People often see sea life as low-carbon seafood. By countless endangered whales are getting entangled, especially from lobster & crab fishing. This prevents restoration of whale populations that would store the carbon equivalent of 110,000ha of forest: https://t.co/QFNi7dZd31 https://t.co/2VXU8cEXAh
The impact of whaling on the ocean carbon cycle: why bigger was better.
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Overall, the discussions reflect strong agreement on whales' significant role in climate regulation, with many examples citing scientific studies (e.g., Roman et al. 2014, Pershing et al. 2010) and emphasizing the importance of rebuilding whale populations to enhance carbon storage; the tone and choice of words, such as 'crucial', 'significant', and calls to 'save the whales,' underscore their high impact and deep engagement with the environmental implications of the research.
Most discussions strongly support the idea that whales play a crucial role in carbon sequestration and that their conservation benefits the environment significantly.
The posts demonstrate high curiosity and concern about the scientific evidence and the ecological importance of whales, indicating a high level of engagement with the topic.
Many discussions include references to scientific studies, comparisons with other carbon sinks, and calls for action, showing deep involvement and thoughtful analysis.
Participants believe emphasizing whale conservation can influence climate change mitigation strategies, highlighting their perception of the article’s high potential for societal impact.
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- Human activities like whaling and industrial fishing have drastically reduced large marine animals such as whales, which has negatively impacted the ocean's ability to store carbon.
- Large baleen whales used to store a significant amount of carbon, but their populations have decreased, leading to a loss of carbon storage capacity, although some smaller species have partially compensated for this loss.
- Rebuilding whale populations could enhance the ocean's carbon sequestration by increasing the amount of carbon exported to deep sea environments, making whale conservation an effective strategy for carbon management comparable to other methods like ocean iron fertilization.]
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Most liked on X and BlueskyYeah yeah I know we need to do gigatons of carbon storage But if anyone’s looking for an easy 160 kilotons/yr, how about baleen whales? https://t.co/GtuZ40Hwaq https://t.co/Bbdv7xq9Ua
También es clave el rewilding marino. El fitoplancton captura gigatoneladas de CO2 al año. Los cetáceos ayudan a fertilizar el océano gracias a su dieta, sus movimientos y su gran tamaño
Defendamos as baleias! Artigos científicos citados: Roman et al. 2014: https://t.co/mQFPZRXYKn Pershing et al. 2010: https://t.co/vfXgLkM5s4 Lavery et al. 2010: https://t.co/E71B5wgJZF 16/16
Quite literally, save the whales!
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Whales and Bears: Strategies for Megafauna Recovery in the Anthropocene
While the rest of the world's megafauna are still foundering in the anthropocene era these two big animals have used little animal strategies to bounce back. Understanding their methods offers insights into conservation…
Why Sharks Are Important
Baleen Whales and Climate Change: Evolution and Ocean Dynamics Impact
Mysticeti, or baleen whales, independently evolved enormous sizes during the Plio-Pleistocene epoch, driven by changes in ocean dynamics and ecological factors. Increased seasonal upwelling and prey availability played…
O Doc claramente superior nos dois casos >>>>>>>>>>
Paramount's wallet might be happy, but our faith in Hollywood's integrity just took a hit.
the best type of flashmob
I have literally done nothing in this thread except shit on liberals
Wild or par for the course?
Moreover, seemingly by writers who come across as if they'd be lucky if they could be the Sid Vicious of triangle players.
冬でも冷房がついてないと眠れなくて寒いから電気毛布使うの
اکانت اینستاگرامم رو غیرفعال کردم و مامانم حالا به جای فوروارد مطالب خیلی مهم! دانلودشون میکنه و تو واتس اپ میفرسته! قربونت برم ننه جونم
Gonna do this TMI tuesday thing. Ask me stuff if ya like
This timeline keeps finding surprising new ways to be terrible.
This outfit slaps!
uuuauzgaggaa I WISH I WAS LOADED WITH MONEY I WANT TO GET MY BOYS 3D PRINTED SO BAAAAAADDDDDD
“Theft of Services” is a crime. Their waistlines might benefit from a little jail time and community service…idk, like helping to serve food at a local shelter.
With a pipeline to Russia.
Goodmorning dev
And that gets suggested all the time. And if you don't get appropriate care it's "what did you do?", never "Why doesn't that doctor listen to women?" It's a frustrating life.
