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To: Hawkmoon who wrote (36016)	12/3/2012 5:05:44 PM
From: Wharf Rat	1 Recommendation Read Replies (1) of 86356

"CO2 is plant food." Oh, I am so tired of that crap. skepticalscience.com "why aren't they uptaking this additional CO2?? That's the question I have.. " Cuz we are dumping a lot more fossil carbon into the atmosphere than plants can take up. "But there is NO DOUBT that a 40% depletion of the Marine Food Chain " yeah; about that, Researchers at Canada's Dalhousie University say the global population of phytoplankton has fallen about 40 percent since 1950. That translates to an annual drop of about 1 percent of the average plankton population between 1899 and 2008. The scientists believe that rising sea surface temperatures are to blame. scientificamerican.com Also, CO2 is starting to get change the pH of the oceans. That doesn't help. Washington State Plans for a More Acid Ocean news.discovery.com new research by Seattle scientists concludes that corrosive seas are damaging pteropods right now — decades earlier than expected. And that damage was recorded in the south Atlantic Ocean, where surface pH doesn't dip as low as it has off the Washington coast or in Puget Sound. http://seattletimes.com/html/localnews/2019765681_pteropods26m.html

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