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Well ocean acidification is real and proven. At this point all we're arguing about is how many years we have left.
by Aloisius 13y ago
Well ocean acidification is real and proven. At this point all we're arguing about is how many years we have left.
- noonespecial 13y agoThis is certainly true, but amount matters. If its 300 years then we have a problem, if its 3000, maybe not so much. Articles like this do not help give perspective.
- cwoods 13y agoI guess there will be many who won't care about 300 years as well, since they won't be around.
- venomsnake 13y agoNot at all ... if the acidification is moving some positive feedback loops (and it seems it is) we have much less.
- ars 13y agoThere are almost no positive feedback loops in nature, for the simple reason that they tend to get triggered by random variations and feedback on themself till they reach limit and convert to negative loops.
- Daishiman 13y agoTry Siberian bog swamps releasing an amount of methane with effects equal to the US yearly emissions.
- kbutler 13y ago"The fact that the ice core records do not seem full of methane spikes due to high-latitude sources makes it seem like the real world is not as sensitive as we were able to set the model up to be." http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2012/01/much-ado-about-methane/ http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2012/01/much-a...
- waps 13y agoActually since ocean acidification provides a chemical power source for protozoa, we probably only have a year or two before one of the species adapts and brings it back to it's previous level by harvesting the energy in it. That will allow one of those species to rapidly spread, which is exactly what we want in this case. Trying to fix it using any kind of non-self-replicating technology is, imho, a non-starter.
- ivoflipse 13y agoUnless its a species that ends up doing more harm than good. Like huge swarms of jellyfish.