At the weekend, Christopher Booker at the Daily Telegraph made another attempt (see previous) to downplay the obvious decreases in Arctic sea ice by (mis --RRB- quoting a statement from Arctic
oceanographer Ken Drinkwater and colleagues: More»
Haggling over that crucial amount of flux is why the paper took so long to appear, says Smetacek, but
oceanographer Ken Buesseler of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute in Massachusetts lauds the detailed calculations in an accompanying commentary in Nature, adding that the study «was similar to natural» algal blooms.
Not exact matches
«We found that mere absorption of CO2 from the atmosphere into the ocean was enough to harm marine creatures,» says
Ken Caldeira, a chemical
oceanographer now at the Carnegie Institution of Washington in Stanford, California.
«In terms of emissions, right now we're more likely on the orange line than on the blue, «said co-author
Ken Denman, an
oceanographer at the University of Victoria in Canada who is affiliated with Environment Canada.
Conditions may only worsen after 2100, warns
Ken Caldeira, a chemical
oceanographer at the Carnegie Institution.
Ocean acidification could devastate coral reefs and other marine ecosystems even if atmospheric carbon dioxide stabilizes at 450 ppm, a level well below that of many climate change forecasts, report chemical
oceanographers Long Cao and
Ken Caldeira of the Carnegie Institution's Department of Global Ecology in the journal Geophysical Research Letters.
Ken Buesseler, a chemical
oceanographer at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, and Henrieta Dulaiova, chemical
oceanographer at University of Hawaii have each been awarded a grant from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Division of Ocean Sciences to study the issue further, looking in to concentrations of radionuclides in both the Atlantic and Pacific oceans.