Environmentalists' Vocabulary Problem

Engaging in semantics over climate change or global warming avoids the real issue - simply CO2. While climate change advocates, the climatologists, and climate change deniers debate over the models for warming effects of CO2 the real crisis is ignored. CO2 has direct chemical effects which are far worse than global warming. First an foremost CO2 dissolves in the surface ocean where 1/4 of the trillion tonnes of CO2 already emitted during the fossil fuel age is making the ocean more acdic, 30% more in just decades. But worse CO2 nutures plants on land which are measurably growing greener and bushier and making better ground cover. Good you might think but the dust that the better ground cover is preventing from blowing in the winds is as critical for ocean produtivty as is the rain that blows in the wind is for land plants.

In just 30 years we've observed a many fold decimation of ocean plant life. 10% in the Southern Ocean, 17% in the N. Atlantic, 26% in the N. Pacific, and 50% in some tropical oceans. Those plants, the plankton and ocean pastures they used to sustain, are today not converting 4-5 billion tonnes of CO2 into ocean life. Instead those billions of tonnes of CO2 become deadly ocean acidification. All for the want of a little dust in the wind.

So while the climatologists fight to defend the turf and troughs of global warming and climate change they created against the deniers of anything and everything envrionmental the oceans are changing from life and fish filled seas to seas of bacteria and slime.

But all is not doom and gloom. 20 years and a quarter of a billion in ocean restoration research by scientists and engineers both public and private have shown we can replenish and restore the SEAS and affordably do so right away. For a fraction of the funds the climate change world wants to spend and deniers want to prevent fully 50% of the fossil CO2 problem can be grown into life filled sustainable ocean pastures in the same condition the ocean pasture were just 30 years ago. In the bargain half the crisis of fossil Co2 is solved and we provide restored pastures for fish... as Walt Whitman might have said, "all fish is plankton blooms."

Of course there is always a twist as both climate change pomoters and deniers are horrorfied that the basis for their interminable argument might be taken away with a low cost, immediately deployable, good for everyone and everything, technologially simple solution. Don't allow it the climate change advocates say we can't allow a solution costing 1% of the money we were counting on to generate immense political power derail our economic and politcal gravy train. Don't allow it cry the deniers ... as such a potent and immediately workable soluton would prove that there really was a problem by solving it.

Read more about restoring the SEAS and TREES at www.planktos-science.com

Russ of CA 8:11PM May 05, 2009