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Don’t Rely on Plankton to Save the Planet Encouraging plankton growth in the ocean has been touted by some as a promising way to
Don’t Rely on Plankton to Save the Planet Encouraging plankton growth in the ocean has been touted by some as a promising way to
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2009-06-15
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Don’t Rely on Plankton to Save the Planet
Encouraging plankton growth in the ocean has been touted by some as a promising way to remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.(46).
Adding iron to patches of ocean can make plankton bloom temporarily. The microscopic organisms suck up dissolved carbon dioxide from the water, which in turn is replaced by carbon dioxide from the air.(47).
Jorge Sarmiento from Princeton and his colleagues developed a complex computer model to analyse how factors such as ocean chemistry and water circulation would affect the process if 160, 000 square kilometres of ocean were seeded with iron for a month.(48).
In their scenario, which covers an area 10 times as big as the largest experiment of this kind ever proposed, fertilising the ocean removes 1 million tonnes of carbon from the atmosphere -- just 0.2 per cent of the carbon dioxide humankind spews out each month.
Rough estimates in the past have predicted similarly disappointing results.(49)says Sallie Chisholm, an environmental engineer from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. "But the take-home message is the same.(50)"
A Its opponents argue, however, that it will stop global warming.
B Its opponents fear that it will damage the marine ecosystem, and now a computer model shows that the trick would also be remarkably inefficient.
C As plankton die and settle on the ocean floor, their carbon is supposedly locked up in the seabed,
D They found that 100 years later only between 2 and 11 per cent of the extra carbon that was originally taken up by plankton had actually been removed from the atmosphere.
E "These are newer and better models,"
F Ocean fertilisation is not the answer to global warming.
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答案
C
解析
第二段前两句韵意思是:在海洋的部分水域放入一些铁暂时可以促使浮游生物生长。这些微生物可以吸收溶解在水中的二氧化碳,而水中被微生物吸收了的二氧化碳又可以从空气中的二氧化碳得到补充。下面这句话应当是什么呢?C说的是:随着浮游生物的死亡,落在海底后,它们中的碳被假定锁在了海床上。可以看出,此句跟上面两句话很连贯。
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