PLoS One August 2010 PMID 20865156

The impact of whaling on the ocean carbon cycle: why bigger was better.

Andrew J Pershing, Line B Christensen, Nicholas R Record, Graham D Sherwood, Peter B Stetson

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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.

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Most discussions strongly support the idea that whales play a crucial role in carbon sequestration and that their conservation benefits the environment significantly.

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Many discussions include references to scientific studies, comparisons with other carbon sinks, and calls for action, showing deep involvement and thoughtful analysis.

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Participants believe emphasizing whale conservation can influence climate change mitigation strategies, highlighting their perception of the article’s high potential for societal impact.

Abstract in brief

  • 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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Nicholas D. Carter
@NicholasDCarter · X

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

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Ryan Orbuch
@orbuch · X

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

Mar 2, 2020 · 29 likes · 4 shares · 15,647 followers View post →
Cristian Moyano
@_CristianMoyano · X

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

Jul 9, 2022 · 22 likes · 4 shares · 1,406 followers View post →
OQVc_Faria
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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

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Ann Marie Carlton, Ph.D., P.E.
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Quite literally, save the whales!

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Yegar
@CuriousYegar · X

RT @NicholasDCarter: People often see sea life as low-carbon seafood. By countless endangered whales are getting entangled, especially fr…

Nov 5, 2022 · 15 shares · 18 followers View post →
BrynCocks
@bryanedwardcox · X

RT @NicholasDCarter: People often see sea life as low-carbon seafood. By countless endangered whales are getting entangled, especially fr…

Nov 5, 2022 · 15 shares · 779 followers View post →
©anines tho™ ᕕ( ᐛ )ᕗ
@ShortnBluntTho · X

RT @NicholasDCarter: People often see sea life as low-carbon seafood. By countless endangered whales are getting entangled, especially fr…

Nov 5, 2022 · 15 shares · 5,942 followers View post →
ZaxxonGalaxian
@ZaxxonGalaxian · X

RT @NicholasDCarter: People often see sea life as low-carbon seafood. By countless endangered whales are getting entangled, especially fr…

Nov 5, 2022 · 15 shares · 2,215 followers View post →
2_thenthdegree
@2_thenthdegree · X

RT @NicholasDCarter: People often see sea life as low-carbon seafood. By countless endangered whales are getting entangled, especially fr…

Nov 5, 2022 · 15 shares · 441 followers View post →
DiscGolf Sentientist
@hipptripp · X

RT @NicholasDCarter: People often see sea life as low-carbon seafood. By countless endangered whales are getting entangled, especially fr…

Nov 5, 2022 · 15 shares · 297 followers View post →
Nicholas D. Carter
@NicholasDCarter · X

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

Nov 5, 2022 · 38 likes · 15 shares · 6,809 followers View post →
Miguel Pacheco
@_miguel_pacheco · X

#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

Aug 19, 2022 · 1 like · 156 followers View post →
Sergio Vargas Mora
@sergiovarmo · X

RT @_CristianMoyano: También es clave el rewilding marino. El fitoplancton captura gigatoneladas de CO2 al año. Los cetáceos ayudan a ferti…

Jul 10, 2022 · 4 shares · 866 followers View post →
OdiN
@37f4b6ea012244e · X

RT @_CristianMoyano: También es clave el rewilding marino. El fitoplancton captura gigatoneladas de CO2 al año. Los cetáceos ayudan a ferti…

Jul 9, 2022 · 4 shares · 1,725 followers View post →
Mayra
@Mayra_J76 · X

RT @_CristianMoyano: También es clave el rewilding marino. El fitoplancton captura gigatoneladas de CO2 al año. Los cetáceos ayudan a ferti…

Jul 9, 2022 · 4 shares · 1,569 followers View post →
Marta Tafalla
@TafallaMarta · X

RT @_CristianMoyano: También es clave el rewilding marino. El fitoplancton captura gigatoneladas de CO2 al año. Los cetáceos ayudan a ferti…

Jul 9, 2022 · 4 shares · 13,135 followers View post →
Cristian Moyano
@_CristianMoyano · X

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

Jul 9, 2022 · 22 likes · 4 shares · 1,406 followers View post →
Douglas Wallace
@DougieOcean · X

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

Apr 29, 2022 · 1 like · 258 followers View post →
OQVc_Faria
@OQVc_Faria · X

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

Feb 20, 2022 · 15 likes · 1 share · 12,747 followers View post →
Santiago Benitez-Vieyra
@santiagombv1 · X

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

Nov 20, 2021 · 3 likes · 902 followers View post →
John Aitchison
@JohnAitchison1 · X

@NatureScotCEO @ChiefExecCCC https://t.co/pq5dJDawDZ

Nov 9, 2021 · 10,585 followers View post →
Carbon Herald
@CarbonHerald · X

@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

Nov 2, 2021 · 1 like · 2,217 followers View post →
Joshua (he/him)
@joshuastehr · X

"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

Nov 1, 2021 · 222 followers View post →
˚♡⋆mimi ˚♡⋆。☆∴
@mimi10v3 · X

@KenTremendous @danielsethlewis Save the whales https://t.co/a8Fpa8Q8ri

Oct 29, 2021 · 13,091 followers View post →
Miranda Paley, PhD
@paleymir · X

RT @amgcarlton: Quite literally, save the whales!

