Report: Greenhouse gases imperil oceans' web of life

November 10, 2008 By Renee Schoof

Corals, lobsters, clams and many other ocean creatures - including some at the bottom of the food chain - may be unable to withstand the increasing acidity of the oceans brought on by growing global-warming pollution, according to a report Tuesday from the advocacy group Oceana.

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• mikiwud - Nov 12, 2008
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  FFS! Problems only seem to arise when someone gets paid for saying so. Never caused trouble over millions of years of higher CO2 levels,so why now? Keep these people away from oceans, the bullshit is a pollutant.
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• GrayMouser - Nov 13, 2008
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  CO2 has never threatened the "oceans' web of life" before. Even when it was 10 times higher than it is now.
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• Noein - Nov 14, 2008
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  CO2 has never threatened the "oceans' web of life" before. Even when it was 10 times higher than it is now.

  
  
  Never, huh? Is that what your favorite denialist blog asserts?
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• Velanarris - Nov 15, 2008
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  Noein, if you want to have a debate on it, bring some fact and sources please.
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• MikeB - Nov 16, 2008
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  This is very bad news for Sponge Bob and Patrick...
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• MikeB - Nov 16, 2008
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  On a more serious note however, look at this from an Aussie scientist:
  
  http://jenniferma...-plimer/
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• barakn - Nov 17, 2008
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  I looked, MikeB, and it was a waste of time. The Aussie "scientist" has decided to define acidic as meaning less than a pH of 7. This allows him to pretend that even when the hydrogen ion concentration is increasing the ocean isn't getting more acidic until it passes that magic number 7. This "scientist" has done little more than play a semantic shell game. Most geologists and chemists would agree that an alkaline solution can become more acidic, i.e. slide lower on the pH scale, without necessarily sliding lower than 7.
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• Velanarris - Nov 19, 2008
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  The Aussie "scientist" has decided to define acidic as meaning less than a pH of 7

  
  
  Last I checked a ph lower than 7 was the scientific standard for acidic.
  
  At no point in time does he state that the oceans are NOT becomming more acidic. He states there isn't enough Carbon on the planet to bring us below a ph of 7.
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