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Category: Ocean acidification
Claim: Global Warming will cause ocean food chains to collapse
Guest essay by Eric Worrall A new study published by Adelaide University, claims that ocean acidification and global warming will cause a major collapse of ocean food chains. The abstract…
Study: CO2 "acidification" does not harm Coral
Guest essay by Eric Worrall A study, pH homeostasis during coral calcification in a free ocean CO2 enrichment (FOCE) experiment, Heron Island reef flat, Great Barrier Reef led by researcher…
Are the Oceans Becoming More Acidic?
Guest essay by Clyde Spencer “There’s nothing so absurd that if you repeat it often enough, people will believe it.” – William James Introduction Are the oceans becoming “more acidic,”…
Dr. Christopher Cornwall Responds to “Ocean Acidification: Trying to Get the Science Right”
Guest Essay by Kip Hansen When I wrote “Ocean Acidification: Trying to Get the Science Right” , I sent Dr. Christopher Cornwall, lead author of Cornwall & Hurd 2015, a…
Ocean Acidification: Trying to Get the Science Right
Guest Essay by Kip Hansen Preview: In this essay I will discuss the efforts of various scientific bodies and individual scientists to regularize, to bring into line with correct scientific…
Climate change & ocean acidification set to cause global seafood crisis by 2050
Another computer model. Seafood supply altered by climate change From the University of British Columbia: The global supply of seafood is set to change substantially and many people will not…
Claim: NOAA says the Arctic Ocean is becoming "corrosive"
From NOAA’s department of acidic wordsmithing: New study shows Arctic Ocean rapidly becoming more corrosive to marine species Chukchi and Beaufort Seas could become less hospitable to shelled animals by…
Astonishing finding: coral reef thriving amid 'ocean acidification'
Diverse coral communities persist, but bioerosion escalates in Palau’s low-pH waters From Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute : As the ocean absorbs atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) released by the burning of…
Ocean pH Accuracy Arguments Challenged with 80 Years of Instrumental Data
Testimony before Congress was based on model hindcast, actual data ignored Guest essay by Michael Wallace, Hydrologist Members of the global science and lay communities have begun to learn of…
Ocean Acidification: Natural Cycles and Ubiquitous Uncertainties
Guest essay by Jim Steele, Director emeritus Sierra Nevada Field Campus, San Francisco State University and author of Landscapes & Cycles: An Environmentalist’s Journey to Climate Skepticism In 2002, Scripps’…
Science -vs- PR hype doesn't hold up: Satellite images reveal ocean acidification from space
I’m a bit skeptical of this claim, “Satellite images reveal ocean acidification from space” but it may be mostly due to how the press release is written, for example, nowhere…
A Neutral View of Oceanic pH
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach Following up on my previous investigations into the oceanic pH dataset, I’ve taken a deeper look at what the 2.5 million pH data points from…
pH Sampling Density
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach A recent post by Anthony Watts highlighted a curious fact. This is that records of some two and a half million oceanic pH samples existed, but…
Sabine's excuse for using modeled data over real data? – 'earlier data is not of "sufficient quality."'
WUWT reader Peter Gadiel writes: After reading of the critique of Sabine’s exclusion of the historical data on ocean acidification I emailed him. I thought his response might be of…
Touchy Feely Science – one chart suggests there's a 'pHraud' in omitting Ocean Acidification data in Congressional testimony
“…startling data omission that he told me: “eclipses even the so-called climategate event.”” Willis Eschenbach tips me to a story by Marita Noon, titled: What if Obama’s climate change policies are based…
Claim: New Global Maps Detail Human-Caused Ocean Acidification
In northern winter, the Bering Sea, dividing Alaska and Siberia, becomes the most acidic region on earth (in purple) as shown in this February 2005 acidity map in pH scale.…
But what about the oceans? Research shows declining levels of acidity in Sierra Nevada lakes
From the University of California – Riverside, something that makes me wonder: if the oceans are supposedly becoming more acidified due to CO2 in the atmosphere, why aren’t lakes in…
EPA: Ignore our previous statements on Ocean Acidification
Hoisted with their own petard fighting a lawsuit Story submitted by Eric Worrall The EPA is fighting a desperate battle to sink a green lawsuit, a lawsuit which is substantially…
Claim: Modern Ocean Acidification Is Outpacing Ancient Upheaval, Study Suggests
Rate May Be Ten Times Faster, According to New Data From Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory: Some 56 million years ago, a massive pulse of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere sent global…
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