Oct 28, 2021 · 2 shares · 1,287 followers View post →
James Bullock
@jbprime · X

RT @amgcarlton: Quite literally, save the whales!

Oct 28, 2021 · 2 shares · 6,011 followers View post →
Ann Marie Carlton, Ph.D., P.E.
@amgcarlton · X

Quite literally, save the whales!

Oct 28, 2021 · 11 likes · 2 shares · 2,703 followers View post →
sharonlevinson
@Sharonlevinson2 · X

בעל חיים מרהיב

Jun 2, 2021 · 8 likes · 1 share · 1,766 followers View post →
Daniel Plazas Jiménez | plazasjimenezd.bsky.social
@Dplazas · X

RT @vsbuffalo: Whaling removed a lot of carbon, in the form of whales, from our oceans. And in terms of carbon storage, "marine vertebrates…

Apr 28, 2021 · 7 shares · 118 followers View post →
priya joseph
@ayirpelle · X

RT @vsbuffalo: Whaling removed a lot of carbon, in the form of whales, from our oceans. And in terms of carbon storage, "marine vertebrates…

Apr 28, 2021 · 7 shares · 4,969 followers View post →
Concepto Verde
@Conceptoverde · X

RESEARCH ARTICLE: "The Impact of Whaling on the Ocean Carbon Cycle: Why Bigger Was Better" #OceanLife #carboncapture #carbonemissions https://t.co/B6DW9KFnmV

Apr 27, 2021 · 2,167 followers View post →
Simon J Greenhill
@SimonJGreenhill · X

RT @vsbuffalo: Whaling removed a lot of carbon, in the form of whales, from our oceans. And in terms of carbon storage, "marine vertebrates…

Apr 27, 2021 · 7 shares · 3,535 followers View post →
Sᴡᴀɪɴ
@TheLiverPunch · X

RT @vsbuffalo: Whaling removed a lot of carbon, in the form of whales, from our oceans. And in terms of carbon storage, "marine vertebrates…

Apr 27, 2021 · 7 shares · 1,695 followers View post →
bob's burgers urbanist
@yhdistyminen · X

RT @vsbuffalo: Whaling removed a lot of carbon, in the form of whales, from our oceans. And in terms of carbon storage, "marine vertebrates…

Apr 27, 2021 · 7 shares · 19,032 followers View post →
Tim McCallum
@mistermac2008 · X

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

Mar 20, 2021 · 873 followers View post →
John Englart EAM
@takvera · X

@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

Jan 4, 2021 · 5,739 followers View post →
Cetacean Team
@TeamCetacean · X

@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

Nov 6, 2020 · 1 like · 1,624 followers View post →
Cedric Knight
@Cedders68 · X

@ayanaeliza @themadstone @daveregrets I'm sceptical of the

Aug 4, 2020 · 1,242 followers View post →
zombiekadse
@duroplastisch · X

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…

Mar 2, 2020 · 4 shares · 70 followers View post →
Parth Ahya
@Parthion · X

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…

Mar 2, 2020 · 4 shares · 1,674 followers View post →
Ryan Orbuch
@orbuch · X

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

Mar 2, 2020 · 29 likes · 4 shares · 15,647 followers View post →
E. Sally Chang, PhD
@esallychang · X

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…

Feb 20, 2020 · 1 share · 830 followers View post →
Alana Alexander
@laninsky · X

@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).

Feb 19, 2020 · 1 like · 1 share · 715 followers View post →
Marion
@MarionAurat · X

RT @GaelMariani: @Juliette__L @OceanoMonaco @Juliette__L Yes ! Sadly whale populations must be rebuild if the solution is to be effective.…

Nov 27, 2019 · 1 share · 156 followers View post →
Gaël Mariani
@GaelMariani · X

@Juliette__L @OceanoMonaco @Juliette__L Yes ! Sadly whale populations must be rebuild if the solution is to be effective. https://t.co/wgHfMWhJTr

Nov 27, 2019 · 1 share · 143 followers View post →
Fishience
@jskawe · X

RT @SeascapeScience: @MarkPayneAtWork @Sci_Officer Thinking back to our 2010 paper... Roughly 10^7 tons C in storage (within the large bale…

Nov 27, 2019 · 1 share · 412 followers View post →
Nick Record
@SeascapeScience · X

@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

Nov 26, 2019 · 1 share · 834 followers View post →
Weknowdis
@rappolee · X

@novapbs @washingtonpost https://t.co/5hmsFQsqln My fav Whale Carbon cycle paper

Nov 18, 2019 · 581 followers View post →
Dr Ellen Coombs
@EllenCoombs · X

@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!)

Oct 28, 2019 · 2 likes · 2,603 followers View post →
Maureen Greenbaum
@sumware · X

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

Oct 14, 2019 · 662 followers View post →
Michael Le Page
@mjflepage · X

@IMFNews And they're not wrong: https://t.co/ie3Pg3Kzp0

Sep 17, 2019 · 1 like · 3,500 followers View post →
David N. Thomas
@dnthomas01.bsky.social · Bluesky

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 #

May 7, 2019 View post →
Michael Le Page
@mjflepage.bsky.social · Bluesky

Why saving the whales will help save us http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0012444 (2010 study I missed) via @BahaNick

May 14, 2014 View post →