{"id":3559,"date":"2011-01-13T10:31:08","date_gmt":"2011-01-13T15:31:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/?p=3559"},"modified":"2011-01-13T10:31:08","modified_gmt":"2011-01-13T15:31:08","slug":"worries-over-ocean-acidification","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2011\/01\/13\/worries-over-ocean-acidification\/","title":{"rendered":"Worries over ocean acidification"},"content":{"rendered":"

I listened with interest – and guilt – to Martha Foley and Dr. Curt Stager’s discussion of ocean acidification on Natural Selections this morning<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Interest because this topic deserves far more attention.\u00a0 Guilt because this is so very scary that I have been avoiding it, ostrich-like, hoping fervently that the chemistry scenarios are wrong, and we are not staring into the face of total disaster.<\/p>\n

A Canadian journalist wrote a book on this subject that I’d like to recommend, while admitting I have yet to read it myself:<\/p>\n

Sea Sick: the Hidden Crisis in the Global Ocean<\/em> by Alanna Mitchell
\nPublished 2008 in Australia by Murdoch Books; in 2009 in Canada by McClelland & Stewart, in the U.S. by University of Chicago Press and in the U.K. by Oneworld<\/p>\n

Reviews like this one<\/a> from Richard Ellis for the Globe and Mail made the case for the importance of the subject. <\/em><\/p>\n

Sea Sick<\/em> came to my attention again when it was nominated for a 2010 Canadian science book award, which was won by Ottawa research scientist Dr. Ernie Small (interviewed here<\/a>).<\/p>\n

Some soundbites or quotes really stand out. Naturally, I cannot find the article in question now!\u00a0 But this is the part I remember: when researcher Joanie Kleypas understood the likely impact of changes in ocean acidity, author Mitchell recounts that Kleypas “ran into the bathroom outside the committee room and threw up.”\u00a0 Because it really could mean marine Armageddon. And as the ocean goes, so goes the earth.<\/p>\n

Here is the author’s own website<\/a>, which I’ll post in the interest of furthering discussion on something I suspect most of us would really rather avoid.<\/p>\n

Boy, I hope these projections are wrong.\u00a0 But what if they are not?\u00a0 And how can anyone really know in advance?<\/p>\n

Heavy stuff indeed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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