So we hear nothing
about ocean acidification from the deniers,» he claims.
Not exact matches
Schneider: When you're covering climate change, you don't get somebody
from a deep ecology group to tell you we're near the end of the world and then somebody
from the Competitive Enterprise Institute who's going to tell you carbon dioxide is a fertilizer while forgetting
about ocean acidification.
An NAS committee will release a congressionally mandated study by the end of next month that will address everything
from scientific questions
about how
ocean acidification will affect marine life and
ocean - dependent industries to recommendations for a national
acidification research program.
About BIOACID: Since 2009, more than 250 BIOACID scientists
from 20 German research institutes have investigated how different marine organisms respond to
ocean acidification and increasing carbon dioxide concentrations in seawater, how their performance is affected during their various life stages, how these reactions impact marine food webs and elemental cycles and whether they can be mitigated by evolutionary adaptation.
Perhaps you could address your scientific powers towards my unfolding blog
about the omission of 80 years of
ocean pH data
from the record of
ocean acidification.
The
acidification of the
ocean is a much longer - term issue than acid rain, which goes away
about two weeks after you reduce sulfur and nitrogen emissions
from smokestacks.
The work in question takes measurements
from one locale, and doesn't publish conclusions, rather Doney's statements are giving his opinion
about what he read, «Long - term
ocean acidification trends are clearly evident over the past several decades in open -
ocean time - series and hydrographic survey data, and the trends are consistent with the growth rate of atmospheric carbon dioxide (Dore et al., 2009).»
There is a hilarious letter in today's Times
from three FRS professors
about my recent artilce on
ocean acidification.
Research published in the journal Science in 2015 found that
ocean acidification from massive injections of carbon into the atmosphere was the cause of a «mass dying»
about 250 million years ago which, according to Happer, «just didn't happen.»
Artificially increasing the Earth's reflectivity, for example, does nothing
about the ongoing
acidification of the
oceans resulting
from carbon dioxide being added to the atmosphere.
In Washington and Oregon, oysters farms are in coastal Pacific waters where upwelling currents are bringing up cold, deep water with higher amounts of CO2 and a more acidic pH. Watch and listen to two oyster farmers
from Taylor Shellfish Farms in Washington state talk how
about ocean acidification is impacting their young oysters.
He shows no indication of caring
about the
ocean acidification that the burning of fossil fuels is causing, nor the many deaths and serious diseases caused by the air pollution
from burning coal to generate power.
(We are supposed to be worrying
about «
ocean acidification», instead — and, hey, where is all that «missing» CO2
from human emissions going?)
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