丁度ハリーポッター観てたから……
I should learn how to write Linear B.
Yes. Look, lawyers have been disciplined for hallucinations in briefs. Why would I want to read news written by something like that?
Therapy today. Pray for me
슬슬 추워지니까 대방어 먹고 싶다
Check out this preview of next week’s Buddy Bate! This week my regular Daddy’s boy and I connect after a few weeks where we couldn’t get our timing right. He’s the perfect mix of beautiful man, show-off, and verbal pig that I can’t resist! Learn more at the JFF link below:
There is no warrant to "retain faith in judicial system."
たまに標本を干してもいない部屋で、何も漏れたりしてないのにサメの匂いが急に香ってくることがある。 あれは一体何なんだろう。まあサメなんだろうけど…。 もしかして見えてないだけでサメいるのか?
#ひよこのZA デデンネを得たからには、デデンネコーデを組まねばならぬ
Next.. bulldozers head for the Lincoln Memorial...
Yesssiiir..! Nice one
Me encanta! TóElCuadro (que me ha costado ver el texto
Baseball, huh?
Did you remember to put the bins out? #JustChecking
どうかこの祈りが呪いとなり一生私たちを縛り付けるものでありますように
Tom Homan and the Case of the Missing Fifty Thousand
Haha, still waking up here.
Kpop really needs to be also categorised by the regular genres the absolute whiplash I got going from The Rose to Stray Kids
Increíble como un kilo de cocido no me hace efecto pero un poco de pan con chocolate me deja en la cama agonizando.
not dumb at all. yes, batters swing at sliders out of the zone all the time. But to strike out when you saw exactly zero strikes ... that's a lot rarer.
Thanks so much! Always great to see you and I so appreciate your support
あああああグラブルちゃんんんハンズでそんなフェードラッヘメンバーのアクスタやら販売してるじゃないですかああああちょっとまってえええ ラモラックおるやん!ジークさんもおるやん! しかしガウェインとフロレンスお姉様おらんの納得いかんのんだけど。
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Top Republicans Stand by President's Poop Video - Mother Jones
Oh we’ll often add many additional descriptors as well. When it comes down to a simple exclamation of “Dickhead!!”, the whole family knows who we’re 99% likely to be referencing. I look forward to the day when I can refer to the WH occupant as simply just, “The President”, again.
酔っぱらっても、本当に大好きなごゆの話をしないの偉すぎ、人間できすぎてる
I can’t remember a time when all of our political leaders were held in such low regard by the public. All of them. It surely can’t be that they are all incredibly bad in comparison to their historical predecessors. So is it a product of a 24/7 news cycle and so much disinformation on social media?
オアシスの来日公演のオープニングアクトがアジカンなのになぜ僕はチケットを持っていないのでしょうか
New builds with no chimneys where I'm living now, the air is SO much cleaner than our old terraced street with all the old house with fireplaces. Everything stank of wood smoke all winter.
LOOOOOL I’m so glad to hear, I’m really enjoying it so far
Eres increíble muchas gracias cariño
He lost me at stewardship and website. Exactly what you would expect from NYT. Idiocy in furtherance of the interests of the powerful.
Good morning and happy Tuesday,Mattie! ☕️☀️
very thankful for the movement he built but he is extremely credulous
Is Mike an Epstein client?
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What are these people going to do after Trump's gone; "hopefully insane asylum or impeached before the midterms"! Please No Nixon pardons; "it's time to reset the failed time continuum", that's what started the GOP Party and US down this road many years ago; "examples of accountability matters"!
Så jeg har en særlig soft spot for eldre kvinner med geiter da, er det jeg prøver å si. Måtte hulkegråte litt her.
♪ #nowplaying Breakdown - Handsome Boy Modeling School (White people - 2004) https://www.radiofrance.fr/fip
1.Hypocrite, the cross isn't something u wear. It's a life self sacrifice. Denying ur way and being submissive to the ways of Jesus. She sure ignored the Jesus' cross when she had sex out of marriage and became pregnant. Heb 13:4 bed(marriage bed)is undefiled but whoremongers God Will judge. God
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♪ #nowplaying Breakdown - Handsome Boy Modeling School (White people - 2004) https://www.radiofrance.fr/fip
♪ #nowplaying Breakdown - Handsome Boy Modeling School (White people - 2004) https://www.radiofrance.fr/fip
What a great metaphor for what a small, cruel man is doing to this country.
