New SPPI paper on Ocean Acidification

Since the CO2 causes catastrophic global warming schtick hasn't worked out, many alarmists have now turned their focus onto another imaginary problem: CO2 causing "acidification" of the oceans. A new SPPI paper by Lord Monckton exposes the fallacy.

Key points:

• Doubling of atmospheric levels would only increase dissolved CO2 in the oceans by .48%


• There is no reliable evidence that ocean pH is falling


• Increased CO2 dissolution in the oceans increases calcification of shellfish and coral


• Corals evolved at a time when CO2 levels were 15 times higher than the present


• Laboratory experiments on sealife in which hydrochloric acid is added to the water (not CO2) and without the natural buffers present in the ocean is meaningless to determine effects of increased CO2 levels on sealife.

Other recommended resources on "Ocean Acidification":





Global Warming Science

Ocean Acidification: How bad can it get?

Acid Test

SeaFriends

Ocean Acidification: Another Failing Scare Story

Acid in the oceans fraud

Ocean acidification: a non-problem

Dying Shellfish Larvae: Story of a Scam

Corals & the Great Barrier Reef

Monterey Bay pH 1995-2004

South China Sea pH

Ocean Acidification: the evil twin of global warming?

'Ocean Acidification' is the new climate scare

Testimony of Dr. John Everett

Speculations beyond the pale of reality

CO2 & pH

Effects of Ocean Acidification on Marine Ecosystems

Mars has warmed 4 times more than Earth over last 20 years

According to the SETI Institute, "in early April of this year, a young Carl Sagan Center Principal Investigator named Lori Fenton, together with her colleagues at NASA Ames Research Center and the USGS in Flagstaff Arizona, published an article in the journal Nature revealing the phenomenon of the rise in the Martian global temperature over the past 20 years. The rise, less than 2° for both surface and air temperature, is still significant from a geologic perspective."..."Such a change is very intriguing and has never before been seen on any planet."





Since satellite data indicates the earth has warmed less than 0.4°C over the same time frame, Mars is warming four times faster than Earth. 





Could it be the sun?

Mars Lander - only known anthropogenic vehicle on Mars

Was Nashville's flood caused by global warming?

Apparently, head of the National Center for Atmospheric Research Kevin Trenberth thinks so. However, according to the US Climate Extremes Index for precipitation, there has been no trend in US precipitation over the past 100 years:

Above graph from the US Climate Extremes Index shows the sum of the percentage of the United States with a much greater than normal number of days with precipitation plus the percentage with a much greater than normal number of days without precipitation. Five year mean is shown in green.

Climate scientists frequently like to have it both ways, claiming that anthropogenic global warming causes both increased precipitation and increased droughts.

Did anthropogenic global warming also cause the highest recorded flood in Nashville in 1926 & 1927 according to the US Army Corps of Engineers? And severe Nashville flooding in 1937, 1975, and 1977?





UPDATE: Floods 10X More Likely During Global Cooling Periods Vs. Global Warming Periods, EU Scientists Discover



UPDATE 2: The flood peak on the Cumberland River in downtown Nashville ranks as only the tenth highest in more than 200 years of record at that site.