Sentences with phrase «problem of ocean acidification»

This is a test farm, where Betsy Peabody of the Puget Sound Restoration Fund and a team of scientists are doing an experiment to see whether seaweed can help fight the growing problem of ocean acidification — caused mainly by increasing carbon dioxide levels in the seas.

-LSB-...] ongoing problem of ocean acidification, triggered by the oceans absorbing CO2.

I urge you to find the time to view a 20 minute documentary on the problem of ocean acidification produced by the international Natural Resource Defence Council.

• Stop the Problem of Ocean Acidification Global warming has been a hot topic in the ocean world, and it is because of ocean acidification, known as «the other global warming problem.»

For comparison, the «conservative congressman'that Livesey and Davies were speaking about was Bob Inglis, who, during his final House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology hearing (at the 2:11:47 point here), brought out the remains of an egg in a jar of vinegar in order to bring attention to the problem of ocean acidification.

Moreover, it would not solve the problem of ocean acidification — sometimes referred to as «global warming's evil twin» — a major threat to marine ecosystems that only 20 % of the British public has ever heard of.

We discuss the problem of ocean acidification fairly often on TreeHugger, but Veron puts it succinctly, «The potential consequences of ocean acidification are nothing less than catastrophic.»

OVERFISHING • Stop the Problem of Ocean Acidification Global warming has been a hot topic in the ocean world, and it is because of ocean acidification, known as «the other global warming problem.»

At two booths in the public and the UN area, BIOACID members inform about their work and answer questions about the problem of ocean acidification and other topics of marine sciences.

From microscopic plankton to species» interactions in the marine ecosystem and from elemental biogeochemical cycling to the consequences for economy and society: The German project BIOACID (Biological Impacts of Ocean Acidification) analyses the problem of ocean acidification in its entire spectrum.

«The other carbon dioxide problem», «the evil twin of global warming», or part of a «deadly trio», together with increasing temperatures and loss of oxygen: Many names have been coined to describe the problem of ocean acidification — a change in the ocean chemistry that occurs when carbon dioxide (CO2) from the atmosphere dissolves in seawater.

How would that affect the problem of ocean acidification?

Sunlight - blocking particles would fail to solve the problems of ocean acidification and dying corals, two significant repercussions of climate change, according to a study by Ken Caldeira of Stanford University and the Carnegie Institution, Damon Matthews of Concordia University, and Long Cao of the Carnegie Institution.

Not exact matches

Fisheries are «the ultimate canary in the coal mine of ocean acidification,» says Brad Warren, the former editor and publisher of Pacific Fishing magazine, who recently launched the nonprofit Sustainable Fisheries Partnership to encourage seafood enterprises to confront the problem through policy initiatives.

Ocean acidification and rising sea levels could cause problems for the shellfish the knots depend on in Tierra del Fuego and the Gulf of Mexico.

Local pressures, in particular overfishing, destructive fishing, and pollution from nearby land - based human activity, are paramount, but global warming has caused increased bleaching and ocean acidification, which makes it harder for corals to grow, compounding the problems, the World Resources Institute (WRI) and 24 other organizations concluded in «Reefs at Risk Revisited,» an update of a 1998 report.

Recent research has shown that the expected doubling of CO2 concentrations could inhibit the development of some calcium - shelled organisms, including phytoplankton, which are at the base of a large and complex marine ecosystem (see Ocean acidification: the other CO2 problem).

And while most of the disasters foreseen in the book have not occurred, environmental problems overlooked at the time have become more threatening, such as the acidification of the oceans and the release of hormone - mimicking chemicals into the environment.

In the special arenas within a problem like climate change, you have pretty small groups of scientists working on problems like Greenland's ice or Arctic sea ice or ocean acidification.

This is, in itself, a very serious problem because it leads to the acidification of the oceans, since CO2 forms carbonic acid in water.

I have a sort of mental chart with lots of arrows: actions that produce GHGs (e.g., coal - burning) causing a plethora of problems (& goods — like power), acid rain, ocean acidification, local ground, air, water pollution, GW, health problems & dangers for miners, military threats / expenses (according to Pentagon studies re oil), etc.; and also many arrows of good (some bad) coming out of measures to abate GW.

If ocean acidification requires, as you say, [dumping chemicals there] why would that be necessary since increasing CO2 atmospheric concentrations are not an AGW problem rather a consequence of increased ocean acidification.

