[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

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But we have the same old villain....CO2

I suspect they will get their needed research Grants....

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

fyi

[Sherman Logan]

Since 7.0 is neutral on the pH scale, going from 8.2 to 8.1 really shouldn’t be called acidification.

If it’s happening, it’s a case of the ocean becoming slightly less alkaline, not more acidic.

Since the pH scale wasn’t invented till the 20th century, I doubt anybody made measurements in the 17th,

[hosepipe]

Room, car and airplane air conditioning has screwed up liberals thinking machines..
They actually think you can adjust the air conditioning on this whole planet..
AND adjust the acidity of the oceans.. like they are a toilet..

[Moonman62]

What happened to the oceans in Earth's past when CO2 levels were much higher?

I know paleoclimatologists call past periods of warming "optimums."

[printhead]

I’d rather see a study of what potential damage arises from excessive use of road salt as it works its way to the oceans.

[Spirochete]

a new CO2-driven ecological disaster scenario to hysterical levels: Ocean acidification.

Gas bubbles trapped in late Cretaceous amber prove that CO2 levels back then were over ten times higher than present.

The Late Cretaceous was a time of teeming coral reefs and extensive limestone deposits, the white cliffs of Dover were formed then.

In fact, 'Cretaceous' takes is name from the Latin for 'chalk'.

[PSYCHO-FREEP]

UMMmmmm, Since when has C02 become an an acid?

[Citizen Tom Paine]

The World’s oceans are a buffered system. When the concentration of dissoled CO2 in all of its forms become high enough CaCO3 is precipicated out of the ocean onto its bottom forming limestone deposits. So the amount of carbon in the ocean is limited. Very roughly speaking if the abount of carbon in the atmosphere is 1, the amounh of dissolved carbon dioxide in the ocean is 50, and the amount of carbon in limestone rocks is 250. So it is hard for the atmosphere to be a driver.