<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/b87d46e7-0602-4f91-918c-220c848e0b5d/B943F071-0AA7-4A62-AB92-799610CC6F69/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://wakeupfreakout.org/wakeup.html" href="http://wakeupfreakout.org/wakeup.html" style="font-size: 11px;">wakeupfreakout.org</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://wakeupfreakout.org/wakeup.html">Uncondensed <A href="http://www.grida.no/climate/ipcc_tar/wg1/268.htm" id="opu7193">water vapour</A> is actually a more important greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide. Although we aren't actually emitting much water vapour directly, as the planet warms, evaporation rates increase, raising humidity and thickening the Earth’s thermal blanket<A href="#sdendnote9sym" name="sdendnote9anc" class="sdendnoteanc" id="opu7203">9</A>, which <A href="http://sciencepoliticsclimatechange.blogspot.com/2006/08/more-on-water-vapor-feedback.html" id="opu7210">in turn raises temperatures</A><A href="#sdendnote10sym" name="sdendnote10anc" class="sdendnoteanc" id="opu7217">10</A>, further increasing evaporation - etc<A href="#sdendnote11sym" name="sdendnote11anc" class="sdendnoteanc" id="opu7226">11</A>. </blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://wakeupfreakout.org/wakeup.html">Normally, about half the CO2 emitted each year from human activities is re-absorbed by a combination of forests, plankton, and the ocean itself<A href="#sdendnote12sym" name="sdendnote12anc" class="sdendnoteanc" id="opu7239">12</A>. But the ocean surface is becoming more and <A href="http://royalsociety.org/document.asp?id=3249" id="opu7246">more acidic as concentrations of CO2 dissolved in it rise</A>. At the same time the water temperature at the surface is also going up, forming a layer of warm, acidic water that is spreading across the ocean surface, killing off the plankton that lock CO2 out of the atmosphere<A href="#sdendnote13sym" name="sdendnote13anc" class="sdendnoteanc" id="opu7256">13</A>. Worse, warm water holds less CO2 than cold water<A href="#sdendnote14sym" name="sdendnote14anc" class="sdendnoteanc" id="opu7265">14</A>, so as it heats up it actually starts <A href="http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2007/11/is-the-ocean-carbon-sink-sinking/" id="opu7272">releasing some of the CO2</A><A href="#sdendnote15sym" name="sdendnote15anc" class="sdendnoteanc" id="opu7279">15</A> it had previously absorbed<A href="#sdendnote16sym" name="sdendnote16anc" class="sdendnoteanc" id="opu7288">16</A>. </blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/B943F071-0AA7-4A62-AB92-799610CC6F69/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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