{"id":354186,"date":"2024-12-13T08:22:12","date_gmt":"2024-12-13T07:22:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=354186"},"modified":"2024-12-13T08:22:14","modified_gmt":"2024-12-13T07:22:14","slug":"study-marine-life-in-oceans-has-a-cooling-effect-on-climate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=354186","title":{"rendered":"Study: Marine life in oceans has a cooling effect on climate"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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From CFACT<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

By Bonner Cohen, Ph. D<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Putting another nail in the coffin of the mantra that \u201cthe science is settled on climate change,\u201d researchers in Spain have found that global emissions of a sulfur gas produced by marine life have a hitherto unknown cooling effect on temperatures.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It has long been known that oceans capture and redistribute the sun\u2019s heat.  But there is more to the story.  A study published<\/a> Nov. 29 in the journal Science Advances noted that<\/a> oceans, notably in the Southern Hemisphere, produce gases known as marine sulfur.  And one of these gases, methanethiol, influences the climate in a way that has gone unnoticed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Microscopic plankton living on the surface of the oceans \u201cproduce sulfur in the form of a gas, dimethyl sulphide, that once in the atmosphere, oxidizes and forms small particles called aerosols,\u201d the University of East Anglia (UEA) said in a news release<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAerosols reflect part of the solar radiation back into space and therefore reduce the heat retained by the Earth,\u201d UEA explained<\/a>.  \u201cTheir cooling effect is magnified when they become involved in making clouds, with an effect opposite to, but of the same magnitude as, that of the well-known warming greenhouse gases, such as carbon dioxide or methane.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The study is<\/a> \u201cMarine Emissions of Methanethiol Increase Aerosol Cooling in the Southern Ocean.\u201d  It is, UEA noted, based on measurements of methanethiol the researchers gathered in seawater, added those they had made in the Southern Ocean and the Mediterranean coast, \u201cand statistically related them to seawater temperature, obtained from satellites.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cClimate models have greatly overstated the solar radiation actually reaching the Southern Ocean, largely because they are not capable of correctly simulating clouds,\u201d Charel Wohl, of UEA\u2019s Centre for Ocean and Atmospheric Science and one of the study\u2019s lead authors, said<\/a>.  \u201cThe work here largely closes the longstanding knowledge gap between models and observations.\u201d  Wohl acknowledged that scientists knew that \u201cmethanethiol was coming out of the ocean, but we had no idea about how much and where.  We also did not know it had such an impact on climate.\u201d  That effect is more visible in the Southern Hemisphere, UEA points out, where there is more ocean and less human activity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cUntil now we thought that the oceans emitted sulfur into the atmosphere only in the form of dimethyl sulphide, a residue of plankton that is largely responsible for the evocative smell of shellfish,\u201d said Dr. Marti Gali, one of the study\u2019s authors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

UEA is no stranger when it comes to breaking climate news.  In November 2009, the university was embroiled in a scandal known as \u201cClimategate.\u201d  UEA\u2019s Climate Research Unit (CRU) was the source of a trove of emails \u201csuggesting,\u201d in the words of<\/a> climatologist Patrick Michaels, \u201csome of the world\u2019s leading climate scientists engaged in professional misconduct, data manipulation and jiggering of both the scientific literature and climatic data to paint what scientist Keith Briffa called \u2018a nice, tidy story\u2019 of climate history.\u201d  It was never determined whether the emails were leaked or hacked, but they showed climate scientists colluding to suppress scientific findings questioning the narrative of manmade global warming.  An investigation launched by UEA reached no definitive conclusions.  But, as Michaels noted, the British university received generous climate-research grant money that gave it a disincentive to investigate the matter too closely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

UEA is still in the business of spreading climate alarm.  While its press release<\/a> on the Spanish study accurately summarizes its findings, it claims the study highlights \u201cthe magnitude of the impact of human activity on the climate and that the planet will continue to warm if no action is taken.\u201d  Yet it is the action that UEA insists be taken that that has crippled economies in the United Kingdom, Germany and elsewhere in Europe, and has led to soaring energy costs and undermined the stability of the electric grid in California, New York, Illinois and other states, where climate-centric energy policies have been adopted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At the same time, the acknowledgement that there still are gaps in our understanding of the myriad variables that lie behind fluctuations in the Earth\u2019s climate should give pause to those intent on imposing life-changing policies on the rest of us.  Policies based on a still-evolving understanding of the climate and adopted with little regard for their consequences for ordinary people are an open invitation to calamity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This article originally appeared in The Daily Caller<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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