The Heartland Institute publishes a Monthly news letter concerning Environmental and Climate News. It is a great source of info when all you hear are the doorknobs in the MSM spouting off the Global Warming talking points.
http://www.heartland.org/custom/semod_policybot/pdf/27529.pdf
Here is an article from the News Letter:
EPA to Address ‘Ocean Acidification’
The U.S. Environmental Protection
Agency has announced it
will address so-called ocean acidification,
making a deal with the
Center for Biological Diversity to
produce guidance on the topic by
November 15.
Global warming alarmists assert
increasing levels of carbon dioxide
lead to increasingly acidic water,
which makes it more difficult for
shellfish and invertebrates to calcify
their shells.
EPA’s decision came after the
state of Washington declined to list
its marine waters as impaired under
the Clean Water Act. The Center for
Biological Diversity sued EPA, arguing
the agency should have required
Washington to classify its marine
water as impaired.
A 2005 study published in the peer reviewed
journal Nature reports ocean
pH was between 8.1 and 8.2 at the
dawn of the Industrial Revolution—
before humans began emitting significant
amounts of carbon dioxide—and
remains between 8.1 and 8.2 today.
These levels are alkaloid, not acidic.
Studies published in peer-reviewed
journals such as Proceedings of the
National Academies of Sciences, Biogeosciences,
Global Change Biology,
and Journal of Geophysical Research
have found marine life is unaffected
by or benefits from higher carbon
dioxide content and lower pH.
James M. Taylor (jtaylor@heart
land.org) is a senior fellow of The
Heartland Institute and managing
editor of Environment & Climate
News.
Read it and get informed! And that's the All Right Idea!