JAKARTA, KOMPAS.com - Efforts to reduce emissions of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere should be done if you want to avoid the acceleration of global warming and climate change are not controlled. The potential is increased due to the release of greenhouse gases from the ocean continues to grow.

The teaching staff the Department of Marine Science and Technology IPB, Alan F Koropitan, explains, the ocean water around the globe rotates continuously from the northern waters of Earth-among others-to the waters of the Atlantic Ocean south of the Earth, such as the Antarctic Sea.

"And the sea water around the world to absorb carbon, both carbon in the particles that enter the ocean as well as existing carbon in the atmosphere. Carbon in the particles will decompose into carbon dissolved in seawater. All of the carbon absorbed is stored in ocean water mass in the layer. If conditions are normal, more carbon is absorbed by the ocean rather than being released, "said Koropitan in Belawan, on Tuesday (7 / 12).

The composition of carbon in the atmosphere reaches 45 percent of the total carbon in the Earth, 29 percent of plants on land, sea and 26 percent. "Global Carbon Project research shows, the index is stored in seawater CO fell from 0.3 in 1960 to 0.25 (2008). Instead, index the content of CO in the atmosphere rose from 0.41 in 1960 to 0.43 in 2008, "said Koropitan.

This is because the increased velocity of water in the Sea of Antarctica due to global warming which causes mass removal of sea water in the sea level rise so that the higher release of carbon. The more carbon content in the air, the more heat the atmosphere so that a similar process faster.

"The solution is only one, namely to reduce the carbon emissions of developed countries. Mitigation to prevent new forest clearing, such as REDD +, will not reduce the rate of release of carbon from the sea, "he said.

Executive Director of the Institute for Essential Services Reform Fabby Tumiwa states, decrease the ability of the ocean to absorb carbon explains the fact why the rate of increase of greenhouse gas emissions increased from 1.5 parts per million (ppm) to 2 ppm per year in 1990 to 3.5 ppm per year at this time. "Because the accretion rate of greenhouse gas emissions more quickly, by 2011 there should be a global agreement to reduce emissions. Either by agreeing on the second phase of the Kyoto Protocol emission reduction or a new agreement, "said Fabby.
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