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the air, which, of itself, would cause a liberation of the gas 

 from the ocean, will be more than counteracted by the decrease 

 in the temperature of the ocean-surface , and that therefore 

 the result must be that the ocean «turns robber itself», 

 absorbs carbonic acid from the air and thereby aggravates the 

 direct , climatic influence of the decreasing percentage. 



As pointed out in the preceding paper (p. 352) the experi- 

 mental basis of ToLMANs deliberations and calculations is very 

 untrustworthy. If my figures are utilized, and if we assume 

 (in accordance with the second paper by Arrhenics) that a 

 decrease in the percentage of carbonic acid in the atmosphere 

 from 0.03 to 0.015 will lower the temperature 3.2°, we find that 

 the tension in the different zones of the ocean will thereby be 

 diminished as follows. 



It is seen that the lowering of the tension is very nearly 

 uniform throughout the whole range of temperatures and 

 amounts to not more than 0.003 "/o, while the percentage of 

 carbonic acid in the atmosphere must, according to the hypo- 

 thesis, be lowered by 0.015 %. This proves that Tolmans con- 

 clusion is incorrect and establishes as a fact that the action of 

 the ocean will retard and diminish any influence upon the 

 climate, which the variations of the percentage of carbonic acid 

 in the atmosphere might exercise. 



