Clearing a carbon catastrophe
October 16th, 2009 by Ari Daniel Shapiro | Filed in Ocean Gazing Podcast
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If you live in the USA, you release (on average) 122 pounds of CO2 into the air every day. Some of that is reentering our oceans.
Today we’re gonna focus on the surface of the ocean, that thin layer right where the sea touches the air above. Air with increasing amounts of carbon dioxide, a gas contributing to climate change. Chris Sabine from NOAA says, “Carbon dioxide is moving between the atmosphere and the ocean: across that interface. You know, through the surface of the ocean.”
Sabine’s passionate about the global climate crisis and its mounting impact on our oceans. He’s also the chair of the International Ocean Carbon Coordination Project, which is rallying scientists from all over the world and networking them, coordinating them, and maximizing their science. Stay tuned to find out how.
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Photographs
 Akihiko Murata in the South Pacific with the round-the-world Blue Earth Global Expedition 2003 cruise. Credit: H. Uchida. |
 Chris Sabine asks how long a coal train would be carrying the amount of carbon we produce every year. Credit: photo.net. |
Web Resources
The International Ocean Carbon Coordination Project website
The Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology website
Hear Chris Sabine talk about:
His efforts to reduce his own carbon footprint
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How he deals with the CO2 generated by scientists flying from all over the world to his meetings
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Tags: akihiko murata, carbon dioxide, carbon footprint, chris sabine, CO2, International Ocean Carbon Coordination Project, Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology, NOAA, ocean acidification
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Wow Ari, thank you for your interview with Chris Sabine. His metaphor of train/coal/carbon is great, a real eye opener.
Yeah, I really appreciated the way Sabine communicated that message with the train metaphor. It made it a lot more concrete (or should I say coal?) for me.