Comments on: Ocean Acidification: Worse Than the Big Problem We Thought It Was

By: frank russell

frank russell — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 23:26:44 +0000

see yah !

By: frank russell

frank russell — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 23:25:16 +0000

to:doug says,
i’m 66 -spent 33 of those years(approx) in california,
surfing,ocean fishing,etc
another 33 years in chicago,il
i can assure you something “BIG” is definitely
happening to our climate.
i do not pretend to know what it is-(global warming)(CO2)
who really knows?
i kind of think its all of us contributing to global warming,
but-also i know from literature that we are years overdue for
another “mini” ice age.its possible we might be accidentally-
actually saving our atmosphere.
but also afraid we are too early on pollution to save it.
beleive me :you do not want to experience the consequences,
that will come (some already have).

sincerely

By: doug l

doug l — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 17:01:03 +0000

So…if you believe adding CO2 will warm the ocean, then we have no problem since the oceans will release even more CO2…it can only hold what it can hold and the warmer it is, especially at the surface the less it can hold, contrary to what some might think. If you think that CO2 doesn’t warm the environment, then the amount of CO2 in the surface water could turn it acidic but really, the amount in the atmosphere is minor compared to what the oceans will hold, and indeed already do as the planets greatest CO2 source. Either way, it looks like somebody is pining their research on the “what if something terrible happens” despite the manifestly robust and resilient state of our planet’s climate.

By: Greg

Greg — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 06:16:57 +0000

This is very disturbing, however I am hoping it is merely a localized phenomenon and not representitive of an unexpectedly accelerating global acidification problem. If it is a global problem then mass extinctions of marine life are just around the corner. The reverberating effects up and down the ecosystem will very likely be ones we will not like. Perhaps then impending economic devastation may propel governments to take more action, or perhaps not. It conceivable that if this CO2 emission problem is not tackled effectively in the next 50 years or sooner that it could set into motion a spiral of events to such chaos (I.e. World hunger and world wars over diminishing food resources) that we may come to face the possibility of our own extinction.

By: Ken Brown

Ken Brown — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 21:04:27 +0000

The plight of the antarctic remains the canary of the seas rapidly changing to become another source putting carbon in to the atmosphere as the Antarctic Ocean which holds a tenth of a percent (0.1%) of the worlds protein as phytoplankton, krill, etc. Yet little has been published on the change in its temperature increase driving that change.