Acidifying oceans of the future

Natural CO2 vents on the floor of the ocean cause differing levels of acidity. How does this effect marine life?

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• Ocean
• life
• sealife
• CO2
• algae
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[nancidrew4]

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.

[nancidrew4]

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

[ShangoRaiden]

amillionmonkeys.blog.com  aren't you curious?

[StephanieLisaTara]

HAIKU

I hatch! Crawl! And swim!

Oh how I love my sweet life,

But—why’s the sea so warm?

—A Green Sea Turtle

[figbat1]

they estimate the singularity to be at 1000 trillion degrees celsius or more at the time of the big bang. this is how all the matter fitted into it.....it was so f u c k i n g hot, just like slash or deepak. im just wondering how does a singularity gets to this sort of temeperature on its own accord.......?

[figbat1]

so "new scientist" magazine this week is going to explain how the universe appeared out of nothing. good luck with that one. whenever i try to get my mind around that one i always end up getting lost. i suppose you are going to wheel out steve hawking to explain it. why not try deepak.....have you seen how thick his glasses are...he must be a genius! i would rather listen to justin biebers explanation...because the proper answer is .." I HAVE NO IDEA...YOU CANT CREATE SOMETHING OUT OF NOTHING"

[david222444]

Only the millions of underwater volcanoes could acidify oceans. The rest is scaremongering for bucks.

[DeadHappyFilm]

SO...What they are saying is there have been millions upon millions upon millions upon millions of Co2 coming out in our own atmosphere naturally for millions of years and we are still here? I think the environmentalist are overreacting just a little bit. I know it is important to help the environment but they make it sound like we are going to die in the next 100 years or something.

[TheBrightPulse]

@CookieLoveAngel13 with future life extension technology you problably could if you wanted to.

[TheRealArchAngel]

"2100 phew ill be dead"

We;ll,they are hoping anyway that way if they are wrong nobody would be around that cares

won't stop the people from reading history and comparing the Nutters that thought there was pollution cause Cooling in the 70's and comparing them to the nutters in the early 2000 thinking there was pollution caused heating

And of course in both cases they will find it was media hype in thge internet/global media age v.s. sensationalist/reactionary Periodicals in the 70's

[TheRealArchAngel]

pffft

The Acidification isn't from the CO2,it's from the other volcanic gases they failed to mention

High CO2 does leach Calcium from the water,however,making it nutritionally deficient for a\animals that get their shell building material from the water thus the weak shells

[CookieLoveAngel13]

At 2100 i will be 100 years old. . . lets see if i can make it. . .