Breitbart: Of all the climate “science” scams I’ve helped expose, about the worst has got to beOcean Acidification.
The very name is a lie: no our oceans are not turning acid; still less are our corals and marine life under any threat of dissolving in what the New York Times once hysterically described as “our deadened, carbon-soaked seas”.
Yet still this junk-science scare story refuses to lie down and die because there are so many vested interests determined to prop it up.
Here is the latest egregious example. Published at The Marine Biologist (“the magazine of the marine biological community”) it purports to be a damning refutation of one of my many articles calling out the Ocean Acidification lie.
There was a time when I would have just ignored it: the guy who wrote it – one Phil Williamson – is the embodiment of Upton Sinclair’s dictum that “It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.” MORE
Another one I’ve heard the past few years is “the bees.” Apparently they are all dying. Yup and this time they really mean it, I am told. Going the way of the polar ice caps I reckon. We’re doomed I tell you now vote democrat
Why don’t they just cut to the chase and tell us the oceans are having a sad.
H2O + CO2 + Ca++ = 2H+ + CaCO3
Add more CO2 to stabilize the reefs.
It’s the LAW.
The Equilibrium Law, that is.
During my recent beach one week beach vacation, I swam two hours per day in the surf. I did not interrupt my swim to answer the call of nature even once. The uric acid I left behind I’m sure is decimating coral reefs and prematurely rusting oil tankers and Navy ships alike. Guilty as charged!
Hate to be a chem Nazi but it appears your equation, in a closed system, would just generate more protons, which in an aqueous soln, of course, equals more acid. You might want more calcium, among other things as critters precipitate it out to make shells. Fortunately, and whatever the case, the actual ocean has several fine buffering systems that can take care of any major pH fluctuations quite handily. It handled Krakatau and Pinatubo quite easily and can handle a couple megatons of burnt coal/oil/nat gas/etc just as well.