With the research being done at http://www.vims.edu/newsandevents/topstories/jelly_carbon_shunt.php
It has been shown that jellyfish are consuming DOM and shunting carbon away from phytoplankton and fish toward bacteria. The surge in population of jellyfish refutes the CO2 theory in favor of the DOM theory since jellyfish do not take in CO2 but DOM. This will result in less food at the top of the food chain and more bacteria at the bottom. Of course this does not bode well for fish and top predators like humans.
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