Are we really doing this?
I guess. I said what I believed, then I made a comment to exit the conversation, but it was brought back up.
I've frankly have never seen such a thing that I can recall, but perhaps I don't pay enough attention to the right sources.
Plenty of biologists wanting to study this stuff, funding though is the hard part. Considering how much of the planet is covered in ocean, and how much of our food still comes from the ocean, and the environmental considerations that mean we are all tied into the health of the ocean, and it's amazing how little funding is available.
You mean like ~$18B?
You mean like ~$18B?
Whose got that type of funding for marine research, and how do I tap into it?
You mean like ~$18B?
So you choose to believe all of the chemistry and physics we know about CO2 and the ocean are incorrect? I didn't say that, I said it's not happening as fast as we think. What is your basis for this belief?
Exiting the conversation is far from ideal, if you open your mind you might learn something. You have a belief. I am a scientific expert on the matter. Do you see the discrepancy here? If you had cancer, would you believe something about cancer that was directly opposite to what a an oncologist would tell you about your cancer? Why? The oncologist is an expert.
But how does arrogantly saying "I'm an expert" prove anything? And yes I would. Evolution is a great example, I don't believe it because I don't buy into twisted and manipulated evidence to prove a hypothesis. I'm a creationist, and I personally think that method of thinking explains things much better than evolution could ever do. But back to reefs, I believe differently than most do on these subjects because I don't want to believe something that, frankly, is just not true.
This is especially puzzling on a coral reef keeping website, where conservation of the organisms we care about requires an understanding of inorganic carbon and carbonate
Randy, you referred to warming as political and a sideshow, am I getting a vibe you are skeptical of anthropogenic warming? I sincerely hope not.
Plenty of biologists wanting to study this stuff, funding though is the hard part. Considering how much of the planet is covered in ocean, and how much of our food still comes from the ocean, and the environmental considerations that mean we are all tied into the health of the ocean, and it's amazing how little funding is available.
Funding of ~18B from whom?
NFS? Hardly... not even close to a single billion
Sea Grant? hardly... I think they hit a 1.7M mark last year
Whose got that type of funding for marine research, and how do I tap into it?
Care to cite a source for that figure?