(オプチャ)なんかほんと…きもかったりこわかったらごめんね……完全に趣味というかそうせざるをえないからやってしまうというか…
Love it!
@GOP @SenateGOP @HouseGOP Using #TrumpsGovernmentShutdown as a distraction, America knows what you are hiding! @SpeakerJohnson protecting Pedos! www.usatoday.com/story/news/n...
Nope...nothing is better than such perfection gorgeous
#BTC Drop : aucun catalyseur majeur identifié Le marché du #Bitcoin et des #crypto reste volatil. Lire la suite: https://blockzhub.io/news/68f78853a8e70441a3c7ae80?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=news_share
Vc pedindo desculpas e nois soltando foguete de alegria
(...)
Hmm, the internet makes me think that wasn't from Baldwin but instead is from Robert Jones Jr
We need everyone with a blue check to copy and paste “General Strike Now!”
Or even more on the nose, Trump had a reality show so if you enjoy any reality show such as Survivor, Big Brother, Amazing Race, The Challenge or any other one, you might as well put on your MAGA hat. No & thinking so makes YOU sound uneducated.
Kkkrusty Gnome is such a Krazy Kluster Kunt... Think i will make her a new rhyme today
Those guys buy Incel Caminos these days.
We have to take it down to his mental and emotional IQ in order to really understand his "common sense." We are working at a 2-year-old-potty-training-poop-fascination stage these days.
A veru im aj, veru im aj...
他の垢でいいねしたら速攻でフォローされるし気づいてないんやろな爆笑
it was the 1860's, it was a crazy time
Ty James x
*bukkake*
2.considers sex out of marriage as whoremongering. These hypocrites violate God's laws and think they're so special that God will excuse thr sins. God won't unless one repents and live according to his words. Lying, supporting evil acts by DT disqualifies u frm bring a Christian
Just because I love your bio ma’am! My peeps especially the foul mouth and holding EVERYONE accountable regardless of ideology.
I need to start posting some "Select" Videos over here instead of my main & yes, I may have just given away the mystery, but eh... ...doesn't mean I can be reckless through! Hindsight be a great educator! as is my Stomach after reading the Lyrics of that Song!!! *Listens to it Growling away*
Japan has pitching and home run hitting and that’s just one guy
グランプリではなく審査員特別賞か
If this guy was smart he would have at the very least realized it was a Nazi tattoo and then turned it into a Maine Black Bears hockey tattoo to try and save some face.
I can’t keep up with all the criminal activity
So close yet so far away.
Disgraceful!
it’s an insanely post-9/11 show
Wishing you a terrific day as well my friend.
I've finally tried the #Edinburgh cafe serving Ukrainian food (The Square) over the weekend. Food was great, but the experience was impacted by two Russian blokes loudly chatting in Russian and also talking with the waiters in Russian only. Don't they understand what is happening in #Ukraine?
Scarlet and Violet really was jus the competitive generation
Hoy tengo cita conmigo mismo, que hay que hacerlo de vez en cuando.
