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Originally Posted by crockett
Robbie.. Oceans do adsorb CO2, this is known. It's estimated at roughly 30% of the carbon Dioxide produced is absorbed by the Ocean. That sounds great right?
Except if you look at the "Big Picture"
I have a word for you to look up.. Ocean Acidification
Read up on Ocean Acidification and tell me if you think it's a good idea to continue polluting the air with excessive CO2 gasses and assuming the Ocean will clean it all up. |
Big picture you say? Looking at the "big picture" requires looking at things on geologic time scales and not just the past 100 years like the alarmists do.
As for your "ocean acidification" alarm-ism:
The Myth of ?Acidification? of Oceans
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?Acid? is an emotive word to the general public, which is why it is seized upon by the alarmists in their search for yet another scare. In reality increasing CO2 makes the ocean become ?less alkaline?, but never ?acid?.
pH is a measurement of the amount of hydrogen ion concentration in a solution, the log of the hydrogen ion concentration with the sign changed. Because it is a log scale it is very hard to move a pH of 8.2 to 7.0, which is neutral.
The pH needs to be less than 7 to be ?acid?, and this has not happened through at least the past 600 million years because it would dissolve limestones, and limestone have been deposited in the sea and not re-dissolved in the sea through all that time.
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