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To: cogitator

Locally man made ocean acidification is possible but if you consider the amount of ocean water (about 3.612 x 10²º gallons of sea water in the ocean)then I am no scientist but I strongly suspect the amount of man made carbon dioxide needed to change the ocean is way above what is currently being produced.

There should be a chemist on Free Republic who can do the calculations.


29 posted on 12/14/2007 10:05:05 AM PST by Swiss
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To: Swiss
I strongly suspect the amount of man made carbon dioxide needed to change the ocean is way above what is currently being produced.

The important change is to the pH of the surface ocean waters (down to about 200 meters or so); this is a lot less volume than that of the entire ocean.

You could peruse this:

Impacts of Ocean Acidification on Coral Reefs and Other Marine Calcifiers

48 posted on 12/14/2007 12:09:52 PM PST by cogitator
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