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Stronger winds lowering Antarctic Oceans’ CO2 absorption capacity: Experts

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Oceans – the sole saver of our planet from global warming – now seem to be going hostile in assisting the world in its battle against climate change and foreseen irreversible devastations.

Yes, Antarctica that used to gobble down a huge amount of the key greenhouse gas – carbon dioxide – is found to have lost some of its appetite for the gas.

This, for obvious reasons, has kicked up worries among scientists banking on the oceans to slow global warming, as been revealed by a new study.

The culprit behind this is perhaps the stronger winds sweeping over the seas, including parts of the Indian, Atlantic, and Pacific Oceans. These winds are causing the seas to absorb less carbon dioxide, the prime greenhouse gas leading to the devastating climate change.

Do you know, their surface waters can amazingly guzzle around 15 percent of all the carbon dioxide produced by industrial and automobile emissions?!

But, disappointingly the oceans are presently mopping up only about 10 percent of carbon dioxide! This is a considerable decrease in their absorption capacities.

What else? The culprits are still the same as ever that are leading to the planet’s destruction – global warming and the ozone hole over the Southern Pole.

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