Comments on: 50% Of The Great Barrier Reef Is Now Dead Or Dying, 93% Is Bleached https://habitablezone.com/2016/04/20/50-of-the-great-barrier-reef-is-now-dead-or-dying-93-is-bleached/ Tue, 07 Apr 2026 19:18:10 -0700 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: ER https://habitablezone.com/2016/04/20/50-of-the-great-barrier-reef-is-now-dead-or-dying-93-is-bleached/#comment-36257 ER Thu, 21 Apr 2016 04:13:26 +0000 https://www.habitablezone.com/?p=57018#comment-36257 Reefer madness? Reefer madness?

]]> By: RL https://habitablezone.com/2016/04/20/50-of-the-great-barrier-reef-is-now-dead-or-dying-93-is-bleached/#comment-36256 RL Thu, 21 Apr 2016 03:47:38 +0000 https://www.habitablezone.com/?p=57018#comment-36256 That sounds pretty socialist to me... they are probably committing suicide just to make conservative dogma look bad... Talk about a 'red' herring! That sounds pretty socialist to me… they are probably committing suicide just to make conservative dogma look bad…

Talk about a ‘red’ herring!

]]> By: ER https://habitablezone.com/2016/04/20/50-of-the-great-barrier-reef-is-now-dead-or-dying-93-is-bleached/#comment-36255 ER Thu, 21 Apr 2016 02:53:55 +0000 https://www.habitablezone.com/?p=57018#comment-36255 There must be a denialist narrative already being devised to challenge these assertions. You know, something like a "government, socialist, or UN conspiracy to raise taxes and take away our freedoms and our way of life". There must be a denialist narrative already being devised to challenge these assertions.

You know, something like a “government, socialist, or UN conspiracy
to raise taxes and take away our freedoms and our way of life”.

]]> By: RL https://habitablezone.com/2016/04/20/50-of-the-great-barrier-reef-is-now-dead-or-dying-93-is-bleached/#comment-36254 RL Thu, 21 Apr 2016 02:16:05 +0000 https://www.habitablezone.com/?p=57018#comment-36254 <a href="http://www.pmel.noaa.gov/co2/story/What+is+Ocean+Acidification%3F" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">This is just the beginning....</a> <blockquote>Since the beginning of the Industrial Revolution, the pH of surface ocean waters has fallen by 0.1 pH units. Since the pH scale, like the Richter scale, is logarithmic, this change represents approximately a 30 percent increase in acidity. Future predictions indicate that the oceans will continue to absorb carbon dioxide and become even more acidic. Estimates of future carbon dioxide levels, based on business as usual emission scenarios, indicate that by the end of this century the surface waters of the ocean could be nearly 150 percent more acidic, resulting in a pH that the oceans haven’t experienced for more than 20 million years.</blockquote> <img src="http://www.pmel.noaa.gov/co2/files/co2timeseries_med.jpg" alt="" /> This is just the beginning….

Since the beginning of the Industrial Revolution, the pH of surface ocean waters has fallen by 0.1 pH units. Since the pH scale, like the Richter scale, is logarithmic, this change represents approximately a 30 percent increase in acidity. Future predictions indicate that the oceans will continue to absorb carbon dioxide and become even more acidic. Estimates of future carbon dioxide levels, based on business as usual emission scenarios, indicate that by the end of this century the surface waters of the ocean could be nearly 150 percent more acidic, resulting in a pH that the oceans haven’t experienced for more than 20 million years.

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