck, Manuela Loos and Leo Meyer (Eds.)
http://www.ipcc.ch/publications_and_data/publications_and_data_reports_carbon_dioxide.htm
Click here for Chapter 6: Ocean Storage (PDF)
Carbon Dioxide in the Ocean and Atmosphere
The oceans play an important role in regulating the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere because CO2 can move quickly into and out of the oceans...Of the three places where carbon is stored—atmosphere, oceans, and land biosphere—approximately 93 percent of the CO2 is found in the oceans...
http://www.waterencyclopedia.com/Bi-Ca/Carbon-Dioxide-in-the-Ocean-and-Atmosphere.html
CO2 Emissions Harm Ocean's Ability to Absorb Carbon
Burning the Earth's remaining fossil resources without technology to capture the carbon they contain could subject the planet to five times as much extra heating from the greenhouse effect as it has already experienced, according to new research...
Greenhouse Effect
Credit: Philippe Rekacewicz, UNEP/GRID-Arendal
News: The Ocean and CO2 Emissions
One of the world's most important carbon sinks has stopped behaving as expected. Cause for concern? (June 23, 2008, Corinne Le Quéré)
Ships can Monitor the Ocean's Carbon Sink
The oceans can take up carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and counter the damaging effects of rising emissions - but to what extent? Now, a group of scientists has devised a cheap and precise way to monitor exactly how much carbon the oceans are able to store. (December 4, 2009, Sara Coelho)
Ice Retreat Opens New Shores for Cabon Storage
Ice melting in Antarctica has opened a new area of sea as big as Wales, where tiny marine plants called phytoplankton can bloom and absorb extra carbon from the atmosphere. But before we open the champagne, this positive effect does not offset the damage done by carbon emissions. (9 November 2009, Sara Coelho)
The Causes of Global Climate Change
Pew Center on Global Climate Change Science Brief #1 (PDF), August 2008
http://www.pewclimate.org/docUploads/global-warming-science-brief-august08.pdf
The Human Perturbation of the Carbon Cycle
"The carbon cycle is closely linked to the climate system and is influenced by the growing human population and associated demands for resources, especially for fossil-fuel energy and land. The rate of change in atmospheric CO2 reflects the balance between carbon emissions from human activities and the dynamics of a number of terrestrial and ocean processes that remove or emit CO2. The long-term evolution of this balance will largely determine the speed and magnitude of humaninduced climate change and the mitigation requirements to stabilize atmospheric CO2 concentrations at any given level."
UNESCO-SCOPE -UNEP Policy Brief n°10: Published November 25, 2009