CO2 Will Turn Oceans into Acid Pools

[justinsb]

CO2 Will Turn Oceans into Acid Pools

Imagine you are walking down the beach with your son, and at some point he asks you “Daddy, can I go and play with water?”, to which you will reply: ”No son, the water will burn your body”. Ok, that was an exaggeration (after all carbonic acid is not that powerful), but the

The Royal Society in the U.K has issued a report concerning the world's oceans.

"If CO2 from human activities continues to rise, the oceans will become so acidic by 2100 it could threaten marine life in ways we can't anticipate," commented Dr. Ken Caldeira, co-author of the report and a newly appointed staff scientist at the Carnegie Institution's Department of Global Ecology in Stanford, California.

http://news.softpedia.com/news/CO2-Will-Turn-Oceans-into-Acid-Pools-4067.shtml

[jojo54]

1. I say that when this if first suspect this to be happening in our

oceans, we throw in GWB first to test the theory.

edited for spelling

[Beaver Tail]

2. Naw it won't

All the melting ice for the polar regions that will flood the coast lines will make up for the addition CO2 :sarcasm:

[justinsb]

3. Isn't it nice to think that when the flood waters claim coastlines

that it will essentially create a 'dead lake' along the coasts and we won't even be able to get fish from it?

[Theduckno2]

4. Reminds me of an episode in the original Star Trek series.

A charismatic cult leader leads his followers to a supposedly Eden-like planet. The planet was picture perfect, but the life on the planet was highly acidic and no human could survive there. The cult leader dies a painful death, delusionally believing he has delivered his people (sound like someone we know?). :think:

[LiberalEsto]

5. Another argument vs. deep ocean carbon sequestration!

The imbeciles pushing the "Clean Coal" initiative -- an effort to mine and burn more domestic coal as an alternative to diminishing worldwide petroleum reserves -- have a "brilliant solution" to dealing with the CO2 emissions that would be created by increased coal combustion.

They want to liquefy the excess CO2 from coal plants and pump it deep into the ocean, where they hope it will stay put. This is called deep ocean carbon sequestration. Some Norwegian corporation is already doing it on a trial basis in the North Sea near Scotland.

Greenpeace has studied this proposed technology extensively and called it fraught with potential disasters, such as giant bubble-ups of CO2 that could sink ships and destroy marine and surface life while suddenly increasing the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere.

The threat of turning parts of the ocean into carbonic acid is yet another powerful argument against this potentially devastating technology.