However, that estimate, like much else in the IPCC's mad gospels, is entirely guesswork, because there is no sufficiently well -
resolved global measurement program for ocean pH. However, elementary theoretical considerations would lead us to expect homoeostasis in the acid / base balance of the oceans because the buffering influence of the rock basins in which they live and move and have their being is overwhelmingly powerful.
In the short - term, a key issue that needs
resolving is the mismatch between
global methane budgets from top - down (derived from atmospheric
measurements) and bottom - up (derived from
measurements of methane emissions at the land surface from different methane producing environments) approaches.