Half of the world’s man-made CO2 emissions land in the ocean, where it forms carbonic acid. The oceans’ average acidity has been constant for 300 million years, until the Industrial Revolution. Over the last two centuries, it has increased by 30 percent, dropping the pH level from 8.2 to 8.1. On the 0-to-14 pH scale where anything over 7 is “alkaline” and under 7 is “acidic”. pH measurement is logarithmic so progressions can much bigger than their numbers outwardly suggest. A 0.1 drop in pH indicates a signifiant move toward acidity. If you suffer a 0.1 drop in blood pH, for instance, hold on for a seizure or a coma. Oysters in Alaska and snails off the Pacific Coast are already having trouble developing their shells. Sea urchin in the North Atlantic are producing deformed larvae. It appears that the bottom of the ocean’s food chain is already in danger, and a mass extinction event is projected for 2050. Alex argues that on top of the need to stop emitting carbon, we need to start dumping lime into the ocean (off cargo ships as they go about their business) to start raising the ocean’s pH back to 8.2.
Additional Resources for 2014 TEAC 6:
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Jim Kennedy – Department of Defence Blocked Solution to Rare Earth Crisis TEAC 6
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Jim Kennedy – Dependence on China for Military Hardware TEAC 6
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Kun Chen from Chinese Academy of Sciences on China Thorium Molten Salt Reactor TMSR Program
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Thorium Maglich June 04, 2015 TEAC6
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Bogdan Maglich – Th/U233 breeding Ti above 200 KeV viable, NOT at thermonuclear ion energies TEAC 6
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Stephen Boyd Interview – Heavy Rare Earths TEAC 6
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Roger Blomquist of ANL (Argonne National Lab) on IFR (Integral Fast Reactor) TEAC 6
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John Baunach – Health Physics and the Linear No-Threshold Model TEAC 6
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Gordon McDowell – YouTube Thorium Meme Propagation TEAC 6
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John Baunach Interview – Radiation Effects & LNT TEAC 6
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11 Ralph Moir TEAC6
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Scott Medwid “I used to oppose nuclear” TEAC 6
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10 Bogdan Maglich TEAC6
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Cavan Stone – Magic Bullets TEAC 6
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07 Ganapati Myneni TEAC6
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John Kutsch – Thorium Bank TEAC 6
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Bogdan Maglich – Exyder, the Soft Fusion Energy Path TEAC 6
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John Kutsch – Perceptual Blindness TEAC 6
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Dr. Magdi Ragheb – Alternative Cooling Systems TEAC 6
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National Security, Rare Earth Elements & The Thorium Problem TEAC 6
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Eric Robinson – High Performance Metal Face Seals TEAC 6
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14 Alex Cannara TEAC6
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Ocean Acidification Flyer draft hs-1 May 22, 2014
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Dr. Stephen Boyd & Cavan Stone on Boosting Economic Growth via Low-Cost Energy TEAC 6
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