Pending disappearance of Arctic ice has one more knock on effect.
Complete article quoted, as it's a 'media release'.
Potential implication of Arctic ice loss becomes more dire with each passing bit of data I seem to find.
Media release 17 September 2009
Arctic sea ice pumps 50% more carbon dioxide into the oceans
Arctic sea ice plays a critical and hitherto unknown role in the removal of the greenhouse gas, carbon dioxide (CO2) from the atmosphere, as revealed in a study just published by an international research team that includes Prof. Ronnie Glud of SAMS.
The Nordic Seas have some of the highest uptake rates of carbon dioxide in the global ocean. Prior to this study, the mechanism by which the CO2 is absorbed into the ocean was believed to be driven largely by biological draw-down: micro-organisms remove inorganic carbon compounds from the water column, encouraging more CO2 to dissolve from the atmosphere.
continued at Daily Kos....
