...Kathleen Nisbet-Moncy, (click here) plant manager for Goose Point Oyster Co. in Willapa Bay, Washington, told ThinkProgress that ocean waters in the bay have become so acidic that the company can’t grow oyster larvae off the coast of Washington anymore. The problems started happening in 2006, she said, when winds that cause upwelling off the West Coast didn’t subside as much as they usually do. Upwelling brings up water that was at the surface of the ocean 50 years ago, water that had spent the last five decades years deep in the ocean, accumulating carbon dioxide from the organic matter that sinks to the seafloor. According to Oregon State University, the water that rose to the surface off the coast of Washington in 2006 contained CO2 levels of 900 to 1,000 parts per million....
The citizens in the northwest USA aren't important? The nation is not to understand the problems they face? But, we can rescue tornado victims and their land, right?
There is no mitigation for these people. What would happen and how much would one need to buffer the Pacific Ocean? It is impossible. There isn't that much buffer on Earth.
May 7, 2014
Sandy Doughton
...A March Gallup Poll (click here) found most Americans are convinced the climate is changing, but only about one in three considers those changes a serious threat to their way of life.
Unlike
many parts of the country, the effects of climate change in the Pacific
Northwest have been well studied for nearly two decades....
Ocean acidification is really boring stuff compared to the sensationalism of hurricanes and tornadoes. Doesn't make good television.
Ocean acidification is really boring stuff compared to the sensationalism of hurricanes and tornadoes. Doesn't make good television.
