Comments on: Ocean Acidifi-WHAT?!

By: The Other Carbon Dioxide Problem | The Intersection | Discover Magazine

Thu, 16 Sep 2010 14:31:06 +0000

[...] post last week on ocean acidification received a good deal of attention around the web and I’m pleased, as this critical subject [...]

By: Recycle

Recycle — Wed, 15 Sep 2010 08:27:20 +0000

There are some great suggestions in this post! I also enjoy watching the tips on GreenopolisTV’s YouTube channel at http://www.youtube.com/greenopolistv because they always give me great ideas of things to do to help the environment too.

By: The Gulf’s real enemy | theCLog

The Gulf’s real enemy | theCLog — Mon, 13 Sep 2010 17:19:57 +0000

[...] called ocean acidification, and it’s caused by carbon dioxide gas released into the air from burning fossil fuels. In the [...]

By: Saturday Link Roundup | Empowered Thought

Saturday Link Roundup | Empowered Thought — Sun, 12 Sep 2010 03:58:06 +0000

[...] Ocean Acidifi-WHAT?!The other problem with increasing CO2 levels. [...]

By: Lee Davis

Lee Davis — Fri, 10 Sep 2010 05:00:05 +0000

I’d heard of ocean acidification and became even more interested in it when articles and blogs came out about its effects on crustaceans like this one over at 80beats:

http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2009/12/02/prepare-for-a-lobster-full-future-acidic-oceans-could-help-some-critters/

As an artist, I decided to do a conceptual painting on subject here(Blue Crab):

http://www.leedavisarts.com/Gallery/2010/2010.html

It certainly garners interesting conversations when I talk with people about the subject that inspired the piece.

By: David

David — Thu, 09 Sep 2010 19:06:45 +0000

GM:

No, I am not disputing pH, I am just amazed at the attitude of using that for the opening line of a document addressed *to researchers* in their guide for research and data reporting. If you take the time to read their documentation, the whole “don’t you dare say anything but the party line” attitude is pretty high handed.

By: Eric the Leaf

Eric the Leaf — Thu, 09 Sep 2010 18:07:43 +0000

@jld,
I think I get your continental drift. As Catton has stated: the future will be “as unavoidable as it will be unwelcome.”

–William R. Catton Jr., “Overshoot: The Ecological Basis of Revolutionary Change,” 1980, page vii.

By: jld

jld — Thu, 09 Sep 2010 17:00:39 +0000

Yeah, yeah, yeah, ocean acidification, climate change, resources depletion, population explosion, the Sixth Extinction, etc, etc…
How many things needs to become prominent on the national radar and a priority in policy discussions?
What do you expect?
Though you might notice a common factor to all these: speed of change (unmanageable…)

By: Gaythia

Gaythia — Thu, 09 Sep 2010 16:40:08 +0000

@Wavefunction, quibbling between chemists: Of course, I agree with you that the correct word is “react”. But I’d be interested in your ideas on conveying the concepts of chemical reaction equilibria to non chemists, and especially non scientists. I think that the problem with the word react, is that to those not initiated into chemical vocabulary, reactions sound as if they ought to be complete. This gives rise to the questions of readers and those in comments above who may be wondering why carbonate rocks at the ocean bottom wouldn’t just neutralize all of the excess acid.

Biologists get into similar problems with the use of the word “theory” as in Theory of Evolution. When are we better off using words that fit with preconceptions of the public, and when do we need to teach them more of the details of what we really mean?

See my #7 above.

By: GM

GM — Thu, 09 Sep 2010 15:07:56 +0000

9. David Says:
September 8th, 2010 at 11:38 pm
“Ocean acidiﬁcation is an undisputed fact.”
What a great opening line. Why research it at all if it is all decided already?

After spending years trying to discredit global temperature records (and pulling off some amazing feats of shameless lying with a straight face in the process), what’s next for the denialists – we’re going to try to show that pH meters are completely useless or what?