Friday, May 16, 2008

A notorious byproduct

"Although ~10% of the ocean's drawdown of atmospheric anthropogenic carbon dioxide may result from this atmospheric nitrogen fertilization, leading to a decrease in radiative forcing, up to about two-thirds of this amount may be offset by the increase in N2O emissions (Duce et al. 2008)."

N2O has a global warming potential of 298.

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