Flame — HabitableZone

Flame » in reply to re: "Cold ocean absorbs CO2 and warm oceans release CO2. "- Yet the ocean acidity is INCREASING due to increased CO2....

Too Many Variables For You To Juggle
Marsby — (archived)

Look Up LeChatleis Principle http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Le_Chatelier's_principle
or http://www.chemguide.co.uk/physical/equilibria/lechatelier.html before reading what follows. Most of the crap I see from denialists violates this fundamental chemical principle. You can't pump CO2 from stable geologically isolated sources into the dynamic ocean/atmospheric system and have it absorbed over the short time span we have been burning fossil fuels. Only the amount needed to balance the equilibrium equation for all the potential forms of absorption will be absorbed. The rest will stay in the atmosphere.

All things being equal a warmer ocean probably does release CO2. Unlike most solids raising the temperature of a gas solution decreases solubility. However, if you remove CO2 from an aqueous solution you increase it's pH not decrease it. Higher CO2 in the atmosphere, in the ocean, and higher temperatures are only consistent with more total CO2 in the system.

Regards,
Mark

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