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Originally Posted by Isaac Zachary
Saying the oceans are becoming more acidic is not a hyberbole, and isn't even untrue. It's a scale like heat, one way is more acidic, and the other is more basic. What scientist says their base became "less basic" or their acid became "less acidic"? An acid that's now less acidic has become more basic, and a base thats now less basic has become more acidic. The scale is logarithmic anyway.
Plus the point at which there start to be problems has nothing to do with the exact center point where acidic and basic meet. Not being basic enough is already bad. The term "too acidic" is 100% correct, not a hyperbole.
Making up speach technicalities that don't exist to minimize or completely ignore a problem on the excuse that you believe you're being precise, when you're not, is also misleading.
True, overhunting is a problem. But that's no proof that it's the only problem. In no way have you demonstrated how many polar bears are being killed by humans compared to their overall decline in population, which ignores the possibility that humankind could be doing something else far more destructive than directly killing these animals one by one.
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1) Ocean pH is now a function of the carbonic acid concentration of the seawater.
2) The ability of seawater to absorb carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, to create the carbonic acid responsible for lowering the pH of the seawater, is a function of seawater temperature, directly associated with global warming.
3) Ocean corral reefs are experiencing their 4th mass bleaching event, which are now, two per decade.
4) It takes from ten, to forty years for a corral reef to recover from a bleaching event.
5) Obviously, there's presently not enough time in between events for the corral to recover.
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6) Corral reefs constitute 0.1% of the total ocean surface area.
7) Corral reefs produce twenty-five percent of all the ocean's food supply.
8) The entire marine food chain begins with sea-ice algae.
9) As the oceans become 'blue-ocean', with zero sea ice, we face marine food extinction as a function of global warming.
10) As goes the polar bear, so goes everything in the sea, including Santa Claus, Mrs. Claus, all of Santa's helpers, and the Reindeer, who are presently starving because of climate change.
11) Putin's GAZPROM arctic oil and gas fields, which the reindeer must navigate each year, must now be mechanically refrigerated year-round, in order to protect them from falling through the surrounding permafrost into sinkholes ( look for Hallmark's new line of Russian holiday greeting cards from the Arctic Circle ! )
