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according to a show i watched on the weather channel, global warming will affect different areas differently. some areas will get hotter and suffer drought like in the west. others will get more rainfall. unfortunitly for us in the northeast we will get more severe winters because the more energy produced by a warmer planet will cause more of the cold air over the poles to be pushed south by a warmer more unstable jet stream. so as we will start to get warmer, wetter summers we will continue to get bad winters, which could swing from -30 to 30 in days, wreaking havoc w/ our past relatively stable climate. a warmer planet means more energy to fuel extreme weather.( hurricanes, tornados, heavy rains and heavy snow). of course they could be wrong.
I will be pushing up daisy's when the sh it hits the fan
The Gulf of Maine has gone from pH 8.2 to 8.1 based on atmospheric CO2 concentration rise. The global Ocean has dropped from pH 8.0 to 7.9 for the same reason. Historically known pH range for the ocean is 7.4 to 8.4.So any ocean acidification problem occurring inshore in Maine is NOT due to anthropogenic inputs. Because there is not any acidity in GOM water, the Gulf of Maine has a surplus of OH ions (not H ions) and is still very basic (alkaline) and within normal ocean pH levels.I told you on another site, that your specific acidity problem was most likely due to location and substrate and has nothing at all to do with anthropogenic CO2 increases.Rather it is probably caused by runoff, with high concentration of fertilizers, or some other pollutants......increa sed rainfall would of course increase runoff.Aloha
I told you on another site, that your specific acidity problem was most likely due to location and substrate and has nothing at all to do with anthropogenic CO2 increases.Rather it is probably caused by runoff, with high concentration of fertilizers, or some other pollutants......increa sed rainfall would of course increase runoff.Aloha
Right now today Ocean Acidification which is based upon dissolved CO2 is BS political crapola..the ocean is NOT ACIDIC it is a buffered system which is alkaline....local acidity levels however are not BS and they are based upon other factors.
So Ocean Acidification is just more Al Gore mumbo jumbo......BUt you can believe what you want....
I always laugh when people talk about global warming, meanwhile we are sitting under 6 feet of snow and waking up to below 0 temperatures every morning.