Friday, March 02, 2012

Oceans Appear to be Acidifying Faster than any time in last 300 Million Years

Image credit NASA
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Friday, March 02, 2012

    I give up… First the world was going to hell by way of Global Warming… No -- that came out to be pretty much all BS… or a great BIG HOAX if I may. Now we got to deal with OCEAN ACIDIFICATION! What tha HELL!
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   - TG Daily brings us this, (here we go again,) report and it starts off like this… The world's oceans appear to be acidifying faster than at any time in the last 300 million years, and sea life may well be unable to adapt… The last time acidification took place anywhere near this fast was during the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum, or PETM… In the last hundred years, rising carbon dioxide from human activities has lowered ocean pH by 0.1 unit, and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) predicts that pH will fall another 0.2 units by 2100, raising the possibility that we may soon see the same sort of ocean changes as those observed during the PETM…
Read the full report at link below…
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Lot of Maybe’s… Mighta, Coulda, Woulda’s in there…
AubreyJ………
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