tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28837843.post8957741847532550837..comments2024-03-19T07:10:27.303-07:00Comments on Quark Soup by David Appell: Yes, Ocean Acidity Has Increased by 30%David Appellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03318269033139447591noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28837843.post-36258815174338047032013-02-20T08:21:32.498-08:002013-02-20T08:21:32.498-08:00NOAA's "agenda" is to do science, an...NOAA's "agenda" is to do science, and communicate it, as best they can. That means being as accurate as possible, and their claim about acidity does exactly that. <br /><br />Marine organisms react to the acidity, and that's increasing, and it's a problem. David Appellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03318269033139447591noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28837843.post-58286979046385846692013-02-20T06:01:54.124-08:002013-02-20T06:01:54.124-08:00NOAA may be right, but it is right in a way that i...NOAA may be right, but it is right in a way that is purposely misleading to the general public, in support of its political agenda. That's the worse kind of right to be.TheFishmongerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18338292298898562493noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28837843.post-26457788431530691192012-07-08T07:16:59.232-07:002012-07-08T07:16:59.232-07:00Mr. Wiese: pH is not acidity, but a certain functi...Mr. Wiese: pH is not acidity, but a certain function of acidity used for convenience. <br /><br />NOAA is right. You are wrong.David Appellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03318269033139447591noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28837843.post-89245262144727976522012-07-08T00:57:37.192-07:002012-07-08T00:57:37.192-07:00Appell: In your never ending eagerness to validate...Appell: In your never ending eagerness to validate AGW, your weakness in argument is just as apparent here. <br /><br />As usual, in your eagerness to discredit your own critics, you miss the point of my letter posted on WUWT entirely. <br /><br />In every story and in most research done with respect to acidity or alkalinity, the numbers are reported in powers of hydrogen ions, NOT H+ iteslf. Natural variability in pH in the ocean system is at least 5% from the mean of 8.2 pH units or .41 units. That,of course, makes the change of .1 pH units in 100 years WELL WITHIN the natural variability of pH as we have been observing it. <br /><br />There is no story here unless the pH equation is solved for H+ as NOAA did and swap the number with pH units. That makes it well outside natural variablity and now we have a juicy story. That is completely fraudulent and disengenuous to compare H+ with the pH to take the percentages out of the norms.<br /><br /> You, of course, never mentioned this. Let alone your silly comments about how a few unusual acids can cause a negative pH, yet you then acknowledge this is not the norm. ( So why mention it? What is the significance of those few acids amoungst most others that fall between 0 and 14 pH units? )<br /><br />This sort of lack of any interest in investigative journalism by you as a claimed scientist is just one reason why I question your academic credentials. <br /><br />You are quick to point out that I have no doctorate degree compared to your own claim and further, that people like Dr. Fulks ( Ph.D in Astrophysics ) nor I ever did any "research" that was "peer reviewed" in climate science journals, but yet, we find that in addition to you NEVER having been employed at ANY university in ANY sort of position as a faculty member, you have also NEVER published in ANY climate science journal you claim we should have.<br /><br />Instead of all of the Ph.D "union card" crap you like to pull, you should stick to relevant facts and just prove where your opponents are wrong. You have never been able to do this, Appell, and you also engage in dishonest and disengenuous dialogue such as in this article to attempt to defend the indefensible. That would be my guess as to why you have little credibility with most that you communicate with.<br /><br />Chuck Wiese<br />MeteorologistUnknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01119609666965649229noreply@blogger.com