Did you ever think what #whaling did to the #ocean #carbonsink ?
They weigh 7t a piece or so. A third of which is carbon, maybe? That'd be 2.3 t Carbon or 8.5 t CO2?
And before humans hunted #whales to the brink of extinction, every year, a quarter million or so old whales died and their carcasses sank to the ocean floor, taking with them all the CO2 their bodies had stored.
That'd be 2Mt CO2.
Uhm. Okay.
Chuckles. This question hovered in the back of my mind for so long. Glad I did the maths now.
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