Politicians fiddle while the oceans burn
The ocean is sucking up massive amounts of carbon dioxide. Great news, right? Not really, the carbon dioxide is transformed into carbonic acid, turning the ocean corrosive:
In surveys from Vancouver Island in Canada to the tip of Baja California in Mexico, scientists reported finding the first evidence of acidic sea water in large quantities along the continental shelf, the shallow zone where most marine creatures live.
In some areas the water was corrosive enough to dissolve the shells of clams, coral and tiny creatures that are crucial to the food chain.
And sadly, as usual, the science world utters yet another “golly gee” as “…what’s happening in the natural world seems to be happening much faster than what our climate models predict.”
We’re fucked.
Stumble it!
Tags: global warming, greenhouse gases, ocean, seawater acidification
May 25th, 2008 at 10:05 am
Yeah, it is so hard to include “inconvenient truths” in climate models until after they’ve grown up and brought their kids and grandkids over to start biting you
May 29th, 2008 at 1:25 pm
Apparently, the earth is hellbent on righting itself – by removing the little things that sustains life.
The planet will be fine. Us? Not so much.
But hey, who cares, as long as the uber rich continue to get uberer richerer, right?