It's not global warming. It might be worse.

[knifegill]

Apparently, the upwelling currents from the deep sea are being acidified. Nature obviously played a big part, but I doubt we will be shrugging this off for long.

Seawater typically is slightly alkaline, but when oceans absorb carbon dioxide from the atmosphere — as they have by the hundreds of billions of tons since the Industrial Revolution — they become more corrosive.
Climate modelers predicted greenhouse gases would make marine waters more acidic by century's end. They expected to notice it first in deep water, some of which hasn't circulated to the surface in 1,500 years and has therefore accumulated more atmospheric carbon dioxide. And deep waters already run higher in carbon dioxide because dying plants, animals and fish sink and decay.
But two years ago, oceanographers Richard Feely and Chris Sabine, both with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory in Seattle, found more acidified waters already reaching the surface.

That's one of the scariest things I've read in a long time. Full article here.
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2009336458_oysters14m.html

 

[studd muffin]

We need to save the earth!

 

[Warborg]

We are all going to die!!! unless we all switch to electric cars. Wait a minute...they have batteries which contain acid How does this work?


Seriously this doesn't sound good... could be a major shift in Earth's patterns.

 

[MinnowMagnet]

were screwed

 

[pwmin]

It's pretty much too late to make a big difference weather or not you believe this or global warming or whatever. Something is going to happen due to our presence and what we've done. Not saying we shouldn't try and make a difference, but I don't think anything we can do is going to help significantly enough. There's no way we're going to voluntarily wipe out more than half the population and start living off the land as we did hundreds of years ago again.

 

[knifegill]

It's not voluntary, but it is happening. You think obesity is an accident?

 

[navygirl76]

obesity an accident? naw, its caused by genetics, lack of exercise and our poor american diet.

the earth isnt going to be around forever-it changes, evolves, species die off, temperatures rise and fall-ice ages come and go... im not really too worried, whats going to be the demise of Earth is the sun burning out. guess i dont buy into the whole doomsday fears lol.

maybe somethings wrong with me-haha. or maybe nursing school is killing my very soul lol

 

[dmopar74]

obesity an accident? naw, its caused by genetics, lack of exercise and our poor american diet.

the earth isnt going to be around forever-it changes, evolves, species die off, temperatures rise and fall-ice ages come and go... im not really too worried, whats going to be the demise of Earth is the sun burning out. guess i dont buy into the whole doomsday fears lol.

maybe somethings wrong with me-haha. or maybe nursing school is killing my very soul lol

X2

 

[2004exrider]

the earth isnt going to be around forever-it changes, evolves, species die off, temperatures rise and fall-ice ages come and go... im not really too worried, whats going to be the demise of Earth is the sun burning out. guess i dont buy into the whole doomsday fears lol.

THANK YOU!!! Shows im not the only one who feels the same.

Jimmy

 

[jmart.cooper]

the way i see it, the earth will live on, but humans might not. i dont think it matters what you believe about global warming, no matter what, we should take better care of the earth, pollute less and try to be more sustainable. We are screwing ourselves over by treating the earth so poorly.