{"id":447919,"date":"2010-03-19T08:20:25","date_gmt":"2010-03-19T12:20:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/climaterealists.com\/index.php?id=5385"},"modified":"2010-03-19T08:20:25","modified_gmt":"2010-03-19T12:20:25","slug":"virginian-pilot-deceives-readers-on-ocean-acidification-by-james-m-taylor-senior-fellow-of-environment-policy-at-the-heartland-institute","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/447919","title":{"rendered":"Virginian-Pilot Deceives Readers on Ocean Acidification by James M. Taylor: Senior fellow of environment policy at The Heartland Institute."},"content":{"rendered":"

Article Tags: James M. Taylor<\/a>, Reply To Article<\/a><\/p>\n

The old-fashioned news media is bleeding revenue, jobs, and influence, and media insiders claim they cannot figure out why. Many reasons are to blame, but one major reason is reader frustration with a lack of balanced reporting. A good illustration is a March 11 Hampton Roads Virginian-Pilot article on the public showing of a Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) movie on alleged ocean acidification.<\/p>\n

The Virginian-Pilot article, \u201cSeas\u2019 acidity threatens life, livelihoods, film says,<\/a>\u201d presented arguments made by NRDC \u2013 an environmental activist group \u2013 in its movie, \u201cAcid Test,\u201d but did not mention the substantial scientific evidence that contradicts NRDC\u2019s alarmism.<\/p>\n

The article parroted, without any critical examination, NRDC claims that the oceans are becoming \u201cmore acidic\u201d as a result of higher carbon dioxide content. The oceans, however, are not acidic. The pH balance of water is measured on a scale of 1 to 14. Water with a pH of 7 is neutral. Water with a pH below 7 is acidic, and above 7 is alkaline. The pH of the world\u2019s oceans is 8.1, which is alkaline.<\/p>\n

The article reported as fact the film\u2019s claim that ocean acidity has increased 30 percent since the Industrial Revolution. However, a 2005 study in the peer-reviewed journal Nature reports ocean pH was between 8.1 and 8.2 at the dawn of the Industrial Revolution, and has decreased by less than 0.1 since then.<\/p>\n

The Virginian-Pilot article also presented NRDC claims that ocean acidification is harming marine life. However, recent studies published in peer-reviewed journals such as Proceedings of the National Academies of Sciences, Biogeosciences, Global Change Biology, and Journal of Geophysical Research have all found that marine life is either unaffected by \u2013 or significantly benefits from \u2013 higher carbon dioxide content and lower pH.
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\nSource: heartland.org<\/p>\n

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