Re: [Phys-l] Climate change?

[Bernard Cleyet <bernardcleyet@redshift.com>]

Thanks for pointing out the obvious, but not to me or my memory.  As  
a member of the CA Academy of Sciences, I shoulda remembered their  
reports of the very deleterious effect of increased pH on coral*,  
etc.  I wouldn't be surprised if the sequestering would result in  
greater harm than not sequestering on the marine ecology.


*They are growing coral  for propagation and maybe banking (like the  
seed banks).

bc


On 2008, Apr 05, , at 12:27, Hugh Haskell wrote:

> so I think we'd find that deep ocean CO2
> sequestration would have the long-term effect of gradually lowering
> the pH of the ocean to the point where it will become even more
> dangerous to marine life than it has already become.
>
> It may take a while for it to diffuse back to the shallower water,
> but once it becomes a dissolved agent in the water, I think that it
> is inevitable that it will diffuse throughout the oceans.