Sentences with phrase «acidification just»

Another leading skeptical Web site, CO2Science.Org, maintains an ocean acidification database, and the researchers — Drs. Craig, Sherwood, and Keith Idso — review another scientific paper on acidification just about every week.

Bizarrely, the reef doesn't appear to be suffering from the effects of ocean acidification just yet.

Not exact matches

The impacts of ocean acidification, which is caused when carbon dioxide dissolves into seas and reacts with water, is a topic that scientists and governments are only just starting to grasp in meaningful ways.

Working out just how they do this will be important in understanding the likely impacts of ocean acidification on coral communities elsewhere, he says.

«The challenge is really first understanding what the natural variability looks like in this data - poor region, and then making measurements long enough that we can tease out the long - term ocean acidification trend, which is this gradual increase through time,» he said «It's really hard to see with just one or two years of data.»

Just this, spending about 1 — 2 % of WGP for the rest of the century reduces atmospheric CO2 to around 290 — 300 ppm (and solves the ocean acidification as well).

It's not just ocean acidification threatening these reefs, it's a number of factors including overfishing, disease, development and warming waters.

Many scientists concede that without drastic emissions reductions by 2020, we are on the path toward a 4C rise as early as mid-century, with catastrophic consequences, including the loss of the world's coral reefs; the disappearance of major mountain glaciers; the total loss of the Arctic summer sea - ice, most of the Greenland ice - sheet and the break - up of West Antarctica; acidification and overheating of the oceans; the collapse of the Amazon rainforest; and the loss of Arctic permafrost; to name just a few.

And just as for sea butterflies, the carbonate shortage that comes with ocean acidification means trouble for coral reefs.

He says Dixson's new research is troubling because it shows acidification doesn't just affect smaller fish, such as clown fish.

This disaster is just as devastating as the oily sheen that dominated the news after the BP spill in the Gulf of Mexico, and I am so grateful to Wendy and XPRIZE for identifying acidification as the next big ocean priority the U.S. must address.

I suppose that if all uncertainties are resolved in the direction of lower risk, we just might get away with BAU for the next few decades without a complete disaster (though continued sea level rise, ocean acidification and 2 degrees Celsius actually sound pretty risky to me, and the risk that there are other factors in play seems to be reinforced by paleo data on glacial - interglacial transitions).

OT: I just happened across an excellent newish ocean acidification blog.

There was a question asked up - thread about ocean acidification, and serendipitously a new paper has just appeared (press release pasted below).

Apparently ocean acidification will affect more than just shells (excerpt from a post on the blog of EPOCA — the European Project on Ocean Acifification):

I know nothing about this issue, but I just came across a reference to Jacobson, Mark Z., «Studying ocean acidification with conservative, stable numerical schemes for nonequilibrium air - ocean exchange and ocean equilibrium chemistry.»

Alarmed at the pace of change to our Earth caused by human - induced climate change, including accelerating melting and loss of ice from Greenland, the Himalayas and Antarctica, acidification of the world's oceans due to rising CO2 concentrations, increasingly intense tropical cyclones, more damaging and intense drought and floods, including glacial lakes outburst loods, in many regions and higher levels of sea - level rise than estimated just a few years ago, risks changing the face of the planet and threatening coastal cities, low lying areas, mountainous regions and vulnerable countries the world over,

Still, the VAST balance of published acidification studies (on calcifying animals and non-animals) show just the opposite, as Langdon points out.

«But before we begin can we just clarify which form of «acidification» you are dealing with?

Most of the gas is just absorbed by the water column, increasing acidification in the region and contributing to anoxia.

In fact it is a very risky target for all of us: so far, temperatures have increased by just.8 degree Celsius and we are already experiencing many alarming impacts, including the unprecedented melting of the Greenland ice sheet in the summer of 2012 and the acidification of oceans far more rapidly than expected.

Just point out how rong it is to suggest this study means acidification is not a serious threat to marine life.

