Expert Says Oceans are Turning Acidic

The Associated Press reports from Nairobi, Kenya that:

The world's oceans are becoming more acidic, which poses a threat to sea life and Earth's fragile food chain, a climate expert said Thursday.

What would we do without experts? How could anyone, much less an expert, reach the conclusion that the Earth's food chain is fragile? Perhaps experts' definition of fragile is different from mine. I've read that life has existed on Earth for several billion years (but that is most likely the finding of 'experts'). If life has existed for that long I would guess that some form of food chain has been around for that long. But, our current crop of experts believe that they have detected the advent of life threatening trends. Yeah, right. After billions of years life is seriously threatened now and they saw it coming.

Oceans have already absorbed a third of the world's emissions of carbon dioxide, one of the heat-trapping gases blamed for global warming, leading to acidification that prevents vital sea life from forming properly.

Wouldn't that be a good thing if you believe the global warming alarmists? I'm no expert, but I don't think the carbon dioxide absorbed by the oceans will be trapping much heat.

In a study titled "The Future Oceans - Warming Up, Rising High, Turning Sour," (Stefan) Rahmstorf and eight other scientists warned that the world is witnessing, on a global scale, problems similar to the acid rain phenomenon of the 1970s and 1980s.

Did they really mean to say that? After all, the acid rain scare kind of fizzled. When is the last time you heard anything about acid rain?

Rahmstorf, the head of Germany's Potsdam Institute for Research into Climatic Effects, says more research is urgently needed to assess the impact of ocean acidification.

Bingo! Motive uncovered! More research equals more money.

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