Posted on 06/29/2015 2:44:18 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
OSLO (Reuters) - Pink salmon in the Pacific Ocean face a double threat of acidification linked to greenhouse gas emissions since it slows their early growth in rivers and disrupts the chemistry of seawater, a study showed on Monday.
Impacts have in the past been more studied in the seas than in fresh water. But the Canadian study found that acidification of rivers could make young pink salmon, the most abundant type in the Pacific, smaller and more vulnerable to predators by dampening their ability to smell danger.
Damage done by acidification "in fresh water in pink salmon could occur in all other salmonids", Colin Brauner, a co-author at the University of British Columbia, told Reuters. The findings were published in the journal Nature Climate Change.
Carbon dioxide, the main greenhouse gas caused by burning fossil fuels, reacts with water to produce a weak acid. That especially threatens creatures ranging from oysters to lobsters which find it harder to build protective shells.
An international study in 2013 said acidification of the oceans was happening at the fastest pace for 55 million years, because of human greenhouse gas emissions.
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Johnny Appleseed is the solution. Increase the vegetation in the North Pacific, especially near the rivers. Let lumber companies plant massive farms with planned harvesting belts that are quickly replanted with already half-grown trees. In the long run, tree farms are best for endangered species...and the not-so-endangered as well.
Journal Climate Change????? Really? I would have thought the study would show no impact and call for a shutdown of the magazine and all monies available for climate change studies.
I guess I am just too negative and they are very trustworthy.
I thought “Darwin” was supposed to be more clever than this. Acidproof salmon anyone?
As far as I know the pH of the oceans is still above 7 - therefore not “acidic”.
All caused by the presence of Delta Smelt.
“Carbon dioxide, the main greenhouse gas “
What happened to water vapor?
Are pink panthers going to be OK?
Peter Sellers is dead...
Burt Kwouk is still alive though...
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