Well, we can dump iron rust in areas of the seas that have the other food they need, the resulting plankton bloom turns co2 into plankton skelitons, which then sink to the bottom of the ocean. On a small scale this works, in a large scale it is hoped that it would be self sustaining (and thus you would not need to keep dumping large quantities of iron).
yeah i was thinking about that iron/algae thing... i used to be wary of the idea of dropping shiploads of iron into the seas, and am sure we still have to into all the implications, but it's sounding better and better every day..
you know, it's a scary slope. climate modification, geoengineering the oceans, all that, but we've kinda been doing it for some time now, inadvertently, and so perhaps the only way forward is to continue doing it but with a more wholistic perspective? like bruce stirling says; iit's not natural, it will never be natural again, but its doable...
Don't mean to be a nitpicker but 30% higher? The pH scale is a bit counterintuitive because acidic solutions have low pH while alkaline ones have high values (between zero and 14). CO2 dissolves in water to give an acidic solution. So I suspect that you mean that the pH is lower. And given that pH is a logarithmic scale it's not clear what the 30% actually means. There is no doubt, however, that the pH is falling - that has been documented for a number of years - and this has serious consequences for organisms that do carbonate chemistry, like corals, plankton etc since the more acidic the water gets, paradoxically, the more difficult it is to precipitate carbonate.
nitpick away, and thanks! i stand corrected... i was wondering why they kept on saying 30% more acidic and never saying PH in the same breath... i'll haveto correct this this afternooon. Thanks again!
what about the acid rain
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July 9 2010, 01:50:42 UTC
fall over the last 50 Years. You do seriously think it is just the CO2 which has an effect on the ph level of todays oceans. Well boys you might be wrong, it is not all about the CO2 which you do love so much. CO2 has little effect on what the humans are doing today. More likely it is the total energy consumption worldwide and the total output of energy which heats our planet. So, no energy use is the best. Why? Do not heat up anything, do not switch on a light, even an energy efficient one, you are still using energy. And all energy used worldwide turns at the end in to 100% Heat. Whats the solution now? Sure, the urbanisation too. There is none, unless you reduce the pupulation down to 250 Million. Lets get rid of the none academical consumers, is that the solution? May be not right now, but the less humans we do produce, the healthier the planet....and why genetics? to feed the planet...yeah right...to keep people alive which should not be on the planet before that? You are right, this is going to be a hard discussion on one day.
its the opposite of the old high school experiment where one would take some vinegar (acid) and some cacium (baking soda) and it would produce bubbling CO2... here you take the air's CO2 and the Shellfish's calcium and get acid. And it ain't pretty.... What do we do to stop this? Well, it's not the same thing, not even close; water and CO2 mixed up would make carbonic acid which is a weak acid and it doesn't release anything from the Shellfish. carnival cruises
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you know, it's a scary slope. climate modification, geoengineering the oceans, all that, but we've kinda been doing it for some time now, inadvertently, and so perhaps the only way forward is to continue doing it but with a more wholistic perspective? like bruce stirling says; iit's not natural, it will never be natural again, but its doable...
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There is no doubt, however, that the pH is falling - that has been documented for a number of years - and this has serious consequences for organisms that do carbonate chemistry, like corals, plankton etc since the more acidic the water gets, paradoxically, the more difficult it is to precipitate carbonate.
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http://www.hugg.com/story/China-To-Fight-Air-Pollution-With-Magnets-1/
what you think ?
less pollutioned air means less pollution in the oceans
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Well boys you might be wrong, it is not all about the CO2 which you do love so much. CO2 has little effect on what the humans are doing today. More likely it is the total energy consumption worldwide and the total output of energy which heats our planet.
So, no energy use is the best. Why? Do not heat up anything, do not switch on a light, even an energy efficient one, you are still using energy. And all energy used worldwide turns at the end in to 100% Heat. Whats the solution now? Sure, the urbanisation too. There is none, unless you reduce the pupulation down to 250 Million. Lets get rid of the none academical consumers, is that the solution? May be not right now, but the less humans we do produce, the healthier the planet....and why genetics? to feed the planet...yeah right...to keep people alive which should not be on the planet before that? You are right, this is going to be a hard discussion on one day.
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Well, it's not the same thing, not even close; water and CO2 mixed up would make carbonic acid which is a weak acid and it doesn't release anything from the Shellfish.
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