Controlling climate disruption… it might just be possible – a EUREKA moment?
71% of the planet is covered by ocean, and 100% of the ocean should be covered by an oil surfactant layer called the SML. The SML controls and regulates the transfer of gas across the air-water interface.
The gases include carbon dioxide, nitrogen, oxygen and water. The, SML, is also responsible for the formation of biogenic aerosols that cause the condensation of water vapour, release of energy and formation of clouds.
The SML is formed by specific groups of phytoplankton such as coccolithophores and diatoms, but their survival also depends on zooplankton such as copepods to recycle nutrients such as iron and to keep the populations stable.
Pollution, from microplastics and carbon soot floating on the surface of the ocean, combines with lipophilic toxic forever chemicals which are adsorbed onto the particles and subsequently eaten by the zooplankton. The zooplankton die from the toxic chemical load.
With reduced zooplankton numbers, the phytoplankton reproduce explosively because they are not being cropped. The phytoplankton produce oil, which makes the surface of the ocean go smooth. The lack of ripples can actually be detected by SAR satellite imagery from space. It is a technique that is currently being used to map microplastics.
The phytoplankton bloom; they use up all the nutrients and oxygen, and then they die and fall to the abyss. The area is now devoid of nutrients such as iron, because they are no longer being recycled by zooplankton. The zones are called HNLC (high nutrient, low chlorophyll); they are effectively dead zones or zones of greatly reduced productivity. These HNLC zones now cover 30% of the world’s oceans and 80% of the Southern Ocean.
With no or reduced SML, atmospheric water vapour pressure increases more rapidly and cloud formation decreases. The average increase in global specific humidity is 10%, and the reduction in cloud formation is 10%. Both these parameters cause an increase in temperature and energy reaching the planet’s surface. If you equate this to the effect of carbon dioxide, the 10% increase in humidity equals 20 ppm CO₂ and the 10% reduction in clouds is 190 ppm CO₂..
If this is correct, the biogenic factors and marine productivity are the main drivers and regulators of the climate. We can control this parameter by regenerating plankton by the elimination of pollution or by making an artificial SML.
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