The vulnerable nations declared that they are, «Alarmed at the pace of change to our Earth caused by human - induced climate change, including accelerating melting and loss of ice from Greenland, the Himalayas and Antarctica, acidification of the world's oceans due to rising CO2 concentrations, increasingly intense tropical cyclones, more damaging and intense drought and floods, including Glacial Lakes Outburst Floods, in many regions and higher levels of sea - level rise than estimated just a few years ago, risks changing the face of the planet and threatening coastal cities, low lying areas, mountainous regions and vulnerable countries the world over...»

Oh, and for the record, I don't just look at this example, I do read many other studies into ocean acidification.

There are no radical departures in this report from the previous assessment, published in 2007; just a great deal more evidence demonstrating the extent of global temperature rises, the melting of ice sheets and sea ice, the retreat of the glaciers, the rising and acidification of the oceans and the changes in weather patterns (3).

I just found out there's much worse disaster to worry about than climate destabilization and ocean acidification...

Just curious John if your meaning of «cheap» means you do nt believe there are such things as externalities like climate change and 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.»

It's no coincidence that the ocean acidification narrative began in the early 2000s — just as it was beginning to dawn on the climate alarmists that global temperatures weren't going to plan.

There are just some very fundamental issues that solar radiation management can't deal with — ocean acidification, often forgotten and certainly overlooked by the solar radiation management advocates, is a very profound change to the Earth's system.

That was from an excerpt of just 3 pages of The Rational Optimist: How prosperity evolves regarding coral reefs and ocean acidification.

Furthermore, by working in controlled areas of a natural reef community, Caldeira, Albright, and their team were able to demonstrate how acidification affects coral reefs on the ecosystem scale, not just in terms of individual organisms or species, as other studies have done.

Keep up the good work, I for one am sleeping better knowing you're debunking those climate change nutters, who, as far as I'm concerned, are probably just basing their conclusions on irrelevant things like record summer temperatures, melting ice - caps, rising sea levels, weather chaos, increasing crop failures, species extinction, ocean acidification... blah, blah, blah.

From the little I know from presentations by Marine Biologists, acidification is just an aspect of more general concerns.

And «oh, but it's just surface acidification» doesn't count.

I once thought ocean acidification was a problem just like I once thought CO2 was going to cause Earth to overheat.

A new study in the Arctic north shows that water at the higher latitudes are undergoing as serious changes as other areas, but they're changing at an even faster rate.Physorg writes that researchers from nine European countries have turned a coal mine village off the coast of Ny - Aalesund, just shy of 750 miles from the North Pole, into a laboratory site during July in a major effort to understand how ocean acidification is altering the northern water.

«Many scientists concede that without drastic emissions reductions by 2020, we are on the path toward a 4C rise as early as mid-century, with catastrophic consequences, including the loss of the world's coral reefs; the disappearance of major mountain glaciers; the total loss of the Arctic summer sea - ice, most of the Greenland ice - sheet and the break - up of West Antarctica; acidification and overheating of the oceans; the collapse of the Amazon rainforest; and the loss of Arctic permafrost; to name just a few.

As to the effects of nuclear accidents in general, consider that Chernobyl was a «worse than worst case» accident, yet the Earth kept on ticking just fine: no temperature increase, no Arctic ice melt, no ocean acidification... Indeed, it seems that for most creatures life in the so - called «dead zone» is a distinct improvement on previous condidtions.

Knowledge of Global Warming Causes & Effects Weak At Best Though 87 % of Americans have heard of the greenhouse effect, only 57 % of people know that it refers to gases in the atmosphere trapping heat, with 13 % never having heard the term; 50 % of people know that global warming is mostly caused by human activity; 45 % of people understanding that CO2 traps heat; just 25 % of people have even heard the terms coral bleaching or ocean acidification.

Acidification, sea level, regional impacts — you name it, and they seem dead certain that it's all OK and we can just keep on burning fossil.

Droughts, fires, more extreme weather, sea level rise, ocean acidification... these are just the primary, direct consequences as our planet gets hotter.