WHALES AND GHG EMISSIONS


WHALES AND GHG EMISSIONS

Most people on Earth are completely ignorant of the fact that whales actually help reduce global overheating!

How is this possible?

50% of the world’s carbon is actually stored in coastal ecosystems.

 The oceans actually suck up 25% of the carbon we produce   and 25 % is absorbed by land plants and trees.

When most marine animals pop the excrement sinks to the bottom of the oceans.

But, that is not the case with whales.  Whales’ poop does not sink to the bottom. It’s like a slurry floating at the surface and when it was analyzed it was found to contain high levels of iron and nitrogen.

This nitrogen helps feed phytoplankton which bloom profusely as it  floats on the  ocean’s surface.

When phytoplankton photosynthesizes they remove carbon dioxide  from the atmosphere which is  a huge contributor to global overheating.

The whale poop-phytoplankton- carbon-reduction relationship  is perfect complete cycle .

The whales poop contains iron which feeds the phytoplankton.

Next, krill arrive and eat phytoplankton. And when the baleen whales eat krill,  the iron that was excreted in the poop is returned back to the whales!

Unfortunately, more than a thousand whales are slaughtered every single year in countries that have not banned whaling.

It is of utmost importance  for the future survival of our children and our children’s children  we convince  Norway,  Japan, and Iceland  to end the slaughter of whales!

 

 

 


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