[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Follow the reasoning closely.....

new Tactic perhaps....Ocean Acidification is now happening because of the evil gas.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

From the comments to the article at WUWT:

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135 Responses to Sea cucumbers: Dissolving coral reefs?

1. pat says:

   December 26, 2011 at 10:05 am

   I am not sure about the point of this article. Sea cucumbers and many star fish feed off reefs and if invasive, often pose a danger until a predator adapts them to diet. This has been known for 70 years. And the so called acidification of the oceans, really reduced alkalinity, is primarily modelling as we have no accurate pre industrialization information.As far as the current status, oceanic calcium carbonate is quite stable.
   The danger to reefs continues to be fertilizer, shore structures, dynamite, over-fishing and poor fishing practices, anchorages, and siltation. AGW does not even approach a level of concern when compared to any one of these elements.

[avacado]

"new Tactic perhaps....Ocean Acidification is now happening because of the evil gas. "

Yep, Ocean Acidification is the new scare. Yet none of the reports go into much detail about the fact that the ocean is a huge pH buffer of carbonates and bicarbonates which will keep the oceans from acidification. The oceans are alkaline at about pH 8. They are not turning acidic. But the words "acidic" and "acidification" sure do sound scary which the greenies like.

[jagusafr]

I got confused for a minute and thought somebody’d gotten a photo of Lorena Bobbit’s keepsake box...

[BitWielder1]

The second C in CaCO3 is Carbon, which comes from plants absorbing CO2.
This is yet again a given solution, more CO2 regulation, looking for a problem to justify it.
That's liberal science for you.

[Eldon Tyrell]

You will see more and more of these - they launched spending for this assault about 5 years ago - when it was obvious their other hoax was up.

Just the usual mechanism - government funding research to have scary results to give a reason for more control.

Same people same culture same players same plan.

[justa-hairyape]

This article actually illustrates why lowering pH on a reef will not be a problem. As the seawater becomes less alkaline or more acidic, the loose sediments, (what the sea cucumbers dissolve), will dissolve and raise the pH or make the seawater more alkaline. Its a complex balanced relationship that actually requires CO2 or acidic dissolution. And there is simply not enough CO2 in the atmosphere to break the equilibrium. There will always be enough sediments to dissolve due to the trace levels of CO2 in the atmosphere.