Please enable JavaScript.
Coggle requires JavaScript to display documents.
Carbon stored in ice, oceans and the biosphere (Biosphere (rainforest…
Carbon stored in ice, oceans and the biosphere
Ice (glacial retreat)
Organic carbon stored in glaciers, as glacial retreat occurs due to melting of ice, the carbon is released into the atmosphere
More carbon released into the atmosphere, more heat trapped in the earth's atmosphere
-
Impacts the availability of fresh water for domestic and irrigation (Contain 70% of earths fresh water supply)
-
Glaciers are biologically labile, especially to organic microbes
Oceans (acidification)
Aftermath 1: Sea creatures with shells are weakened as they would spend more time on gathering carbonate ions (confused with hydrogen ions) than finding food; in worse cases shell can dissolve!!
They grow less due to a lack of nutrition, so predators eating them grow less as well.
Creatures caught from fishing will be smaller and humanity will have to adapt to having less nutrition from eating seafood
-
-
pH levels
Impact sections
Impacts shallower waters instead of deep waters, since the top layer is where the ocean absorbs the carbon dioxide
Biosphere (rainforest deforestation)
-
When forests are cut down or burnt, the carbon they had been storing is released back into the atmosphere.
-
Deforestation increases amount of carbon in the atmosphere due to the lack of trees available to consume and store carbon.
-
Peat (made up of partly decomposed leaves and ancient plantlife) stores carbon and slows global warming
Central African peatlands hold 30.6 billion tonnes of carbon accumulated over 10,000 years – the equivalent to three years of the world’s fossil fuel emissions
-