Claim: Ocean acidification locks algal communities in a simplified state

A truly dumb paper pushing an idea so easily exposed to be junk science, heck just reading it is enough to know that.

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Claim: Ocean acidification locks algal communities in a simplified state

January 17, 2021

Excerpt:

Researchers from the University of Tsukuba find that ocean acidification restricts algal communities to a state of low biodiversity and complexity

UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA

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Tsukuba, Japan – Out with the old, in with the new, as the New Year’s saying goes, but not where the marine environment is concerned. Researchers from Japan have discovered that ocean acidification keeps algal communities locked in a simplified state of low biodiversity.

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They seem unaware that the ocean is already packed with a lot of CO2 in it, a trivial addition of yearly CO2 to it from a parched atmosphere of just.... he he... ha ha... 435 ppm.

 

The hits just keep on coming.

New Study: Coral Bleaching ‘Repeatedly Occurred’ Throughout The Warmer-Than-Today Mid-Holocene
By Kenneth Richard on 18. January 2021

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Mid-Holocene South China Sea maximum temperatures were ~3.5°C warmer (33.5°C vs. today’s 29.9°C) about 5000 yrs ago, when corals experienced an “optimum coral growth period”. There were “numerous coral bleaching episodes” even when temperatures weren’t as high, as coral bleaching is naturally occurring.
Key points from a new study (Wang et al., 2021) that throws cold water on the claims that modern coral bleaching is unprecedented, unusual, or unnatural.

• “Compared with the average Sr/Ca-SST of the 1990s, the Sr/Ca-SST between 6800 and 5000 B.P. was 0.9°C–0.5°C higher.”

• “A warmer climate makes the mid-Holocene an optimum coral growth period when corals grew abundantly (Clark et al., 2018; Yan et al., 2019).”

• “During the period 3434–4568 B.P., the climate was colder than 6.8–5.0 ka B.P., but there were numerous coral bleaching episodes.”

• “[C]oral bleaching caused by thermal stress has been repeated over the long-term scale of the mid-late Holocene period and severe or prolonged coral bleaching events can lead to massive coral death.”

• “[T]he mid-late Holocene coral thermal bleaching events are a natural response to abnormal temperature.”

• There is “evidence of rapid recovery after bleaching” and “coral bleaching events have occurred repeatedly in the mid-late Holocene during times of high SST, and corals have proved to be resilient despite this environmental stress.”. . . .

 

When Exposed To Natural, Long-Term Extreme ‘Ocean Acidification’, Coral And Urchin ‘Persist’ And Even ‘Thrive’
By Kenneth Richard on 29. June 2020

Marine species subjected to high CO2 extremes – 8,891 to 95,000 ppm – in their natural environments may not be adversely affected. They may even “thrive”. Earlier this year we highlighted a study that says coral reefs “thrive” near seafloor volcanic vents where CO2 concentrations reach 60,000 to 95,000 ppm. Image Source: PHYS.ORG Urchins basking in […]

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3 More New Papers Expose The Folly Of ‘Ocean Acidification’ Claims
By Kenneth Richard on 24. May 2018

According to McElhany, 2017, “there are no studies that directly demonstrate modern day effects of OA [ocean acidification] on marine species.” There still aren’t. Image Source: McElhany, 2017 Scientists claim that the ocean’s global mean surface pH may have declined (i.e., became less alkaline and thus more “acidic”) by -0.08 in the last 265 years — from 8.13 during pre-industrial […]

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The ‘Ocean Acidification’ Narrative Collapses Under The Weight Of New Scientific Evidence
By Kenneth Richard on 29. December 2016

The ocean “acidification” narrative that claims humans are gradually lowering pH levels in sea water with their CO2 emissions may rest on presumptions, hypotheticals, and confirmation bias — not robust, observational scientific evidence. A paper by Wei et al. (2015) published a year ago in the Journal of Geophysical Research effectively illustrates the vacuousness of the […]

 

Claim: Major discovery helps explain coral bleaching
Charles Rotter
ECOLE POLYTECHNIQUE FÉDÉRALE DE LAUSANNE Research News Corals, like all animals, must eat to live. The problem is that most corals grow in tropical waters that are poor in nutrients,…

 

There's a battle for academic freedom going on in Australia.

