{"id":1418,"date":"2009-03-11T04:29:49","date_gmt":"2009-03-11T12:29:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/?p=1418"},"modified":"2009-09-28T19:31:04","modified_gmt":"2009-09-29T03:31:04","slug":"dissolved-truth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/?p=1418","title":{"rendered":"Dissolved Truth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A <abbr title=\"potential of Hydrogen\">pH<\/abbr> change of .24 of the oceans is definitely cause for concern.  However, the natural <abbr title=\"potential of Hydrogen\">pH<\/abbr> of seawater is 8.2, well into the alkaline range, and reducing that by something between .24 and .45 would mean that the ocean were <em>still<\/em> in the alkaline range (though quite worryingly less).  So the headline here <div style=\"padding: 1em ;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/science\/nature\/7936137.stm\"><q>Acidic seas fuel extinction fears<\/q> by Roger Harrabin of the <abbr title=\"British Broadcasting Corporation\">BBC<\/abbr><\/a><\/div> and much of the <em>rhetoric<\/em> within the body of the article is just <em>rot<\/em>.<\/p> <p>As to the suggestion that the <abbr title=\"potential of Hydrogen\">pH<\/abbr> will be lowered by as much as .35, it comes from the <abbr title=\"Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change\">IPCC<\/abbr>, so <span style=\"font-style: italic ;\">caveat lector<\/span>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A pH change of .24 of the oceans is definitely cause for concern. However, the natural pH of seawater is 8.2, well into the alkaline range, and reducing that by something between .24 and .45 would mean that the ocean were still in the alkaline range (though quite worryingly less). So the headline here Acidic [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,9,104,4],"tags":[182,190],"class_list":["post-1418","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-commentary","category-ideology-philosophy","category-news","category-public","tag-journalism","tag-pseudo-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1418","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1418"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1418\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}