Posted on 06/23/2014 5:01:44 PM PDT by ConservativeStatement
Could climate change mean fewer stone crabs in South Florida?
Increasing carbon dioxide in the oceans has made it harder for the succulent sea creatures and potentially other shellfish to reproduce, according to Philip Gravinese, a marine biologist working with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
(Excerpt) Read more at sun-sentinel.com ...
He gave them to Hillary
Something is wildly off with this story.
Crab shells are made of calcium carbonate. They make that by combining calcium ions with carbon dioxide. Since it makes no sense at all that the crabs would have more difficulty making shells when more of the starting material is present—assuming that enough calcium was added to the water that it would not be a limiting factor—then something else is going on here.
I suspect that the pH of the water was too low, favoring dissolution of the calcium carbonate, and interfering with metabolic processes of the crabs.
BULL SPERM...
Can anyone quantify the rate of carbon dioxide increase in the oceans?
I know that Co2 in the atmosphere is supposedly at 400 parts per million, when it was said to be at 200 parts per million at the beginning of the industrial age (which happens to coincide with the end of the Little Ice Age)...
Perhaps the oceanic rate is equally miniscule or an indicator of other events such as...Oh, I dunno...
The end of the Little Ice Age?
Perhaps warming temperatures leads to a rising of Co2 levels, rather than the opposite?
Since one or another kind of crab has been around since the Jurassic, I suspect they’re pretty good at adapting.
Currently CO2 constitutes some 350-390 Parts Per Million in the atmosphere.
Why can’t we set a goal to at least cut that number in half?
Do our leaders not have enough guts and courage?
Just aweful what we will leave succeeding generations.
stop being a crab and start carping....
po Cwabs. ..I’ll save you....
You Series?
Heretic....
/S
So I have immunity?
Gotta get to werx....
I think you've got it right. Rising temperatures seem to result in rising CO2 concentrations, rather than the opposite that the hysterics are braying on about.
Based on the rapidly dropping temperatures you see below about every 100,000 years or so, and given that we're at a peak and it's been almost 100,000 years since the last precipitous drop in world temperature, what do you think is most likely to happen next: warming or cooling? 
The answer is yes. Climate change will affect all life on planet Earth.
Do we care? Should we do anything about it? Can we?
Anything beyond that is cult, not science.
I don’t know about the crabs, but here in the Blueberry Capitol of the World our farmers are upset about a crop of berries which is about half the usual because of the very long and very cold winter we just endured - global cooling climate change is a real b*tch.....
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