Acidifying oceans of the future

wa wa wa, let me play the smallest violin

There is no credible scenario whereby the ocean's 1.3 billion cubic kilometers of seawater could have their pH dropped so much. There's simply not enough fossil fuel to burn.

Leave an open door for this theory, they might just be right, you know

HOW TO TALK TO A CLIMATE SKEPTIC
gristmill.grist. org/skeptics

The journal Nature has an excellent library of information:
nature. com/climate/index.html

There's also this website from a top British scientific academy. They provide responses to the misleading arguments "put forward by those who seek to distort and undermine the science of climate change."

royalsociety. org/page. asp?id=6229

gristmill.grist. org/story/2006/11/19/51921/827

The models predicted:

1. surface warming accompanied by cooling of the stratosphere
2. warming of the lower, mid, and upper troposphere
3. warming of ocean surface waters
4. energy imbalance between incoming sunlight and outgoing infrared radiation
5. sharp and short-lived cooling of a few tenths of a degree in the event of large volcanic eruptions
6. amplification of warming trends in the Arctic region

All of these predictions came true.

It's easy to make predictions come true when the people doing the research are looking and hoping to find a specific finding. The most effective researcher is one who has NO interest in their field of study, then there is no risk of bias. But all these green freaks and trying their best to proof these ideas right, rather then letting data speak for itself.

Where are you getting your info from? O2 is a plant waste product.

To get this straight: Plants produce both. O2 during photosynthesis and CO2 during night time (when there is no sun for photosythesis). But thats not the problem. The ecosystem will change. And we won't be able adapt in this short period of time. The development is catastrophic and not long term slow motion. You may compare the situation by imaging 150 pinatubo-sized volcanoes erupting at the same time. Thats the amount of CO2 we humans are adding to the atmosphere each and every year.

plants perform cellular respiration as well as photosynthesis

Azorean is right. Photosynthesis requires O2 as well as CO2, but yields a net of more O2 after converting CO2 to sugars. At night when there is no sunlight, however, plants expire a net of CO2, but not nearly as much as they uptake during the day.