Carnegie Researchers Say Geotech Can't Cure Ocean Acidification

CarnegieScience writes "Plans to stop global warming by 'geoengineering' the planet by putting aerosols in the atmosphere to block sunlight are controversial, to say the least. Scientists are now pointing out that even if it keeps the planet cool, it will do almost nothing to stop another major problem — ocean acidification. The ocean will keep on absorbing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere (making carbonic acid) and the water's pH will get too low for corals and other marine life to secrete skeletons. So this is another strike against a quick fix of our climate problems."

Comments

Re:Pffft! Who are you going to believe?

[jnaujok]

Where are my mod points when I need them. Please, someone, mod this up before it gets buried in the flood of Al Gore kool-aid drinkers.

Re:What Climate Problem?

[Golddess]

The Church of Global Warming (renamed to the Church of Climate Change, since we're now cooling since 2001)

I realize it may be a hard thing for some folks to understand, especially the kind that blindly follows a book allegedly written some 6000 years ago (not that I'm claiming you believe it, only that those kinds of people are the kind I am familiar with), but making a claim, and then later revising it when you've found out you may not be correct, is a Good Thing. From the rest of your post, you do still seem to believe that we are fucking up our planet, but I'm just pointing out that the way you started off is more conducive to the people who believe that we can do no wrong, that humanity can waste and waste and the planet will always be here, perfectly habitable for humans. Again, not saying you think that.

Personally, while I believe us to be having an impact on our climate, I do not believe we as of yet know enough about it to know how to combat the change (including, but not limited to, whether we need to do stuff to heat us up or cool us down). I would also like to point one thing out.

Lest we forget that corals were some of the earliest forms of life on the planet. Yet, they survived the time when all that carbon we were burning was still in the atmosphere and the oceans.

All that carbon that we are currently putting back into the atmosphere and oceans? It's never been in the atmosphere and oceans all at once.