Glasgow shooting victim ‘targeted’
The academics are warning the process could represent a vicious circle, driving further climate warming.
Dr Ryan Pereira, a Lyell research fellow at Edinburgh’s Heriot-watt University, said: “As surface temperatures rise, so too do surfactants, which is why this is such a critical finding. The warmer the ocean surface gets, the more surfactants we can expect, and an even greater reduction in gas exchange.”
Co-researcher Professor Rob Upstill-goddard, professor of marine biogeochemistry at Newcastle University, said: “The suppression of carbon dioxide uptake across the ocean basin due to surfactants, as revealed by our work, implies slower removal of anthropogenic carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and thus has implications for predicting future global climate.”
Studies were carried out at 13 sites across the Atlantic Ocean in a range of ecosystems.
Dr Pereira added: “These natural surfactants aren’t necessarily visible like an oil slick or a foam, and they are even difficult to identify from the satellites monitoring our ocean’s surface.
“We need to be able to measure and identify the organic matter on the surface microlayer of the ocean so that we can reliably estimate rates of gas exchange of climate-active gases, such as carbon dioxide and methane.”
The research was funded by the Natural Environment Research Council, Leverhulme Trust and the European Space Agency. 0 Competitors take part in the annual cheese rolling competition at Cooper’s Hill in Brockworth, Gloucestershire. More than 40 contestants take part in the event which sees competitors chase a nine-pound wheel of Double Gloucester cheese travelling at speeds of over 70 miles an hour. A man who was shot at as he sat in a car outside a block of flats was the victim of a targeted attack, police have said.
The 27-year-old was in his parked car in Kingsway Court in the Scotstoun area of Glasgow when he was targeted on Sunday, 20 May at around 6:30pm. Police said another car pulled up beside him and the occupants “discharged a firearm”. It narrowly missed the victim who drove off before crashing. The man was uninjured and the suspects made off from the scene.
Officers returned to the area on Sunday to speak to members of the public in an effort to gather information.
Detective Inspector John Morrison said: “We believe the attack was specifically targeted at the victim and the aim of this operation was to speak to members of the public who perhaps use this route on a regular basis, around this particular time, in the hope that they remember something which could assist our inquiries.
“We have spoken to more than 40 people and have received positive feedback. This information is now being assessed by officers … with any relevant lines of inquiry being followed up.”