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?
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