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2009Jan12: Oceans soak up about 11bn tons of human CO2 pollution.

2009Jan12: The world’s oceans soak up about 11 billion tons of human CO2 pollution each year (UK Guardian).

Reference: UK Guardian http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2009/jan/12/sea-co2-climate-japan-environment

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