The oceans have plenty of CO2, the stuff that makes soda fizzy. The ocean is actually one of the largest CO2 sinks on earth. The ocean also has plenty of bubbles to make it “fizzy”, but there is a fuckton more volume of liquid that you don’t get the fizz like a soda as a general rule. So not quite flat as you say.
A map of the anthropogenic CO2 ocean column inventory shows that the carbon is not evenly distributed in space. More than 23% of the inventory can be found in the North Atlantic, a region covering approximately 15% of the global ocean. By contrast, the region south of 50°S represents approximately the same ocean area but only has ~9% of the global inventory.
The site above also explains the life cycle of CO2 in the earth’s oceans.
The oceans have plenty of CO2, the stuff that makes soda fizzy. The ocean is actually one of the largest CO2 sinks on earth. The ocean also has plenty of bubbles to make it “fizzy”, but there is a fuckton more volume of liquid that you don’t get the fizz like a soda as a general rule. So not quite flat as you say.
Is all the co2 distributed evenly or would there be more co2 absorbed in areas where it is colder and less in warmer areas?
Good question. Here is a quote from NOAA
The site above also explains the life cycle of CO2 in the earth’s oceans.
Good information and REAL numbers.
If that’s true, then why don’t the oceans explode when i throw in a Mentos?
There’s about 50x more co2 in soda water than in ocean water.
There is more co2 in flat soda water than ocean water.
Yes, it is flat.