There is a need for much greater scientific understanding and research of our oceans ......... not emotional pseudo-scientific alarm. Please read this link.
http://www.seafriends.org.nz/issues/global/acid2.htm#CO2_vents

Whilst we have always understood with CO2 on land showing plants actually thriving there remains the possible fact that says vegetation and sea life have been starved for atmospheric CO2.

Thought this might help the Commonsensicas?

Australia's latest climate change report reads like a disaster novel

Most of our OLO contributors seem either Climate Change Denialists or lack courage to back CC.

The CC inbetweeners seem mostly those who wish for the CC
worries to go away - those still happy with life the way it is, especially in sport or business.

Finis'- Quarry economics plus pitstock politics now Australia's lot for Big Biz racketeers. No worries about climate change.

Have Fun - BB

Bushbred,

there is also the category of 'Climate Change Fatalists', i.e.
"Yeah, the world is getting hotter, we don't know why, we don't know how and we don't care 'cause there ain't nothing we can do about it anyway. So build a bridge, and get over it."

First the Hockey stick fell by the wayside,now they are having doubts about global warming since the earth in reality has been cooling for the last 8yrs.

So to maintain the momentum, sense of urgency and panic,we need a new horror,"Acidification of our Oceans"Supposedly this is a result of CO2 forming carbonic acid.Now since industrial times ,we have increased CO2 levels by 30%.During the time of the Dinosaurs CO2 levels were 1000% greater than the present.The acidification of the oceans did not destroy life.In fact it adapted and thrived.

There is no doubt we need to curb our excesses,but this manipulation of stats by interest groups is only destroying their long term credibility.

Who will listen to the scientists when they eventually have a real doomsday scenario to express?

I'm not normally a believer in conspiracy theories, but the following has caused me to think, maybe there is something in it....There are some close links between the Club of Rome, Al Gore and many other pushers of the AGW line.

http://www.knowledgedrivenrevolution.com/Articles/200802/20080218_MTP_2_New_Man.htm

"In searching for a new enemy to unite us [all of humanity], we came up with the idea that pollution, the threat of global warming, water shortages, famine and the like would fit the bill. In their totality and in their interactions, these phenomena constitute a common threat which as the enemy, we fall into the trap about which we have already warned, namely mistaking symptoms for causes. All these dangers are caused by human intervention and it is only through changed attitudes and behaviour that they can be overcome. The real enemy then is humanity itself." - Alexander King and Bertrand Schneider, The First Global Revolution: A Report by the Council of The Club of Rome (1991).