Study: Little help from oceans in warming

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Athens, Ga. (UPI) Aug 3, 2010 - A belief that open water in polar regions created by melting ice can absorb carbon dioxide and lessen global warming may be wrong, U.S. scientists say. A University of Georgia biochemist led a survey of waters in the Canada Basin from north of Alaska to the North Pole showing its value as a potential carbon dioxide "sink" may be short-lived at best and minor in terms of what the planet ... more
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