Old Rocks
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No one is saying that the pH would go all the way to the acid side, just "more acid".
The term is less alkaline konradv, not more acid. You can't call it acid till the PH reaches a certain point. And less alkaline than what? Less than when most of the life in the sea evolved when atmospheric CO2 was more than 10 times the present levels?
Ocean acidification is just one more hoax that the gullible undeucated gobble up like so much pablum.
Ol' Bent continues to demonstrate what a stupid fuck he is. The problem is and has been the saturation points of aragonite. And it makes a very big differance to the sea life which depends on that balance.
Local News | Acidity in ocean killed NW oysters, new study says | Seattle Times Newspaper
It's the first concrete finding in North America that carbon dioxide being taken up by the oceans already is helping kill marine species.
"This is the smoking gun for oyster larvae," said Richard Feely, an oceanographer and leading marine-chemistry researcher with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration in Seattle and one of the paper's authors.
Said Alan Barton, another of the paper's authors: "It's now an incontrovertible fact that ocean chemistry is affecting our larvae."
In a paper published this week in the journal Limnology and Oceanography, the scientists studied the water that gets pumped from the Pacific Ocean into the Whiskey Creek Hatchery, which supplies baby shellfish for most of the West Coast's $110 million-a-year oyster industry.
Here's why: Since 2005, wild oysters along the Washington coast and at the hatchery had been dying inexplicably in their larval stages. At first the suspect was a bacterial disease, but hatchery workers soon noticed that the die-offs only occurred after high winds drew water from the ocean deep.