@TheStonesEG @NOAA Killing off whales is like cutting down trees. https://t.co/RBwYJZZAzw
@repmorgan @GreenOceansRI Killing whales reduces carbon the same as cutting down trees, this is part of the Left's climate change agenda. https://t.co/RBwYJZZAzw
@hausfath @ayanaeliza It actually is confusing when there are papers about the contribution of sinking whales to carbon sequestration... wonder how the authors of papers like this cinsider your paper to be helping... https://t.co/8fkQzHFEWp
FUENTES: https://t.co/tERu44BoMc https://t.co/Xcp9kaasc9 #ballenas #carbono #almacendecarbono #sumidero #cambioclimatico #fernandovalladares #lasaluddelahumanidad
Det har længe været kendt, at hvaler har stor betydning for havets kulstofscyklus. Det kan man blandt andet læse i denne peer-reviewet artikel fra 2010 https://t.co/GTc2i02Xmx I dette studie er fokus på selve hvalernes kadaver, hvor de regner et potentiale på sølle 160ktonCO₂/år
RT @NicholasDCarter: People often see sea life as low-carbon seafood. By countless endangered whales are getting entangled, especially fr…
RT @NicholasDCarter: People often see sea life as low-carbon seafood. By countless endangered whales are getting entangled, especially fr…
RT @NicholasDCarter: People often see sea life as low-carbon seafood. By countless endangered whales are getting entangled, especially fr…
RT @NicholasDCarter: People often see sea life as low-carbon seafood. By countless endangered whales are getting entangled, especially fr…
RT @NicholasDCarter: People often see sea life as low-carbon seafood. By countless endangered whales are getting entangled, especially fr…
RT @NicholasDCarter: People often see sea life as low-carbon seafood. By countless endangered whales are getting entangled, especially fr…
RT @NicholasDCarter: People often see sea life as low-carbon seafood. By countless endangered whales are getting entangled, especially fr…
RT @NicholasDCarter: People often see sea life as low-carbon seafood. By countless endangered whales are getting entangled, especially fr…
RT @NicholasDCarter: People often see sea life as low-carbon seafood. By countless endangered whales are getting entangled, especially fr…
RT @NicholasDCarter: People often see sea life as low-carbon seafood. By countless endangered whales are getting entangled, especially fr…
RT @NicholasDCarter: People often see sea life as low-carbon seafood. By countless endangered whales are getting entangled, especially fr…
RT @NicholasDCarter: People often see sea life as low-carbon seafood. By countless endangered whales are getting entangled, especially fr…
People often see sea life as low-carbon seafood. By countless endangered whales are getting entangled, especially from lobster & crab fishing. This prevents restoration of whale populations that would store the carbon equivalent of 110,000ha of forest: https://t.co/QFNi7dZd31 https://t.co/2VXU8cEXAh
#ecosystemservices Not just trees: Forest elephants in the Congo Basin help sequester billions of tons of carbon https://t.co/EbtiA6PoPO Also Whales as carbon sinks https://t.co/vW35pskAIK
RT @_CristianMoyano: También es clave el rewilding marino. El fitoplancton captura gigatoneladas de CO2 al año. Los cetáceos ayudan a ferti…
RT @_CristianMoyano: También es clave el rewilding marino. El fitoplancton captura gigatoneladas de CO2 al año. Los cetáceos ayudan a ferti…
RT @_CristianMoyano: También es clave el rewilding marino. El fitoplancton captura gigatoneladas de CO2 al año. Los cetáceos ayudan a ferti…
RT @_CristianMoyano: También es clave el rewilding marino. El fitoplancton captura gigatoneladas de CO2 al año. Los cetáceos ayudan a ferti…
También es clave el rewilding marino. El fitoplancton captura gigatoneladas de CO2 al año. Los cetáceos ayudan a fertilizar el océano gracias a su dieta, sus movimientos y su gran tamaño
There are a remarkable number of studies that lump marine mammals with other large marine animals when calculating ocean carbon storage. This one for example: https://t.co/5rhTrAjlWn
Defendamos as baleias! Artigos científicos citados: Roman et al. 2014: https://t.co/mQFPZRXYKn Pershing et al. 2010: https://t.co/vfXgLkM5s4 Lavery et al. 2010: https://t.co/E71B5wgJZF 16/16
Extra: la base científica no está tan mal aunque no es mi especialidad. Restaurar la población de ballenas almacenaría C en sus cuerpos, en sus cadáveres que acaban en el fondo (del mar, no del FMI) y fertiliza el océano https://t.co/FJJ68t9NdN
@NatureScotCEO @ChiefExecCCC https://t.co/pq5dJDawDZ
@ClonalAntibody @phyconomy @ClonalAntibody and @phyconomy thanks for taking the time to clarify this for us. We have now corrected the numbers for carbon that whales would have sunk to the ocean floor to "between 190,000 to 1.9 million tonnes per year" based on this paper https://t.co/OXA1MSaehO
"Fishing and whaling have altered the ocean's ability to sequester carbon. Rebuilding populations of fish and whales would be comparable to other carbon management schemes, like ocean iron fertilization." #SystemsThinking #CarbonCapture https://t.co/Fp7MaKwI2a
@KenTremendous @danielsethlewis Save the whales https://t.co/a8Fpa8Q8ri
RT @amgcarlton: Quite literally, save the whales!
RT @amgcarlton: Quite literally, save the whales!
Quite literally, save the whales!
