Firstly your story of "outgassing of CO2 from the oceans" would in fact add to atmospheric carbon dioxide rather than deplete it. Then you describe the ocean as a sink for carbon dioxide and finally you go back to your story of "the huge amount of Co2 that comes out of the ocean." You certainly seem to be covering all the bases. Are you calling the oceans an net sink or source of carbon dioxide?
This is what I wrote.
"All of these fuels produce carbon dioxide and virtually all of the carbon dioxide initially goes into the atmosphere. Some of it stays, some of it is used by plants and some of it dissolves in the waters of the Earth. Our oceans are slowly but measurably acidifying." Perhaps I should have added that this acidification is due to accumulation of dissolved carbon dioxide because i assert the oceans are a net sink for this toxic gas. I expect Ian Plimer would agree. The great natural carbon cycle moves carbon into the oceans where most of it precipitates out as aragonite or calcite either via direct chemical interaction, as animal shells or occasionally, in algal mats. The end result is limestone rock.
I like to think that eventually our Earth will heal itself of the excess carbon dioxide we are spewing out. Carbon dioxide continues to be absorbed by the natural cycles but unfortunately at a rate much less than the combination of natural and human induced production. One way or another we humans will eventually stop this overloading and then the natural processes may restore some kind of dynamic balance.
In the meantime, we live and die as human induced climate change degrades the planet. This afternoon the Brunswick Valley filled with smoke from the Cudgen fire. From Byron Bay it looked like misting rain but no such luck. You believe what you like. I believe our current intense fire seasons are one consequence of global warming.
