The
scientists think that the fitoplancton, principal source of atmospheric oxygen,
may reach a critical point of dearth.
According
to some American scientists, in some decades, humanity will face the problem of
the lack of oxygen in the atmosphere due to the decreasing of filoplancton in
the aquatic surface.
A group of
scientists of Michigan’s University, observed the effect that the increasing
temperature had on the fitoplancton’s metabolism while they were investigating
the surface of the world’s oceans. The scientists confirm their theories about
what will happen at the end of the century, a lack of filoplancton.
After
examining about 130 species of filoplancton, especially the ones that develop
on the temperature zone and the ones at the areas near the polar regions. finally,
the biologists concluded that the fitoplancton must reproduce in lower
temperatures that the ones that are present during the year.
So,
according to some preliminary conclusions, the tropical species of filoplancton
are more sensible to the global warming. Due to all these processes of climate
change and the increasing of the temperatures, all the plankton of the tropical
area could be reduced to the poles, where it can also disappear.
Burning
oil, coal, gas, wood or other organic materials uses molecular oxygen, the O2
we breathe, to break carbon-hydrogen bonds and release energy. This reaction,
better known as combustion, also pairs each broken-off, positively charged
carbon atom with two negatively charged oxygen atoms, forming carbon dioxide,
or CO2.
Although
that does cut into the amount of O2 in the atmosphere, there's no need to fill
your basement with oxygen tanks. Molecular oxygen, the O2 that we breathe, is
the runner-up, at 20.94 percent.
Because of
this relative bounty of oxygen, scientists don't fear that carbon emissions
will cut off our oxygen supply. "Even if we were to burn another 1,000
billion tons of fossil fuels, we would only decrease the oxygen in our
atmosphere to 20.88 percent," he says. And even then, the effects that
action would have on the environment—more particulate pollution, hotter
temperatures—would be far worse than oxygen depletion.
The
conclusion is: It depends on the scientist. Personally I think that we will run
out, but that would happen in a hypothetical situation, for example, if the sun
disappears, if all the plants die…
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