It seems we are doomed if the leftists don’t get to ration and control everything.
It’s a solid plan. People are easily scared, and once frightened, easily controlled.
These truly worthless “experts “ just can’t give up their grant money. Worthless parasites.
This crap again? I remember this was going to kill us in twenty years, forty years ago.
> The entire vertical scale of the chart goes from pH of 8.03 to 8.11 — less than 0.1 of a pH unit. <
All Climate Change data is like that. The “change” is within experimental error, and so is meaningless.
In the old days, scientists were free to make that point. But such skepticism is not permitted when it comes to Climate Change. It’s “settled science” dontcha know?
Great! we can now use sea water for industrial acid applications (if it continues at that rate for 800,000,000,000 more years.
This is like how they say you have a “carbon footprint” instead of a “carbon dioxide footprint.” In your mind, you think soot, not a colorless, odorless gas required to sustain life.
But you know what else is carbon? Diamonds. They’re nearly pure carbon. So I like to correct people to call it my “diamond footprint.” It’s just as accurate as “carbon footprint.” I mean, do you ask for a cup of hydrogen when you’re thirsty? No, they do this on purpose to scare the idiots.
Just like this so called “ocean acidification.” It scares the idiots who don’t know the pH scale. If anything, this should be called “ocean neutralization.” But even that’s a stretch too and not scary enough for all the idiots to give them money and power.
Need to reduce government grants more. Too much money out there and so called scientists are chasing the cash.
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If anything, it’s just less alkalinization, not acidification, as the pH is still greater than 7.
The phrase ‘ocean acidification’ was coined as recently as 2003 for the precise purpose of juicing up causes for climate alarm. A variety of dire consequences are conjured up, none of them robust enough to withstand scrutiny. Plenty of authentic science available to discount the whole fabricated ‘issue’.
People are afraid because it is easy to fear than educate oneself.
“Ocean “Acidification” — Another Fake Scare That Won’t Go Away”. Do they think the ocean is taking LSD?
One wonders how much marine acidification is due to atmospheric sulfur (acid rain) instead of dissolved CO2. In general, the equilibrium concentration of CO2 in water DECREASES with increasing temperature (think “beer” going flat as it warms up).
Hmm. Seems the salt content of seawater would make it an ideal buffer solution that would be at a constant pH since either alkaline or acidic compounds would be neutralized by free salt ions of various compositions. So Srednik reasons.
Almost every single environmental disaster has been proven to be false or overblown for 60 years now.
Global warming
Early Ice Age
Acid rain
Climate change
The list is limitless and mostly bullshit. They are all commmies trying to take your money and tell you how to live.
This reminds me of a science fair project our oldest daughter did several decades ago. That’s when the “Acid Rain” scare was hot. Her 7th grade science teacher recommended that each of his students do a project for the science fair..
I recommended she measure the PH of local rain water. She collected water directly from rain fall, and also from runoff streams, and water from a nearby lake, all during rain storms. She found that the rain water was slightly acid, while the runoff and lake water were nearly neutral. This was, in my opinion, a significant finding. I had her look up reasons for acid rainfall, and she found that it was likely due to dissolved CO2, not Sulphur pollution in the air, and the neutral lake water was likely due to buffering as the water moved along the soil. This information was included in her charts.
I happened to have an early HP pen plotter and a copy of Harvard Graphics and helped her with charts of the data. One of her friends was there when I was making the plots and asked if I could make some for her, too, which I did.
When the fair ended, my daughter received a “participation trophy”. Her friend who had simply looked up a random article in an encyclopedia, was given a blue ribbon with a comment from the judge that it was because her graphics were so great.
This simply demonstrates that liberal bias was pervasive in the schools even 3+ decades ago.