Is Gaia Geo-engineering With Jellyfish to Slow Climate Change?

Is Gaia Geo-engineering With Jellyfish to Slow Climate Change?

Written by Susan KraemerPerhaps some good is coming of the ever-increasing jellyfish implosion being reported worldwide.

It turns out, jellyfish may be working to save us from our excesses. The massive new blooms of jellyfish might be burying more carbon dioxide deep under the ocean by pumping cold water to the surface with every meal. When they return, ferrying CO2-laden warm water down into the depths of the sea.

In the process, they may be changing the overall carbon balance in the atmosphere.

The finding is the latest in a decades-old debate over whether swimming animals have much effect on ocean mixing, the process by which warm water on the surface combines with the cold water far below.

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