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originally posted by: Grimpachi
a reply to: Vector99
Don't bother. I feel kind of bad for you now because you really don't know these things so here is a bone.
Read this it will explain list all he differing reasons for varying sea level rise.
The Secret of Sea Level Rise: It Will Vary Greatly by Region
originally posted by: raymundoko
8.3 to 8.2 is not acidification. To think it is shows a complete lack in understanding of chemistry. The proper term is neutralizing. The term acidification in reference to the ocean was coined out of propaganda to incite fear. The ocean would only be acidifying if the PH level was at 7 and trending down.
originally posted by: ParasuvO
originally posted by: Grimpachi
a reply to: Agartha
Don't you love it when people try to use climate from over a 145 million years ago and when the continents were still forming to compare to today's warming?
I love hearing people tell us that they know when and where extinction level events occurred, and how many millions and billions of years it all takes..........
WITH NEVER ONE SHRED OF PROOF.
And they believe it just as much if not MORE than the most bought in religious follower ever.
originally posted by: Agartha
This is an example of debating semantics: the oceans are getting less alkaline. In this case 'acidification' describes the increase in the level of acidity in the oceans.
originally posted by: ParasuvO
originally posted by: Grimpachi
a reply to: Vector99
Don't bother. I feel kind of bad for you now because you really don't know these things so here is a bone.
Read this it will explain list all he differing reasons for varying sea level rise.
The Secret of Sea Level Rise: It Will Vary Greatly by Region
I especially like the "polar ice caps" will pull all the water near them closer....
originally posted by: jrod
a reply to: tanka418
What is clear is you do not understand basic chemistry and have resorted to arguing semantics.
The PH scale goes from 0 to 14, now lets look at that like a number line with 0 being on the left and 14 on the right.
When the PH figure shifts to the left on said number line, a solution is said to become more acidic or less basic(those terms are interchangeable).
8.3 is to the left of 8.4 on said number line....
Acid
1.containing acid or having the properties of an acid; in particular, having a pH of less than 7
Alkali (base)
1.having the properties of an alkali, or containing alkali; having a pH greater than 7.
originally posted by: tanka418
In reality to describe this as "acidification" is not only wrong, but very dishonest.
The movement in ph from 8.4 to 8.3 does not represent "acidification" as there is no increase in the acidity, but rather a reduction in the alkalinity...a subtle, but, important distinction. Only after the ph becomes less than 7.0 can this be described as acid.
To attempt to represent this as an increase of acidity is dishonest to the point of fraud!
originally posted by: Agartha
~sigh~
Re-read my post and the link I provided although Jrod has explained it clearly too. I won't repeat my words, they were very simple to understand... but let me try to help you by adding this:
The PH scale is a logarythm which means that PH7 is ten times more acidic than PH8 and when we talk about living organisms even a change of 0.1 can kill them. Look at us: our blood PH has to be between 7.45 and 7.35, the smallest change can cause seizures and deaths. The ocean is not acidic as on being on PH7: the ocean is becoming MORE acidic hence experts use the term 'acidification'. CO2 is adding acid to the oceans, hence they use that term. If you don't understand I don't think I can explain it in any other way. Or go and sue them for fraud, the link is below.
Read the Monaco document that was signed by 320 experts from all over the world
originally posted by: Agartha
This is an example of debating semantics: the oceans are getting less alkaline. In this case 'acidification' describes the increase in the level of acidity in the oceans. The 200+ scientists that signed the document I linked have no problem calling it so because it is what's happening: when CO2 is added to seawater it reacts with the water to form carbonic acid. This means that acid is being added hence the term acidification.
originally posted by: tanka418
If either you or jrod had more than high school chemistry you would have recognized the deception rather quickly.
I only took a couple of years of college Chemistry...
originally posted by: tanka418
Some thing I didn't see your scientists mention; the absorption rate hasn't changed over time. Which is to say; that as long as the atmospheric pressure has been what it currently is, the amount of CO2 absorbed by the Oceans (and all other exposed water)has been constant (hasn't changed). Thus, no additional carbonic acid is produced. And, that factor of oceanic pH remains in original equilibrium. Thus it is a null point.
You also failed to indicate that only a rather small amount of carbonic acid is ever produced by this process.
So this is far from semantic distortion...it is a deliberate falsification of the realities of Oceanic pH.
No...I don't need to read your Monaco document signed by 320 liars.
originally posted by: Agartha
Wrong. The absorption depends on the excess carbon. Oceans absorb aprox 25% of all CO2, the higher the level of CO2, the higher the level the oceans absorb. This is why ocean's PH has been decreasing.
Liars? You believe in the 'science' of Pye and Forester and call hundred of experts liars?
originally posted by: jrod
a reply to: tanka418
Organic chem was my highest level of chemistry... more than chem 101.
I see that you are calling scientists liars now.
Do you really believe that the scientists at NASA and NOAA are lying to us to 'keep the rich and powerful, rich and in power'?
originally posted by: tanka418
Henry's Constant is entirely dependent on temperature and pressure...
As far as I know the atmospheric pressure is remaining relatively constant; thus the absorption rate of CO2 into water remains unchanged...
the climate science types are being dishonest and attempting to establish a fabrication as fact and science...fortunately real science doesn't work that way. Unfortunately there are people like you who only look at the politics, and refuse to test the science.
originally posted by: Agartha
Wrong!
Henry's constant: "the concentration of a dissolved gas in a solution is directly proportional to the partial pressure of that gas above the solution".
The partial pressure of carbon dioxide is the gas phase pressure (i.e. in the air above a waterway) of carbon dioxide which would be in equilibrium with the dissolved carbon dioxide =
an increase in the concentration of CO2 in the atmosphere directly leads to an increase in the amounts of CO2 absorbed by the oceans.
Partial pressure is not atmospheric pressure but that particular gas pressure above that particular water.