Dear Paul,
Can you please send me your "off-CONCH-L" email address? I've tried a couple, and also snail mail to your LA home address, but have not been able to contact you.
Thanks very much,
Alan Kohn
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On Mon, 30 Nov 2015, Paul Kanner wrote:
> Thank you Dave, for posing a very well thought out and articulate question.
> Regards,
> Paul Kanner
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> On Sunday, November 29, 2015 11:55 PM, David Lum <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> Conch-L Community,
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> The article left me wanting more. So, what exactly is the pH trend in this area? The article talks a lot about acidification
> without actually mentioning any pH values. What studies have been done on the effects of ocean acidification resulting from
> “natural” causes, like volcanic eruptions, which, I imagine, can produce much more drastic reduction in pH in a localized area than
> slow infusion of dilute CO2 concentrations from the atmosphere. Also, it’s hard to imagine that anthropogenic CO2 has already
> overwhelmed the buffering effects of all of the calcium carbonate that has been produced over the course of billions of years. Maybe
> it has, but it is very hard to imagine. We haven’t run out of oil yet and it will be a long time before we will. How can a resource
> like calcium carbonate, which has as its source many of the same life forms that eventually decomposed to form oil deposits, be
> exhausted in its ability to counter a weak acid, like carbonic acid? Also, what have temperatures been like in the area in question
> , and has anyone looked at its contribution to the problems encountered by the scallops. Calcium carbonate has a very unusual
> property in that it becomes more soluble with drops in temperature. Are the temperatures in the area dropping, resulting in poorer
> shell formation in the scallop population? Science should always involve looking at things from multiple angles. The whole ocean
> acidification topic should be treated the same.
>
> Aloha,
> Dave
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> http://thetyee.ca/News/2015/11/23/Scallop-Farmer-Acid-Test/
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