Oceans turning acidic
 

Notice the next to the last paragraph. No, that can't be true. Every
Republican that doesn't have an advanced science degree KNOWS that
global warming and greenhouse gas emissions aren't related, and are a
natural phenomenon anyway!

Expert Says Oceans Are Turning Acidic
By ANTHONY MITCHELL, Associated Press Writer

Thursday, November 9, 2006


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(11-09) 10:43 PST NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) --


The world's oceans are becoming more acidic, which poses a threat to
sea life and Earth's fragile food chain, a climate expert said
Thursday.


Oceans have already absorbed a third of the world's emissions of carbon
dioxide, one of the heat-trapping gases blamed for global warming,
leading to acidification that prevents vital sea life from forming
properly.


"The oceans are rapidly changing," said professor Stefan Rahmstorf on
the sidelines of a U.N. conference on climate change that has drawn
delegates from more than 100 countries to Kenya. "Ocean acidification
is a major threat to marine organisms."


Fish stocks and the world's coral reefs could also be hit while
acidification risks "fundamentally altering" the food chain, he said.


In a study titled "The Future Oceans - Warming Up, Rising High,
Turning Sour," Rahmstorf and eight other scientists warned that the
world is witnessing, on a global scale, problems similar to the acid
rain phenomenon of the 1970s and 1980s.


Rahmstorf, the head of Germany's Potsdam Institute for Research into
Climatic Effects, says more research is urgently needed to assess the
impact of ocean acidification.


David Santillo, a senior scientist at Greenpeace's Research
Laboratories in Exeter, Britain, said it had come as a shock to
scientists that the oceans are turning acidic because of carbon dioxide
emissions.


"The knock on effect for humans is that some of these marine resources
that we rely on may not be available in the future," the marine
biologist, who was not involved in Rahmstorf's study, told The
Associated Press by telephone.


Rahmstorf also reiterated warnings of rising sea levels caused by
global warming, saying that in 70 years, temperature increases will
lead more frequent storms with 200 million people threatened by floods.


Scientists blame the past century's one-degree rise in average global
temperatures at least in part for the accumulation of carbon dioxide,
methane and other heat-trapping greenhouse gases in the atmosphere -
byproducts of power plants, automobiles and other fossil fuel burners.


The 1997 Kyoto accord requires 35 industrialized countries to reduce
greenhouse-gas emissions by 5 percent below 1990 levels by 2012. The
Kyoto countries meeting in Nairobi are continuing talks on what kind of
emissions targets and timetables should follow 2012

Oceans turning acidic
 

"basskisser" wrote in message
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.... accumulation of carbon dioxide, methane and other heat-trapping
greenhouse gases in the atmosphere - byproducts of power plants,
automobiles and other fossil fuel burners.

Carbon dioxide and methane? I thought those were products of
oxygen-breathing mammals and flatuating cows.

Oceans turning acidic
 

NOYB wrote:
"basskisser" wrote in message
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.... accumulation of carbon dioxide, methane and other heat-trapping
greenhouse gases in the atmosphere - byproducts of power plants,
automobiles and other fossil fuel burners.

Carbon dioxide and methane? I thought those were products of
oxygen-breathing mammals and flatuating cows.

I already predicted what you'd say.

Oceans turning acidic
 

"basskisser" wrote in message
ups.com...
Notice the next to the last paragraph. No, that can't be true. Every
Republican that doesn't have an advanced science degree KNOWS that
global warming and greenhouse gas emissions aren't related, and are a
natural phenomenon anyway!

Expert Says Oceans Are Turning Acidic
By ANTHONY MITCHELL, Associated Press Writer

Thursday, November 9, 2006
The world's oceans are becoming more acidic, which poses a threat to
sea life and Earth's fragile food chain, a climate expert said
Thursday.


Oceans have already absorbed a third of the world's emissions of carbon
dioxide, one of the heat-trapping gases blamed for global warming,
leading to acidification that prevents vital sea life from forming
properly.


So we should expect burning lungs for those who breathe out carbon dioxide.
How in the world does anyone believe this bunk. Your breath has twice as
much carbon dioxide as there is in the atmosphere/many times the amount that
is dissolved in the ocean. While there is a slight tendency for the carbon
dioxide molecule to attract an oxygen atom in water thus freeing up the
hydrogen atom to make an acid it's EXTREMELY weak.

We must remember that life evolved in high Carbon dioxide environments and
we can thrive in levels MUCH higher than exist today.

Oceans turning acidic
 

"basskisser" wrote in message
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NOYB wrote:
"basskisser" wrote in message
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.... accumulation of carbon dioxide, methane and other heat-trapping
greenhouse gases in the atmosphere - byproducts of power plants,
automobiles and other fossil fuel burners.

Carbon dioxide and methane? I thought those were products of
oxygen-breathing mammals and flatuating cows.

I already predicted what you'd say.

yes, they had to find some other "threat" since global temps started
dropping after 2004. It's global acid, that's why those coral atolls are
sinking, they are dissolving.

Oceans turning acidic
 

yes, they had to find some other "threat"

I'm Curious. Who are "They" and what could "They" possibly have to gain
from making this stuff up?

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Oceans turning acidic
 

basskisser wrote:

NOYB wrote:

"basskisser" wrote in message
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.... accumulation of carbon dioxide, methane and other heat-trapping
greenhouse gases in the atmosphere - byproducts of power plants,
automobiles and other fossil fuel burners.

Carbon dioxide and methane? I thought those were products of
oxygen-breathing mammals and flatuating cows.


I already predicted what you'd say.


Cite?

Oceans turning acidic
 

Jeff Rigby wrote:


We must remember that life evolved in high Carbon dioxide environments and
we can thrive in levels MUCH higher than exist today.

You mean back when living to 29 was considered an "advanced age"? :-)

Oceans turning acidic
 

"Chuck Gould" wrote in message
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Jeff Rigby wrote:


We must remember that life evolved in high Carbon dioxide environments
and
we can thrive in levels MUCH higher than exist today.

You mean back when living to 29 was considered an "advanced age"? :-)


It seems to be that real lifespan has not changed much over the years.
Average has gone up, as lots of childhood diseases have been arrested. As
well as accidents do not kill as many. Due to antibiotics. And to have the
ocean turn more acidic, I think there would have to a lot of samples taken
over a huge area. Just the shear quantity of water could absorb a lot of
CO2 before a noticible pH change could be recorded.

Oceans turning acidic
 

"Duke Nukem" wrote in message
...
On Fri, 10 Nov 2006 01:52:16 GMT, "Calif Bill"
wrote:


"Chuck Gould" wrote in message
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Jeff Rigby wrote:


We must remember that life evolved in high Carbon dioxide environments
and
we can thrive in levels MUCH higher than exist today.

You mean back when living to 29 was considered an "advanced age"? :-)

It seems to be that real lifespan has not changed much over the years.
Average has gone up, as lots of childhood diseases have been arrested. As
well as accidents do not kill as many. Due to antibiotics. And to have
the
ocean turn more acidic, I think there would have to a lot of samples taken
over a huge area. Just the shear quantity of water could absorb a lot of
CO2 before a noticible pH change could be recorded.

What's really causing all these hurricanes and acid increases is the
hot air about global warming and all the politicians peeing on each
other's shoes.

I would not mind the pols peeing on each other, it is us mortals that are
getting splashed a lot.