Big Victory in War of Academic Freedom
Charles Rotter
The Institute of Public Affairs has today welcomed the historic judgement of the High Court in the case of James Cook University (JCU) v Peter Ridd, which has given Dr…

 

JCU's retreat has begun.

James Cook University Walks Back Extreme Global Warming Coral Extinction Claims
Eric Worrall
Peter Ridd is right – the Great Barrier Reef is not in immediate danger of dying. James Cook University, Peter Ridd’s adversary in his unfair dismissal court case, has just…

 

Coral Extinction Crisis Canceled – New Study Documents Billions of Coral Colonies
CORAL REEFS MARCH 5, 2021

 

All reefs look dead from a plane — Great Barrier Reef still alive underwater
Can you spot a dead coral from 120 meters in the air?
The media and academic experts keep telling us the reef is dead. Jen Marohasy points out that the death of the Great Barrier Reef was diagnosed from the sky, so she had the radical idea of going out to reefs like Pixie reef to photograph it underwater instead. She didn’t receive any of the $440m Malcolm Turnbull sent to save the reef. But strangely, none of those millions appears to be used to do something as banal as a swimming near a coral. In an earlier post she described how many of the corals grow in vertical walls, which are very difficult to spot from a plane. Now she’s demonstrating how hard it is to spot even obvious things from a plane. . . .

 

No, NPR, ‘Acidification’ Is Not Threatening Oceans
OCEAN ACIDIFICATION MARCH 23, 2021

 

Finale’ – Peter Ridd vs. James Cook University
Anthony Watts
Dr. Peter Ridd writes on Facebook: We just got notification that the High Court appeal hearing will be by the Full Court at 10:00am on Wednesday, 23 June 2021 in…

 

More integrity issues at JCU.

Ocean Acidification Effects Research in Doubt
Kip Hansen
“Munday’s and Dixson’s data on chemical signal preference had a “0 out of 10,000” chance of being real. They left it to the reader to decide what to think about…

 

New Scientific Scandal Shaking The Climate Alarm Industry
May 09, 2021/ Francis Menton

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  As readers at this site are well aware, the field of climate “science” and alarmism is subject to an extraordinary degree of orthodoxy enforcement, where all information supporting the official narrative gets enthusiastically promoted, while all information disagreeing with the official narrative gets suppressed or attacked. For just one recent example of the latter, see the Wall Street Journal editorial in the current weekend edition reporting on a bogus Facebook “fact check” of the Journal’s recent review of Steven Koonin’s new book “Unsettled.”
  
  
• In this context, an article just out on May 6 in the journal Science is truly remarkable. The article is titled “Does ocean acidification alter fish behavior? Fraud allegations create a sea of doubt.” It has the byline of Martin Enserink, Science’s international news editor.
  
  
• Science has a long history of publishing every sort of climate alarmism, and of being an unreceptive forum for anything expressing any sort of skepticism, let alone alleging fraud in claims of climate alarm.
  
  
• Something serious must be going on here.
  

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It would be nice if we could shelf CO2 at 1200ppm. That's the optimum CO2 level for plant growth and is used in green houses and such. Of course the newer varieties (or adaptations) of plants and ocean algae would have a harder time with the changes but evolution occurs over a millions of years and the Co2 was much higher a million+ years ago.

The one thing algae never had an opportunity to adapt and evolve to handle is all the chemicals, sewage, and garbage we dump into the ocean. Of course none that has anything to do with it. Its always the great enemy CO2 single handedly destroying the earth and dragging us into the fires of hell.

 

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