In a previous email I had cited an article by Mark Bittman concerning ocean acidification. Crispin responded to me off-list and said:
*That was the most outrageous set of nonsense on oceans and CO2 I have seem. What rubbish. * * The oceans are not acidic.* *CO2 absorbed by water turns about 1% into carbonic acid, a fragile composition with a short lifespan.* *If the oceans were to absorb many many gigatons of CO2 it would become slightly less alkaline.* *It seems that Bittman does not even know the most basic facts about oceans and just attributes everything he sees to ‘AGW’. His writings are not helping the reputation of science. His view are not informing the discussion. His conclusions are worthy of ridicule.* *Fish and mollusk populations rise and fall with the food supply. When the PDO changed in 1976 there were also large population shifts. It has shifted again. The shift is 100% natural and has nothing to do with human fuel use.* I replied to his email as follows: *Please do not label everything that you disagree with as rubbish, nonsense, or as worthy of ridicule. It is hard to conduct a debate when you use such language. I would like to draw your attention to the following: * *http://www.sightline.org/research/northwest-ocean-acidification/ http://www.sightline.org/wp-content/uploads/downloads/2012/02/OA-primer1.pdf * *http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ocean_acidification * *http://www.pmel.noaa.gov/co2/story/Ocean+Acidification * *http://www.pmel.noaa.gov/co2/story/What+is+Ocean+Acidification%3F * *I would like to ask the members of this stove list: why do we go about designing stoves? Are we only concerned about poor people in developing countries who sit around dirty campfires? Or do we want to design stoves that at the same time address important issues such as climate change, global warming and ocean acidification? * Thanks. Paul --- Paul A. Olivier PhD 26/5 Phu Dong Thien Vuong Dalat Vietnam Louisiana telephone: 1-337-447-4124 (rings Vietnam) Mobile: 090-694-1573 (in Vietnam) Skype address: Xpolivier http://www.esrla.com/
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