Rising marine temperatures, ocean acidification and a seemingly insurmountable ocean plastic problem are topics that can be intimidating and are largely out of sight, out of mind for the average consumer.

The acidification of our oceans is a huge problem, and I would go as far as to say it is our largest problem.

Unless and until there are a slew of such studies covering a wide variety of real world circumstances, then I fear that the real problem of «ocean acidification» is a lot of «scientists» looking desperately to find something to scare us about.

Yes, ocean acidification is too little - known, and, like the overall problem of climate change, too often considered to be something for the future only.

C: increase in atmospheric CO2 from pre-industrial to present is anthropogenic (D / A) S: best guess for likely climate sensitivity (NUM) s: 2 - sigma range of S (NUM) a: ocean acidification will be a problem (D / A) L: expected sea level rise by 2100 in cm (all contributions)(NUM) B: climate change will be beneficial (D / A) R: CO2 emissions need to be reduced drastically by 2050 (D / A) T: technical advances will take care of any problems (D / A) r: the 20th century global temperature record is reliable (D / A) H: over the last 1000 years global temperature was hockey stick shaped (D / A) D: data has been intentionally distorted by scientist to support the idea of anthropogenic climate change (D / A) g: the CRU - mails are important for the science (D / A) G: the CRU - mails are important otherwise (D / A)

«[The research] demonstrates that proposed technological solutions, like CDR, to the problems of global warming and ocean acidification are no substitute for reducing carbon emissions, which remains the safest and most reliable path for avoiding dangerous climate change.»

I'm against Ocean Acidification theory because I've done loads and loads of background reading... about the lack of credible scientific evidence that it represents any kind of problem... in the eyes of all those undecideds who can't make up their mind whether they agree with me on climate science or whether I'm talking bollocks...»

This study of course does not take away very different concerns related to stratospheric aerosol SRM geoengineering, like possible damage to the ozone layer [which in turn would be good news if you hate waiting for that spring tan] and the fact that allowing CO2 concentrations to keep rising presents other problems, like the necessity to never stop with the active process of SRM geoengineering, and increasing ecological damage caused by ocean acidification.

It is worth noting that, although these technologies could theoretically lower global warming, they do not aim to reduce the amount of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere and, therefore, would not be able to directly address problems such as ocean acidification.

What L&D neglect to mention is that Caldeira has actually come out against geoengineering using SO2 at this time for reasons entirely unrelated to global temperatures — it only treats one of the symptoms (rising global temperatures), does nothing for ocean acidification and other carbon dioxide (CO2) related problems, and is therefore too risky.

Carbon dioxide however does pose a problem for the oceans, contributing to coral bleaching and acidification of natural waters.

Ocean acidification is a problem of scale.

Excepting again that darned ocean acidification, about which there would also have to be some scientific refutation of the problem.

A far more reasonable comparison of Downey and Idso would have used the Annual Reviews of Marine Science article, «Ocean Acidification: The Other CO2 Problem,» with Downey as lead author (http://www.annualreviews.org/eprint/QwPqRGcRzQM5ffhPjAdT/full/10.1146/annurev.marine.010908.163834) originally cited by R. Gates.

New reports indicate that ocean acidification is becoming a real problem in waters off of Washington State and could affect the Southern Ocean a lot sooner than we thoocean acidification is becoming a real problem in waters off of Washington State and could affect the Southern Ocean a lot sooner than we thoOcean a lot sooner than we thought.

Temperature is a moot point anyway; the real problem, to me, is ocean acidification i.e. the largest scale titration of the oceans.

And using the oceans as a sink causes acidification that scientists now think may cause the most rapid and disruptive change to life in the seas since catastrophic events tens of millions of years ago (see Ocean acidification due to increasing atmospheric carbon dioxide, Royal Society, August 2005 and The other CO2 problem, New Scientist, August 2006).

Davenport, meanwhile, said ocean acidification is» one of these concrete problems, concrete changes that people are paying attention to and that are having economic effects right now.

If the only problem is acidification of the ocean, it's made more invisible, and easier to ignore.

And then with salt water you have the problem of sea level rise and ocean acidification.

«Even if we could engineer our way out of the climate problem, we will be stuck with the ocean acidification problem,» Caldeira said.