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re: A warmer Finland
gbaikie — (archived)

"Ocean acidification is just one more example of something that could be catastrophic and yet we know little about. "

Well, we know the ocean is less acidic than the "purest" rain, nor is there any chance [none whatsoever] of it getting more acidic than purest rain [or distilled water, or the purest water humans are able to make].
Or in other words, the Ocean gets "acidified" whenever it rains. And the amount rainfall on the oceans is quite significant. We also know that the oceans are vast- an example being that if the Earth were completely flat the ocean would cover the entire surface of the Earth by about 3000'. The sky also is pretty big, but it's 100th the mass of the oceans. The sky is so big, that over 1 trillion tonnes of CO2 is in it, and the CO2 is .038 % of the volume, whereas in some areas H20 gas is 5% if the air's volume and about 1/30 of the mass of the sky falls yearly in the form of rain.

And the the surface area of the ocean is so vast that somewhere around 3/4 of all photosynthesis occurs in the ocean. And that most of surface waters of the ocean is sterile/pure in terms nutrients or "stuff" other than sea water and that coastal waters are an insignificant part of the entire ocean, though it does contain large amount of life of the oceans [anything involving coral is btw in coastal waters].

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