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

"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.

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.

"basskisser" wrote in message
ups.com...

NOYB wrote:
"basskisser" wrote in message
ups.com...

.... 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.

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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Message posted via http://www.boatkb.com

I was in the laboratory measuring pH when I read the article published
on the increasing pH because of global warming.

If you read the original article you would see that the difference in pH
they are talking about is in the neighborhood of 0.03 pH units. This is
insignificant and does not indicative anything except the precision of
the pH measurement and the sampling. Since the difference is the
precision of the measurements there is nothing to do with global warming.

pH is a theoretical amount of Hydrogen molecules in the solutions. In
practice pH is a measure of the impurities in water, and is
significantly affected by the temperature of the solution. It is also
affected by the actual materials in the solutions as the the amount of
Hydrogen ions are affected by the interactions of the compounds in the
solutions.

pH is measured using the electrical properties of the solution. Because
of the quality of the electronics the precision of the measurements are
several powers more accurate than the precision of the chemical
properties that are being measured.

The electronics are standardized against two reference solutions. The
accuracy of these solutions is about +/- 0.01 based on the suppliers of
the standards. See a typical specification sheet for one of those
standards is at

http://www.coleparmer.com/catalog/pr...sp?sku=0594242

In practice the precision of laboratory measurements of pH is about +/-
0.03 one one sample. When you take dozens of samples there is
additional error. So you can see the differences they are trying to get
funding to study is nothing but the precision of the measurement of the
pH. (If you google you can find many papers on the laboratory precision
of pH measurements.)

Because of the inaccuracy in pH, the specifications for the drugs you
take are usually stated to 0.1 pH units.

Now, if someone can explain to me how they can say there is a 0.4 degree
change in the mean temperature of the earth when the daily temperature
difference across the surface of the earth is about 100 degrees. I don't
know much about temperature reading and statistics.


scbafreak via BoatKB.com wrote:
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?

"scbafreak via BoatKB.com" u25927@uwe wrote in message
news:690cec9d084bd@uwe...
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?

Yes, lets list who they are and maybe we can find out why they are biased
against developing nations.
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Message posted via http://www.boatkb.com

basskisser wrote:

NOYB wrote:

"basskisser" wrote in message
roups.com...


.... 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?

Dan wrote:
basskisser wrote:

NOYB wrote:

"basskisser" wrote in message
roups.com...


.... 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?

Infatuation....
Infatuation....
It's making Dan crazy....
It's driving him CRAAAAZY.......

Every single thread........
Every single post I make.....
Dan's right there trying to smell my ass!

basskisser wrote:

Dan wrote:

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?


Infatuation....
Infatuation....
It's making Dan crazy....
It's driving him CRAAAAZY.......

Every single thread........
Every single post I make.....
Dan's right there trying to smell my ass!


Now that's CHILDISH!!