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(4,695 posts)of the water, the ocean can not keep the gas in solution any longer and it "boils" out or bubbles out.
As you know from a can of soft drink, when the liquid contents warms up, the CO2 bubbles come to the top surface and escape.
The ocean is heating up enough to allow the gas to bubble up and OUT of the sea water. The gas rises in the atmosphere to then trap more of the heat of sunlight. The sun's radiation deflects heat back to the Earth's surface which means more heat to the sea water (and land). It is a vicious heating loop that feeds on itself increasing the release of more gas and more heat.
Can it be stopped is the question. With top scientist saying we-Planet Earth is in a funk, I believe the partial pressures of each of the greenhouse gases are adding up to a huge Vapor Pressure at the surface of the oceans. Have we passed the vapor pressure tipping point?