{"id":265,"date":"2013-09-26T20:13:44","date_gmt":"2013-09-27T04:13:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/future\/?p=265"},"modified":"2013-09-26T20:15:23","modified_gmt":"2013-09-27T04:15:23","slug":"ocean-acidification","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/future\/2013\/09\/26\/ocean-acidification\/","title":{"rendered":"Ocean Acidification"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There is a lot of focus on CO<sub>2<\/sub> and it&#8217;s affect on our climate.\u00a0 While those concerns are legitimate, I believe a more legitimate concern is the acidification of the ocean that results when CO<sub>2<\/sub> dissolves in it.\u00a0 We are in effect turning our oceans into big glasses of soda-pop.\u00a0 Carbolic acid inhibits the ability of shell fish to produce shells and that could severely disrupt the oceans Eco-system.<\/p>\n<p>We should be concerned about this as three quarters of the worlds food supply comes from the ocean.\u00a0 Oyster beds are failing along the Washington coast.\u00a0 It is difficult to separate the effects of CO<sub>2<\/sub> from human activities from other effects such as natural upwelling events and the inflow of fresh water. It is clear that in time the effects of anthropogenic CO<sub>2<\/sub> emissions will overwhelm other variables. It is not just a matter of coral reefs that are threatened, it is our own food supply.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is a lot of focus on CO2 and it&#8217;s affect on our climate.\u00a0 While those concerns are legitimate, I believe a more legitimate concern is the acidification of the ocean that results when CO2 dissolves in it.\u00a0 We are &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/future\/2013\/09\/26\/ocean-acidification\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-265","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-future"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/future\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/future\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/future\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/future\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/future\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=265"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/future\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/future\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/future\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/future\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}