Copengagen Summit, Climate Scare Story Of The Day – ‘Acidifying oceans’ threaten food supply, UK warns

BBC – Acidification of the oceans is a major threat to marine life and humanity’s food supply, Hilary Benn is to warn as the UN climate summit resumes.The UK environment secretary will say that acidification provides a “powerful incentive” to cut carbon emissions. Ocean chemistry is changing because water absorbs extra CO2 from the air. Read Article

Ed – The oceans will also absorb all the CO2, sulphur dioxide and other gases emitted daily by the hundred’s of active volcanoes under the world’s seas. All of which emit daily far more CO2 than mankind has ever emitted. If atmospheric CO2 levels had such a direct impact then life would never have survived on this planet in the multiple periods in the earth’s history when atmospheric CO2 has been many times more prevelent than its current level of 0.038%.

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