Whales not reliable as climate saviors, study finds.

A new study led by Griffith University and a team of global researchers has found that the amount of potential carbon capture by whales is too little to meaningfully alter the course of climate change. While whales are important for the marine ecosystem, their contribution to the global carbon flux is too small to effectively reduce atmospheric carbon. Overstating their ability to prevent or counterbalance human-induced changes in global carbon budgets may unintentionally redirect attention from well-established methods of reducing greenhouse gases.