AP Hypes Pseudo-Ocean Acidification Relationship With CO2 and Climate Change :: Climate Change

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December 18, 2009

AP Hypes Pseudo-Ocean Acidification Relationship With CO2 and Climate Change

Topics: Climate Change, Global Warming, Political News and commentaries

Never ones to miss jumping on any scary scenario that serves as a bandwagon for support of the warmists' agenda, the AP has a piece out today trumpeting alarms of the dangers of man-made "ocean acidification" that will endanger the usual targets - sea lions, harbor seals, sea otters and fish. This, of course, flies in the face of the reality that these marine fauna evolved when the atmospheric CO2 concentration was more than 10 times higher than the current level, and ironically, a recent New York Times article was fretting that the ocean is not absorbing enough carbon dioxide to act as a good carbon "sink."

There is no evidence that the oceans were ever acidic during the past 500 million years, even when atmospheric concentration of carbon dioxide was more than 10 times current levels. This implies that besides temperature and partial-pressure, there is a third controlling factor. That factor is the buffering effect of carbonic acid reaction with the basaltic oceanic crustal rocks. This process uses up excess carbon dioxide.

In other words, nothing to see here folks, just another phantom menace. And surely, the warmists and their adoring media will soon come up with another one to grab our heartstrings.

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