Drain the oceans. Fill them with oil.

No wonder everyone's so happy.

Well, well, well, the science is not settled after all.
At long last the climate scientists are getting out and doing some actual physical measurements rather than relying on computer models.
I also note that the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute has just discovered that corral is quite happy in a slightly less basic sea environment as well.

From this article it sounds like they are working under the assumption that the high N2O production is a result of human activities...

How can they know that if this is the first time they have conducted proper tests, perhaps this level is perfectly normal?

It seems as though environmental scientists/writers will always evaluate evidence and information with the assumption that the pre-existing theory is correct. That's not science and that's why I have a major problem with many of the theories in regard to global warming, or as they now call it 'climate change' - perhaps because the extreme predictions they were originally making have not come to pass.

Before I get roasted, I'll say this. I'm not sure if it's correct or incorrect but bad science is bad science.

It's much like the dietary recommendations from half a century ago that had almost no evidence behind them, they relied on correlation and information bias and they had the arrogance to call that science. They are starting to perform actual science to confirm those assumptions that the recommendations are based on and guess what? Some have been incorrect and sometimes completely incorrect.

Those 4 million metric tonnes of N2O have a comparably minor effect on global warming. Yes, N2O has 298 times the effect of CO2, but we are currently producing 35 billion tonnes of CO2 every year. That is billion with a B. The 4 million metric tonnes of N2O only equal about 1.1 billion tonnes of CO2. So less than a 1/30 of the CO2. I would call that negligible.

@Fairly Reasoner: LOL!
@Skipjack: Not negligible, but definitely doesn't mean we shouldn't be cutting back big-time on human-caused CO2 levels.
If some people reading this article want to point fingers at the ocean in an attempt to justify their own ignorance, that's their prerogative. Even if it's at the expense of their children's-children's, unborn children.
I'm still counting on Space X to get us to Mars (and beyond). Because I imagine each time we humans "jump ship" to another planet we would wise-up as a human race.

Simple. Just gotta install a bunch of lithium battery packs at the bottom of the sea and make the ocean a hybrid.
Lithium mining, refining, and production doesn't create more CO2 than the system it's implemented into puts out, right? We solved that whole "laws of physics" thing with the Prius, didn't we?

This is just more proof that the science is not settled.
In fact, real science is never settled.
We should not be blindly following people and organizations who make big money by saying the science is settled (Al Gore, David Suzuki, Green Peace, etc.).

Once again the scientifically dead issuae 0 by their own data - is brought up as being legitimate.
And just HOW long has the ocean been doing this? Well.. of course, only since the industrial revolution tight? That way we can let the politicians making money from the AGW farce keep making money and putting in more controls.
The only ignorant people on the AGW debate are those who refuse to read the ICC report (the UN's go to for AGW research promotion as "science") which turned out to show there had been no AGW. Google "Game over IPCC quietly concedes defeat" and READ THE DATA YOURSELF.
It does not matter what person WANTS to believe, or what they are taught as being true when the initial information is false.
Anyone reading the Climategate letters would also have been aware of the ridiculous lie foisted upon us. But instead the people for AGW just believed the media's lies - instead of READING THE DATA THEMSELVES - once again proving modern man is mostly marionette-minded.

So this explains why dolphins always look like they're smiling.