Voices Of CO2 Doom Dishonestly Alarm Unthinking Worshippers with Correlations – While Downplaying Proven Causations
12 hours ago Guest Blogger
By Jim Steele
Climate scientists have been funded to find how rising atmospheric CO2 is affecting our climate and global ecosystems. As a result of their predisposed belief in “demon CO2”, simple correlations are misleadingly promoted as causation by both researchers and click-bait media. For example, lowering of ocean surface pH is blamed on a correlation with rising CO2. However, it is well established other factors also lower surface pH.
Climate alarmists use that correlation to scare the public, arguing that any continued burning of fossil fuels will cause pH to fall with catastrophic consequences for marine ecosystems. They simply assume surface pH will continue to fall as growing atmospheric CO2 pumps more CO2 into surface waters. But the data shows that has not always been the case.
Ocean pH drops from ~8.2 at the surface falling to 7.6 by 300-meter depth where respiration and decay of organic matter dominates, releasing CO2 and lowering pH. Observations show wherever that low pH subsurface waters upwell to the surface, surface pH declines. The solid black curve shows surface pH was 8.2 in pre-industrial times but has fallen to 8.1 in modern times (dashed blue curve). However subsurface pH has remained steady throughout. Observed increases in upwelling since the Little Ice Age will have lowered today’s surface pH.
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