Seattle PI: Research in Pacific shows ocean trouble: Acidity rises

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http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/265052_acid31.html?dpfrom=thead

By LISA STIFFLER
P-I REPORTER

Research fresh off a boat that docked Thursday in Alaska reveals some frightening changes taking place in the Pacific Ocean.

... The Pacific is getting warmer and more acidic, while the amount of oxygen and the building blocks for coral and some kinds of plankton are decreasing, according to initial results from scientists with National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory, the University of Washington and elsewhere.

... "You don't have to believe in climate change to believe that this is happening," said Joanie Kleypas, an oceanographer with the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research, a non-profit organization based in Boulder, Colo. "It's pretty much simple thermodynamics."

And it's alarming.

"Acidification is more frightening than a lot of the climate change issues," Kleypas said. That's in part because the process is hard to alter.

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[NVMojo]

1. all coast lines are suffering and still ...the Bush administration

looks the other way ...

[DELUSIONAL]

2. It doesn't matter -- Jesus is coming again soon

to save his chosen few. . . . <sarcasm alert>

I remember the first Earth Day -- and the displays and info booths at the Student Union at San Jose State University. Much of this was predicted -- also the huge population increase would put a strain on the ability to feed the population plus the problems of not enough clean drinking water.