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RT @vsbuffalo: Whaling removed a lot of carbon, in the form of whales, from our oceans. And in terms of carbon storage, "marine vertebrates…
RT @vsbuffalo: Whaling removed a lot of carbon, in the form of whales, from our oceans. And in terms of carbon storage, "marine vertebrates…
RESEARCH ARTICLE: "The Impact of Whaling on the Ocean Carbon Cycle: Why Bigger Was Better" #OceanLife #carboncapture #carbonemissions https://t.co/B6DW9KFnmV
RT @vsbuffalo: Whaling removed a lot of carbon, in the form of whales, from our oceans. And in terms of carbon storage, "marine vertebrates…
RT @vsbuffalo: Whaling removed a lot of carbon, in the form of whales, from our oceans. And in terms of carbon storage, "marine vertebrates…
RT @vsbuffalo: Whaling removed a lot of carbon, in the form of whales, from our oceans. And in terms of carbon storage, "marine vertebrates…
Hey @beeple The world needs an #Everydays depicting that baleen whales can resolve the #ClimateCrisis There is so much #science on this, but not nearly enough awareness
@jeremybloom @DanBacher Wonderful to see, ocean carbon sequestration #climateaction: "whales ... can efficiently export carbon from the surface waters to the deep sea ... rebuilding whale populations would remove 1.6×105 tons of carbon each year through sinking whale carcasses" https://t.co/ZJt4quAZs2
@WhaleTalesOrg The global pre-whaling population of approximately 2.5 million great whales would have exported nearly 210,000 tons of carbon per year to the deep sea through Deadfall Carbon. That’s equivalent to taking roughly 150,000 cars off the road each year. https://t.co/pM6Wo2bxsC
@ayanaeliza @themadstone @daveregrets I'm sceptical of the
RT @orbuch: Yeah yeah I know we need to do gigatons of carbon storage But if anyone’s looking for an easy 160 kilotons/yr, how about bale…
RT @orbuch: Yeah yeah I know we need to do gigatons of carbon storage But if anyone’s looking for an easy 160 kilotons/yr, how about bale…
Yeah yeah I know we need to do gigatons of carbon storage But if anyone’s looking for an easy 160 kilotons/yr, how about baleen whales? https://t.co/GtuZ40Hwaq https://t.co/Bbdv7xq9Ua
RT @laninsky: @esallychang Actually that was it - I have no further facts your honour (was just going to point to whales being good for liv…
@esallychang Actually that was it - I have no further facts your honour (was just going to point to whales being good for liveable climates, and us killing a ton of them is probably another way humans contributed to climate change: https://t.co/MeXHq3Jykp).
RT @GaelMariani: @Juliette__L @OceanoMonaco @Juliette__L Yes ! Sadly whale populations must be rebuild if the solution is to be effective.…
@Juliette__L @OceanoMonaco @Juliette__L Yes ! Sadly whale populations must be rebuild if the solution is to be effective. https://t.co/wgHfMWhJTr
RT @SeascapeScience: @MarkPayneAtWork @Sci_Officer Thinking back to our 2010 paper... Roughly 10^7 tons C in storage (within the large bale…
@MarkPayneAtWork @Sci_Officer Thinking back to our 2010 paper... Roughly 10^7 tons C in storage (within the large baleen whale pops) and about 10^5 tons C per year in sinking. Small compared to the whole problem, but comparable to other sink schemes. https://t.co/YGLafvCNcr
@novapbs @washingtonpost https://t.co/5hmsFQsqln My fav Whale Carbon cycle paper
@stevoallain There are a couple of papers which look at the effects of the slaughter of around '3 million whales' in the last century. These focus on the baleen whales and the effects this had on carbon sequestration: https://t.co/DrC7aI6Dlf (hopefully the link works but let me know if not!)
we all share is earth. Let's keep it beautiful and livable for all of us #whales & people and ...Here are the facts https://t.co/68DsWz356r https://t.co/GtMHYGf7K2
@IMFNews And they're not wrong: https://t.co/ie3Pg3Kzp0
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0012444 https://www.pacificwhale.org/2017/05/17/fact-of-the-week-whales-play-a-crucial-role-in-the-carbon-cycle/ @PacificWhale #marinescience #WHALES #marinebiology #
Why saving the whales will help save us http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0012444 (2010 study I missed) via @BahaNick
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