As global temperature remains well below alarmists’ predictions, environmentalists continue to promote devastation from “ocean acidification” as their next rationale for clamping down on CO2 emissions. But as a new article in the ICES Journal of Marine Science makes clear, the actual scientific evidence for such devastation is slim, and the primary reason why so much gets published about it seems to be not scientific but political/sociological. As Ben Webster summarized in The Times (London): “The review found that many studies had used flawed methods, subjecting marine creatures to sudden increases in carbon dioxide that would never be experienced in real life.” Anthony Watts conveys some of the most salient points quickly in a post at WattsUpwithThat.com.

 

 

 

Image “Rainforests of the Sea” courtesy of NOAA at Flickr Creative Commons.