Current estimates of the CO₂ from the atmosphere that disappears in the ocean, commonly referred to as the ocean CO₂ sink, suggests that around 25% of all human CO₂ emissions have been taken up by the oceans.

In our recent journal paper in Nature Geoscience, we show that a thin layer at the ocean surface called the "ocean skin," a layer thinner than a human hair, increases this ocean CO₂ uptake by about 7%. That sounds like a small difference, but this additional uptake is equivalent to the CO₂ absorbed by the entire Amazon rainforest each year.

https://phys.org/news/2024-11-ocean-surface-absorbs-carbon-dioxide.html
@amerika people massively underestimate area and volume for some reason, i think there was some biological reason, same reason people think the same volume of a drink is more in a taller container vs wider
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@maija @amerika it's causing ocean acidification which causes all arthropods to have brittle exoskeletons and they all die.

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@Jazzy_Butts @amerika that sucks :(
there are way too many people and science only made such matters worse. chemical fertilizers and shit
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