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Save the Whale, save the planet?\u00a0 This is the bizarre claim that I read the other day.\u00a0 For many people saving the Whale was the first environmental campaign they came across (Yes “Don’t kill the Whale” and all that).\u00a0 Could they have been onto something more important?\u00a0 It might be so.\u00a0 Scientists have worked out that Whales really could mop up enormous quantities of carbon.\u00a0 So the claim goes from the IMF.<\/p>\n

The reason is prosaic.\u00a0 Whales poo.\u00a0 Clearly quite a lot.\u00a0 This poo is used by plankton.\u00a0 Lots of Whales eat plankton, but they cannot eat the lot.\u00a0 This plankton is either eaten by other creatures, or escapes predation and sinks to the ocean floor.\u00a0 Anyway either whale poo, or creatures that have eaten the poo or the whales themselves, after they died end up on the ocean floor.\u00a0 Since all living things are carbon based then the carbon is locked up basically for all eternity.\u00a0 The IMF reckons the effect of letting the phytoplankton numbers increase by 1% numbers would be the same as 2 billion trees.\u00a0 There’s something almost too good to be true about all this.\u00a0 All we have to do is pretty much do nothing (although other man made activities at sea do inadvertently kill whales).<\/p>\n

There is a strange link between Whale hunting and oil.\u00a0 Originally Whales were hunted for their oil (amongst other things) that was used to power lamps.\u00a0 The coming of the oil industry largely put a stop to that.\u00a0 Oil has produced climate change, would it not be ironic if the poor whale was part of the solution?<\/p>\n

The IMF article can be seen here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Neil<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Save the Whale, save the planet?\u00a0 This is the bizarre claim that I read the other day.\u00a0 For many people saving the Whale was the first environmental campaign they came across (Yes “Don’t kill the Whale” and all that).\u00a0 Could … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,21,1],"tags":[269],"class_list":["post-8564","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-climate-change","category-nature","category-uncategorized","tag-climate-change"],"yoast_head":"\nSave the Whale, save the planet? - The oil lamp - shining God's light on peak oil<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theoillamp.co.uk\/?p=8564\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"admin\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.theoillamp.co.uk\/?p=8564\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.theoillamp.co.uk\/?p=8564\",\"name\":\"Save the Whale, save the planet? 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