Sentences with phrase «call acidification»

Scientists call acidification of the oceans the hidden partner of climate change.

If the process of moving a substance from a ph of 14 to 13 is called acidification, then we lose descriminative power when we want a word to describe something moving from ph 9 to ph 6.

If not then we have nothing to do with the so - called acidification (more properly called neutralization).

Not exact matches

Each year the oceans absorb CO2 from the atmosphere and become more acidic, a process called ocean acidification.

Survival of Dungeness crab larvae, called zoeae, declined at the lower pH levels expected with ocean acidification.

It includes 42 recommendations for state action, including calls for stronger regulation of carbon emissions and other land - based pollutants that contribute to acidification.

Marine biologist John Bruno of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill calls current ocean acidification data «trivial, because you can't buy cheap little devices to monitor [in place].»

The budget also calls for expanding NOAA's existing efforts to study ocean acidification and for upgrading the National Weather Service's infrastructure.

But the result is what's called «ocean acidification,» which, on its own, may add a half a degree to warming this century.

This worrisome trend is called ocean acidification (see SNK story «Sea changes»).

The final workshop report, called The Honolulu Declaration on Ocean Acidification and Reef Management, outlines a suite of policy and management practices that will guide the initial and urgent steps required to give coral reefs the best chance of coping with ocean aAcidification and Reef Management, outlines a suite of policy and management practices that will guide the initial and urgent steps required to give coral reefs the best chance of coping with ocean acidificationacidification.

This process is called ocean acidification.

Although these methods potentially interfere with weather patterns and fail to reduce carbon dioxide concentrations and ocean acidification, Victor and colleagues call for a broad and solid foundation of geoengineering research.

We have recently published a book in the Oxford University Press called «Ocean acidification» where I looked at the literature and in 2010 more than 600 authors have published on this topic!

It's making them more acidic, a process called ocean acidification.

Raised CO2 in aquatic systems can also lead to physiological stress, difficulty in building calcareous shells etc. (as will happen if atmospheric CO2 continues to build up beyond around 700ppm - the so called ocean acidification effect).

In Wignall's work, I noticed these papers on extinction events are missing the so - called evil twin of climate change, ocean acidification.

My point is that some recent reports (e.g. the Ocean Acidification post based on the Royal Society Report here at RC) call for drastic emissions cuts but don't seem to back that up in their conclusions.

To take an extreme case, it would seem odd to call a change from a pH of 14 to 13.8 an acidification, but maybe that is how the term is used in technical contexts.

Climate change is prominently featured as one of these multiple stressors (as, for marine environments, is ocean acidification, which Ms. Kolbert calls climate change's «equally evil twin.»)

This phenomenon, which is commonly called «ocean acidification,» could have profound impacts on some of the most fundamental biological and geochemical processes of the sea in coming decades.

It so happens that a process which reduces the pH of a solution is by convention called «acidification».

If I take a substance that is alkaline and I move it toward a ph of 7 we observe that people have called this: neutralization, lowering ph and acidification

B moving alkaline water below 7 is acidification C moving acidic fresh water from 6 to 4 is also acidification D) moving acidic fresh water toward neutral is neutralization E) when you buy a device that takes acidic fresh water and its moved above ph 7, that device is called an alkalinizer.

They chose to call it «acidification» but could have used «Bob» or «Charlie» for all anybody cared.

But considered as complete solutions to climate change, they too have their problems: First, they do nothing to address ocean acidification, which Elizabeth Kolbert calls «global warming's equally evil twin.»

Ocean acidification and pollution are what will call a halt to all this human acivity.

Further, since all these molluscs are seemingly making shells with no noticeable change in weight, it calls into question alarmist fears over ocean acidification meaning the end of shell fish in the oceans.

Some of which include more variable weather, increasing sea ice melt, rising sea levels and ocean waters with more CO2, also called ocean acidification, which can harm ecosystems and has an impact on coral reefs.

Ocean neutralisation (sometimes erroneously called «acidification»).?

«For example, there was a call coming out on slow - onset events, which, in the UNFCCC language, means sea - level rise, glacial retreat, ocean acidification, desertification.

Calling the risk to coral «acidification» is giving sceptics an easy target to attack.

In order to establish a cause - and - effect relationship between acidification and decreased calcification, a team led by Carnegie's Ken Caldeira and including Jacob Silverman (the lead author) and Kenneth Schneider, formerly of Carnegie, compared measurements of the rate of calcification in one segment of Australia's Great Barrier Reef called Bird Island that were taken in between 1975 and 1979 to those made at the neighboring Lizard Island in 2008 and 2009.

If we only added half the amount of acid needed, we wouldn't call that «insufficient acidification».

The ocean absorbs some of the excess atmospheric CO2, which causes what scientists call ocean acidification.

Coral reefs are threatened by rising water temperatures, ocean acidification, and sea - level rise.3, 5 Coral reefs typically live within a specific range of temperature, light, and concentration of carbonate in seawater.6 When increases in ocean temperature or ultraviolet light stress the corals, they lose their colorful algae, leaving only transparent coral tissue covering their white calcium - carbonate skeletons.6 This phenomenon is called coral bleaching.

Adding acid to an alkaline solution was called «neutralization», and not ever «acidification».

Call for carbon - dioxide levels to be brought down to 350 ppm to prevent ocean acidification and huge economic losses.

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.

If the pH level falls you can't call it «acidification» until it drops below 7, or neutral.