Thanks for the link. ACS does pretty good work (my dad was the head of the Georgia chapter for a number of years).<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 11:24 AM, Greg Freemyer <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:greg.freemyer@gmail.com">greg.freemyer@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Jim,<br>
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I found this interesting article.<br>
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<a href="http://pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.1021/es902148f?cookieSet=1" target="_blank">http://pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.1021/es902148f?cookieSet=1</a><br>
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It about a spot in the pacific with a near surface natural underwater<br>
CO2 plume. PH is around 6 at the plume and drops off with distance.<br>
<br>
Apparently they are just getting into the study of the area, but it<br>
sounds like a great natural lab. I didn't see anything real specific.<br>
Especially along the lines of "No coral is living in waters with ph<br>
of 7.5", etc.<br>
<br>
Note: The worst case ph prediction I've read is it will drop another<br>
.5 to 7.6. But then it starts to rebound because we've burned all the<br>
fossil fuels in the world to make that happen and nothing is left to<br>
continue to push CO2 into the atmosphere / ocean. The optimists say<br>
.5 is impossible because all the limestone in the ocean will buffer<br>
the CO2 and keep it from changing that much.<br>
<br>
Note:<br>
Really bizarre is they also mention that 60 miles from that site is<br>
another site where the PH is 1!!!<br>
<br>
Nothing is living there! I find it really amazing that PH of 1 can<br>
exist in a natural environment!<br></blockquote><div><br>Nature is divers. It's humans that are not!<br> <br></div><a href="http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn18759-first-footage-from-worlds-deepest-volcanic-vents.html">http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn18759-first-footage-from-worlds-deepest-volcanic-vents.html</a><br>
<br>stuff lives near these things! It's like living in a smelter furnace.<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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Greg<br>
</font><div><div></div><br></div></blockquote></div><br>-- <br>-- <br>James P. Kinney III<br>Actively in pursuit of Life, Liberty and Happiness <br>Doing pretty well on all 3 pursuits <br><br>