Beam me to Planet Gore !
Posted on 10/04/2009 2:45:30 PM PDT by cyst
Carbon-dioxide emissions are turning the waters of the Arctic Ocean into acid at an unprecedented rate, scientists have discovered. Research carried out in the archipelago of Svalbard has shown in many regions around the north pole seawater is likely to reach corrosive levels within 10 years. The water will then start to dissolve the shells of mussels and other shellfish and cause major disruption to the food chain. By the end of the century, the entire Arctic Ocean will be corrosively acidic.
"This is extremely worrying," Professor Jean-Pierre Gattuso, of France's Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, told an international oceanography conference last week. "We knew that the seas were getting more acidic and this would disrupt the ability of shellfish – like mussels – to grow their shells. But now we realise the situation is much worse. The water will become so
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Yes, if you happen to be gay or insane.
I think I’ll have another beer and ponder my fate.
Don’t worry, globul warming will save us by melting the ice caps, which will add so much water, it will neutralize the acid.
Bull Obama.
I’m not a chemist so have no clue how CO2 makes water into acid...hehe
...Ms. Weaver was serious as a heart attack, but Steve, Gretchen and Brian were trying really hard not to laugh out loud and be respectful....
....it was fun to watch.
The vast majority of sheeple living on the planet have never personally seen the Arctic Ocean and never will; making it easy for the envirowackos to tell them anything they want about it. It’s a boiling cauldron off acid now - sure, why not.
Oh brother.
People would walk quicker to get by and do their best not to make eye contact.
But these days - I bet you can't find those ranting nuts in Times Square anymore.
Now there are probably one or two happy people holding a “Relax Everything Is Alright” sign.
Sir, I’ll have you know that President Obama is well versed in the PH of the waters off of the “archipelago of Svalbard”. How dare you sir. How dare you.
http://www.livescience.com/environment/080627-sea-volcanoes.html “The eruptions discharge large amounts of carbon dioxide, helium, trace metals and heat into the water over long distances, he said. “
It’s a fairly well established mechanism where CO2 dissolves in water to form a very mild carbonic acid. All through the Mississippi valley are numerous caves in the limestone bedrock that formed from mildly acidic rainwater percolating through millions of years ago. Now the eco-freakos want to ‘dispose’ of CO2 by pumping it underground into porous rock where is can enter into solution in the aquafer water. If they think that natural CO2 will be a hazard to shellfish, what happens when CONCENTRATED carbonic acid dissolves the limestone out from beneath our cities?
Ping.
My favorite Fox person, Brian, wasn’t serious, his last remark to her was something like, “we should keep an eye out for plankton especially if you are a blue whale”
I'm guessing the only cities where they'll try this are the liberal ones. Is it terribly wrong of me to feel some desire to encourage this particular behavior?
Stop all sewage treatment to make sure that pee reaches the ocean to neutralize rhe acid!
Seawater is plenty corrosive already...! LOL
umm... sea water is already corrosive and acidic. what’s the story here?
Acid rain redeux
Excuse me but doesn’t cold liquid hold CO2 naturally?
And what shellfish live in the arctic?
OH NOOOO we are DOOMED Messiah please help us save the world.More Bs from the left. gimmie another Heni and a cold glass.
I don't know why I posted this pic, it just seemed like the right thingy dingy toodo.
“pissin in the waters of life” L0L
Actually its a giant MENTOS causing the explosive release of carbon dioxide.
Ah, you've never seen Deadliest Catch, I see...
At any rate, I would think that even if there is merit to this rather overheated argument, it should be fairly easy to engineer a solution; surely there would be some kind of base that could be dumped into the Arctic to neutralize the acid.
Thats at the edge of the arctic.
Anyhow. The water is fine.
Can you get that in plaster. I have been threatening to convert my back yard to a plaza with a fountain, this is it.
Well the obvious solution is to pass the cap and trade/cap and tax bill.
And don’t forget to buy your carbon credits, if you have money left over after your energy costs and utility bills skyrocket with cap and trade.
10 because that's the number of fingers they happen to have. I wish humans had 8 fingers instead, a power of two. That would have made for a more natural measuring system, easier math conversion with computers, and for things like stock market auctions where bidders often meet sellers half way.
My Step Brother hated the Idea and being the lunitic Italian and Marine that he is accepted the two lawn jockies that I gave him.
How can any rational human being take these fools seriously any longer?
“base that could be dumped into the Arctic to neutralize the acid.”
How about a couple of 10-billion ton Alka-Seltzer tablets?;)
“rational human being”
Their numbers are shrinking. Proof: Obama is President;)
Mark
Back in college, without realizing it, I began to balance my checkbook in octal. Not a good thing.
Mark
Yawn...
It’s getting harder to tell the difference between Scrappleface and Guardian articles.
May as well spent all my savings. I’ll surely not live to old age.
“More carbon dioxide can dissolve in cold water than warm,” he said. “Hence the problem of acidification is worse in the Arctic than in the tropics, though we have only recently got round to studying the problem in detail.”
Up until 1990 this would have made sense, since then the waters of the poles have been warming and would therefore be less likely to continue taking up more CO2 by his reasoning; perhaps any increase he may have found recently or expects to find could be coming from the sediment at the sea’s bottom.
Or he is a dry seat sailor.
I don’t think this guy knows how much water is in the ocean.
It is my understanding that at given atmospheres CO2 converts to liquid. As the liquid surfaces in the Polar Regions the freezing temperature should convert this liquid CO2 to dry snow or dry ice depending on the volume. This dry ice or snow is more stable than H2O ice and should add stability to the Polar Regions.
I don’t see the concern the French have.
Its called carbolic acid. Carbonates, as anyone with an aquarium knows will buffer the water and not allow the Ph to lower. There is so much carbonate in the oceans, that if we tried with all our technology to acidify them, we could not. This is just another scare tactic with no foundation in reality.
The Ph of the oceans is over 8 which makes it Basic. The ability of mankind to turn it acid is ... nil.
None of the Oceans are acidic and nothing mankind can do within the foreseeable future could possibly change that.
OMG Pickled herrings!
I hate to be so, but this is just silly, carbolic acid would have a hard time dissolving limestone, calcium carbonate. What would it do replace one carbon atom with another?
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