[ale] Way OT: In case you missed this in the news... Climategate

[Jeff Hubbs]

Recall that pH is a logarithm of a ratio...

On 5/10/10 6:05 AM, Paul Cartwright wrote:
> On Sun May 9 2010, Jim Kinney wrote:
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>> I'm not positive on the total impacts but I pretty sure that a shift of 0.1
>> in pH will be a huge change in what lives and what dies in the oceans. It's
>> that level of change that allows the red algae blooms that  spell death to
>> hundreds of square miles of oceans at a time. That's a localized event.
>> Imagine the fishing that will be available if the only place left that has
>> a pH in the range to not allow red algae blooms is the arctic ice melt
>> current.
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> not to pick nits here, but a 0.1 shift in ph?
> I could find no reference to ph in any red tide listing, but I did find a
> reference to massive ph level changes that killed fish here:
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> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freshwater_environmental_quality_parameters
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> Atmospheric inputs
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>    In parts of Scandinavia and West Wales and Scotland many rivers became so
> acidic from oxides of sulphur that most fish life was destroyed and pHs as
> low as pH4 were recorded during critical weather conditions.[2]
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