Ocean Acidification

ABC's World News Webcast has this Clayton Sandell report on the new danger facing the world's oceans thanks to global warming: the oceans are not only becoming warmer, they're more acidic.

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Science & Technology

Tags:

• global
• warming
• oceans
• sea
• life
• environment
• climate
• change

[StephanieLisaTara]

HAIKU

I hatch! Crawl! And swim!

Oh how I love my sweet life,

Don't pollute my home.

—A Green Sea Turtle

[quidproquo2004]

@david222444 The troposphere contains most of the mass of the atmosphere, so I have no idea what you mean by "0.038% of the atmosphere is in the troposphere." Secondly, it is a fact that the troposphere shows a warming trend and that the stratosphere shows a cooling trend: the definitive signature of global warming due to increased greenhouse gases.

I recommend you differentiate between the carbon balance maintained throughout the holocene and the rapid CO2 increase observed this century.

[david222444]

@WolYou Oxygen is toxic to these bacteria is it not?

[david222444]

@quidproquo2004 Yes they do think it is make believe. 0.038% of the atmosphere is in the troposphere ( which is now cooling) causing global warming and it is also dissolving in the ocean causing acidification. This co2 must be horrible stuff , its a pity that it is essential to life on the planet. A planet without co2 is a dead planet.

[david222444]

The oceans are a gigantic sinks for co2 . Cold oceans hold more co2, warm oceans liberate co2. A trace gas in the atmosphere cannot acidify the oceans which are miles deep and cover most of the planet. The climate is controlled by the Sun's effect on the oceans and atmosphere. Millions of volcanoes are located under the Oceans. These volcanoes will affect the co2 levels in the Ocean depths and not 0.038% co2 in the atmosphere.

[donsjuand]

@TRUMPHENT I've heard CO2 weighs enough to fall.

[Jehovasin]

I poopied my pants

[bdhcarbon]

Here is what is strange to me. While its acceptable to believe that 380ppm CO2 in our ATM is and will increasingly acidify our oceans, which holds a tremendous amount of mass, chemistry and buffers, somehow people claim 'ohhhh how can such a small ppm in our ATM have an impact on global temps?'.

Also, climate change deniers say 'the globe is so big, we can NOT have an impact...', yet acidification is another clear proof that we obviously can.

My opinion is that we are in major trouble.

[quidproquo2004]

I wonder why the climate change denialists don't think ocean acidification is make believe as well.

[mbeauty59]

this is true ... and us humans are distoying our earth!!