http://www.techienews.co.uk/9723874/pioneerin...itor-ocean-acidification/

If we let this one go people will believe anything

They claim they can measure the pH of the Planets Oceans from Space

This is due to the claim that our CO2 emissions are making the Oceans more acidic and now by magic they can perform the Litmus Test by Satellite

First of all quite aside from being able to see, by proxy, the Oceans pH value from outside our atmosphere the Oceans are Alkali, strongly so, and are full of dissolved salts and carbonate buffers that stabilize the Ocean pH within tight boundaries.

Add acid and the carbonate buffers cancel this change

This is why it is more difficult to keep marine tropical fish than fresh water ones
http://www.tropic-marin.com/meersalze/tropic-marin-meersalz/?lang=en
within the small body of water that is an aquarium.

Here's how carbonate buffering works

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bicarbonate_buffering_system

and here in the Oceans

http://www.ehow.com/info_8299150_carbonate-buffering.html


note the line "The ocean's buffering capacity -- its ability to soak up acid or base -- is very large"


Dave

p.s. maybe if we filled the Oceans with universal indicator solution the Satellites would then be able to see what colour it turned.... one small problem... it would be bluey green

Of course a single Niagara Falls freeze-up cannot be said to have been caused by global warming; but what is known about global warming says such freeze-ups are now more probable than they were.

So, just a taste of what is to come as the warming trend continues.

http://www.natice.noaa.gov/pub/special/great_...te_east/el150221color.jpg

http://www.natice.noaa.gov/pub/special/great_...te_west/wl150221color.jpg

It's in soaking up the alarming warming that these Great Lakes freeze

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-llwm-T2EpQ

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halo_%28optical_phenomenon%29

You know this Man Made Global Warming...............