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The Environment / Re: The limit of climate change?
« on: 02/04/2022 03:59:44 »
if you google 'how much oxygen does the ocean produce?' it says 50 to 85% of the worlds oxygen has been produced by plankton in the ocean, not the trees, plants or bacteria
plankton population is 40% of what it was in 1955 and is dying and continuing to die because of temperature, pollution and pH changes.
when the calcium carbonate buffer saturates at 493 +/-5 ppm in 2051 or sooner, the pH will suddenly decrease by .5 pH units and may kill off the rest of the plankton and kill the base of the food chain in the ocean!
I believe their estimates of the pH at 2051 are wrong. they are saying it will be 7.8 at 2100 and i think it is more like 7.3 then due to the saturation of the calcium carbonate buffer at 2051, and we must make sure we do not reach this point.
check out videos....
youtube.com
introduction to ocean chemistry part 1 by andrew G. Dickson
and introduction to ocean chemistry
and
ocean acidity, why should we care!
plankton population is 40% of what it was in 1955 and is dying and continuing to die because of temperature, pollution and pH changes.
when the calcium carbonate buffer saturates at 493 +/-5 ppm in 2051 or sooner, the pH will suddenly decrease by .5 pH units and may kill off the rest of the plankton and kill the base of the food chain in the ocean!
I believe their estimates of the pH at 2051 are wrong. they are saying it will be 7.8 at 2100 and i think it is more like 7.3 then due to the saturation of the calcium carbonate buffer at 2051, and we must make sure we do not reach this point.
check out videos....
youtube.com
introduction to ocean chemistry part 1 by andrew G. Dickson
and introduction to ocean chemistry
and
ocean acidity, why should we care!