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Water vapour:
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Responsible for 36%-70% of greenhouse effect.
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CO2:
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Responsible for 9-26%.
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CH4:
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Responsible for 4-9%.
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Ozone:
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Responsible for 3-7%
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Carbon Sinks:
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- Rocks/minerals, oil, gas, deep ocean (long term sinks)
- Atmosphere and Organic matter (medium term sinks) |
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Carbon Links:
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- Photosynthesis
- Respiration - Solubility Processes - Erosion - Human Combustion |
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Solubility Pump:
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- Ocean loses heat, means more CO2 can dissolve in the water.
- Ocean takes the CO2 from the atmosphere. - Increase in salt and D.I.C. makes the water heavy, and the CO2 slips beneath the warm water, away from the atmosphere. |
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Biological Pump:
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- CO2 is turne into organic matter, dropping down into the deep water where it is stored away and circulated
- This buffers us from the CO2 and greenhouse effect |
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Tundra:
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Warming could change it from a SINK TO A SOURCE.
- as the water table falls, increased rate of decomposition = increased rate of CO2. |
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Tropical Forests:
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Could act as a CARBON SINK because of enhance production.
- increase in leaf biomass = more CO2 is fixed/stored. |
