United Nations agency report: Inadequate ocean carbon research may affect climate policies.

The Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission of UNESCO recently released a report stating that there is a serious lack of understanding of how the ocean absorbs and stores carbon, which could lead to inaccuracies in current climate predictions and affect the ability to develop effective strategies to mitigate and adapt to climate change in the coming decades. The report, titled "Ocean Carbon Synthesis Research," suggests that scientific models estimating the amount of carbon absorbed by the ocean may differ from reality, with global discrepancies ranging from 10% to 20% and even larger differences in some regions. These discrepancies stem from limited long-term data and gaps in understanding how key processes respond to climate change.