Aya

[Doktor Howl]

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In a society where sitting around for justice is bad, but sitting around for a cheap television is good... What could possibly go wrong?

Well, the oceans could turn to acid.

That's pretty much where my mind was at. And it's the scariest thing I've thought of in a long, long time.

http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/features/2014/07/great-american-oyster-collapse-2014720132433957401.html

As best as I can figure - bear in mind that I am not a climatologist - we're in a race between acid oceans or salvation via ice age.

Cold water sinks even more CO2.

Well, yes, and then it goes to the bottom muck and it's someone else's problem after the ice age, right?  I mean, that's why the permafrost is farting CO2 out like it ate lengua the night before.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

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In a society where sitting around for justice is bad, but sitting around for a cheap television is good... What could possibly go wrong?

Well, the oceans could turn to acid.

That's pretty much where my mind was at. And it's the scariest thing I've thought of in a long, long time.

http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/features/2014/07/great-american-oyster-collapse-2014720132433957401.html

As best as I can figure - bear in mind that I am not a climatologist - we're in a race between acid oceans or salvation via ice age.

Cold water sinks even more CO2.

Well, yes, and then it goes to the bottom muck and it's someone else's problem after the ice age, right?  I mean, that's why the permafrost is farting CO2 out like it ate lengua the night before.

Not exactly; all that acidified water eventually upwells and wreaks even greater havoc on organisms that require a calcium exoskeleton.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

I've heard a few people saying that we're past the tipping point now. Even if the whole planet quit burning fossil fuel and dumping shit in the ocean tomorrow, it'd be too late. Maybe science will save us

Part of me hopes it doesn't because the inevitable public consensus will then become "See - climate change was a myth after all" 

Every ecological projection I've seen in the last year says we're past it. But there's always a chance that the ecologists are wrong!

It's never too late to hope to be wrong.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

I don't think they are, though.

http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/10212767/Kai-moana-days-numbered-US-expert

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

This is actually the thing that freaks me out the most: http://www.princeton.edu/grandchallenges/energy/research-highlights/ocean-acidification/

[Cain]

This is exactly the sort of stuff I was talking about a couple of years ago, in that thread where I said we were all fucked.

We're all fucked, by the way.

[Ben Shapiro]

Just remove the gluten from the acidic water.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

This is exactly the sort of stuff I was talking about a couple of years ago, in that thread where I said we were all fucked.

We're all fucked, by the way.

Yes, I would tend to agree.

[xXRon_Paul_42016Xxx(weed)]

Just remove the gluten from the acidic water.

If all the fish just went Vegan there would be no problem.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

Why can't the water just remember how to be less acidic?

[Eater of Clowns]

Why can't the water just remember how to be less acidic?

At that level of dilution, we'll just all become immune to acid. Hydrofluoric acid baths for everyone!

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

Why can't the water just remember how to be less acidic?

At that level of dilution, we'll just all become immune to acid. Hydrofluoric acid baths for everyone!

Oysters should be immune to acid by now, then! Maybe we just need to wait a few more years.

[Eater of Clowns]

Why can't the water just remember how to be less acidic?

At that level of dilution, we'll just all become immune to acid. Hydrofluoric acid baths for everyone!

Oysters should be immune to acid by now, then! Maybe we just need to wait a few more years.

Don't be ridiculous, oysters don't have the cognitive ability for the placebo effect to take hold.

[Cain]

Why can't the water just remember how to be less acidic?

...said it's friends on Facebook.

[Cain]

This is exactly the sort of stuff I was talking about a couple of years ago, in that thread where I said we were all fucked.

We're all fucked, by the way.

Yes, I would tend to agree.

Found the thread, by the way.  Has some fairly graphic descriptions of the kind of fallout we could see from 2, 4 and 6 celsius global temperature rises.