• Daryl76679@lemmy.ml
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    2 months ago

    Which is honestly a disservice to trees because they do so many other things like cool the landscape, hold soil, and provide habitat

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    It’s more like 50-60% and it depends on who’s doing the breathing - the vast majority of O2 generated by phytoplankton doesn’t become atmospheric O2 - it stays in the ocean. So yeah, us terrestrials would see terrestrial 02 producers as our glam rock stars.

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      2 months ago

      Wouldn’t the ocean drain oxygen produced by trees if phytoplankton didn’t exist? It seems to me that both move oxygen into the same system, earth.

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        If phytoplankton didn’t exist, the things removing pure 02 from the ocean through respiration would die. In which case, the ocean would reach O2 solubility equilibrium at a fraction of a percent of atmospheric O2 and would stop uptaking it because there’s nothing left to continue converting it to CO2.

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    2 months ago

    Shallow underwater breath, since phytoplankton require sunlight. Less sunlight can penetrate into deeper water

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    2 months ago

    Correct, but phytoplankton also is dying because global and ocean warming.

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    2 months ago

    The world is full of dummies, want to cut CO2 go after china and india. EVs will do fuck all, photovoltaic, can you recycle them whats the carbon cost to make them…

    crickets

    Huk a durk I drive a byd and it carbon neutral, lol. ITS MADE OF PLASTIC.