Don't count on whales as 'climate savers,' says study griffith_uni frontiersin
The team found the amount potentially sequestered by the whales was too minimal to make significant impact on the trajectory of climate change.
"Our study support that whales are important for the marine ecosystem, but their contribution to the global carbon flux is too small to effectively reduce atmospheric carbon," Dr. Meynecke said. "While our research group would very much like to highlight the opposite in order to benefit the conservation of whales and perhaps one day use carbon credits to support research, the debate is misguiding and creates false hope.
There are other potential pathways in which whales can contribute to carbon capture: through their biomass in which carbon is kept for decades (depending on their
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