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Forum: Flotsam & Sailing Miscellany 22-08-2019, 16:14
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Posted By GordMay
Re: Ocean acidifcation .

Indeed.
But:
Among the top 10 absolute emitters, only two countries have per capita emissions that are below the world average. Canada, the United States, and Russia all emit more than double...
Forum: Flotsam & Sailing Miscellany 22-08-2019, 13:43
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Posted By GordMay
Re: Ocean acidifcation .

My name’s Gord, not Bill, so I don’t want to get into parsing the meaning of is ‘some’; but I will throw you a bone*.

Scientists agree that today’s warming is primarily caused by humans putting...
Forum: Flotsam & Sailing Miscellany 22-08-2019, 12:29
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Posted By GordMay
Re: Ocean acidifcation .

You're missing THIS:
During their lifetimes, plants generally give off (at night) about half of the carbon dioxide (CO2), that they absorb (daylight photosynthesis) from the atmosphere, although...
Forum: Flotsam & Sailing Miscellany 22-08-2019, 11:56
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Posted By GordMay
Re: Ocean acidifcation .

The carbon dioxide, we exhale, does not contribute to global warming, for the simple reason that we also take up an equivalent amount of carbon dioxide from the air - every atom of carbon in the...
Forum: Flotsam & Sailing Miscellany 22-08-2019, 11:06
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Posted By GordMay
Re: Ocean acidifcation .

From the Abstract:
"Surface winds have declined in China, the Netherlands, the Czech Republic, the United States and Australia over the past few decades1...
Forum: Flotsam & Sailing Miscellany 22-08-2019, 11:02
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Posted By GordMay
Re: Ocean acidifcation .

Except, none of your "actual climate pronouncements' cartoon, actually represent historical reality. Repetition won't make it so.
Forum: Flotsam & Sailing Miscellany 22-08-2019, 01:49
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Posted By GordMay
Re: Ocean acidifcation .

Indeed.
ie:

Agriculture and food
According to UN Environment’s Emissions Gap Report 2018, food systems from production to consumption have the potential to mitigate up to 6.7 gigatons of CO2...
Forum: Flotsam & Sailing Miscellany 21-08-2019, 13:01
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Posted By GordMay
Re: Ocean acidifcation .

Climate change merchants of doubt are unlikely to give up peddling spurious uncertainty messages any day soon, because it seems to often work.
Newhaul, and others, will also continue to question...
Forum: Flotsam & Sailing Miscellany 21-08-2019, 11:43
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Posted By GordMay
Re: Ocean acidifcation .

The existence of anthropogenic climate change (ACC) remains somewhat of a public controversy, despite the consensus among climate scientists. The scientific consensus on AGW is robust, with a range...
Forum: Flotsam & Sailing Miscellany 21-08-2019, 06:39
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Posted By GordMay
Re: Ocean acidifcation .

Often it is challenging to determine exactly what the authors of a paper do think about global climate change. This is a consequence of experts writing for experts: many elements are implicit.
If a...
Forum: Flotsam & Sailing Miscellany 21-08-2019, 04:44
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Posted By GordMay
Re: Ocean acidifcation .

“Climate Consensus and ‘Misinformation’: A Rejoinder to Agnotology, Scientific Consensus, and the Teaching and Learning of Climate Change” ~ by David R. Legates, Willie Soon, William M. Briggs,...
Forum: Flotsam & Sailing Miscellany 20-08-2019, 12:25
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Posted By GordMay
Forum: Flotsam & Sailing Miscellany 20-08-2019, 11:32
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Posted By GordMay
Re: Ocean acidifcation .

"The IPCC: Who Are They and Why Do Their Climate Reports Matter? ~ Union of Concerned SAcientists
➥ https://www.ucsusa.org/global-warming/science-and-impacts/science/ipcc-backgrounder.html
...
Forum: Flotsam & Sailing Miscellany 19-08-2019, 10:52
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Posted By GordMay
Re: Ocean acidifcation .

Let’s see if we can agree on some basic facts:
Does the combustion of fossil fuels release CO2?
If so, where does that CO2 go?
Did the combustion of fossil fuels increase dramatically,...
Forum: Flotsam & Sailing Miscellany 19-08-2019, 10:36
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Posted By GordMay
Re: Ocean acidifcation .

What should it (the correlating data sets) say to someone who didn't make up their minds long ago, and still do have an interest in objectivity?
Forum: Flotsam & Sailing Miscellany 18-08-2019, 17:16
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Posted By GordMay
Re: Ocean acidifcation .

Nuclear fission (hopefully, soon fusion) produces the heat, that makes the STEAM, that drives the turbines, that generates the electricity.
Steam will be with us a while longer, methinks.
Forum: Flotsam & Sailing Miscellany 18-08-2019, 12:51
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Posted By GordMay
Re: Ocean acidifcation .

Here’s a different analogy:
Potassium has several important functions in the body. It is essential for the normal functioning of the muscles, heart, and nerves.
The normal potassium level in...
Forum: Flotsam & Sailing Miscellany 18-08-2019, 06:28
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Posted By GordMay
Re: Ocean acidifcation .

The 11,000-year temperature reconstruction shows global average temperature increasing after the end of the last ice age, and leveling off about 7550 and 3550 BC.
After that time, global...
Forum: Flotsam & Sailing Miscellany 18-08-2019, 06:22
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Posted By GordMay
Re: Ocean acidifcation .

“If Global Warming Is Real, How Do You Explain Ice Cream?” ~ Op-Ed by Sean Hannity
"Listen up, all you liberal snowflakes and leftist charlatans: You can argue all day long about global warming...
Forum: Flotsam & Sailing Miscellany 18-08-2019, 04:17
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Posted By GordMay
Re: Ocean acidifcation .

The best climate, for humanity, is one that is not rapidly careening toward tipping points in the climate system, but is more or less steady and reliable. Most human and natural systems have evolved...
Forum: Flotsam & Sailing Miscellany 18-08-2019, 03:47
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Posted By GordMay
Re: Ocean acidifcation .

Ah yes, education - the bane of the ideologue. ;)
Forum: Flotsam & Sailing Miscellany 16-08-2019, 01:53
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Posted By GordMay
Re: Ocean acidifcation .

Good question.

According to a recent study led by Chinese researchers. Results showed that approximately 30 percent, 50 percent and 80 percent of the stations in North America, Europe, and Asia...
Forum: Flotsam & Sailing Miscellany 15-08-2019, 16:48
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Posted By GordMay
Re: Ocean acidifcation .

Perhaps, in the interests of a balanced & equal opportunity to defend a viewpoint, Reefmagnet (or anyone) would offer an example of a controlled lab experiment that refutes indisputably the...
Forum: Flotsam & Sailing Miscellany 15-08-2019, 16:20
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Posted By GordMay
Re: Ocean acidifcation .

Perhaps we should, now, debate what the meaning of the word 'is' is. ;)
Forum: Flotsam & Sailing Miscellany 15-08-2019, 16:09
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Posted By GordMay
Re: Ocean acidifcation .

Unfortunately, our planet is, and has been, undergoing exactly that experiment; and the results (we are seeing that increasing levels of greenhouse gases correlate with rising temperatures) are...
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