Where can I find out more about ocean acidification?
For scientific news, an excellent, constantly updated source is Ocean Acidification, a portal and blog sponsored by the European Project on Ocean Acification. Another excellent source is the PMEL Ocean Acidification site. For basic information, check out the Wikipedia article. Or follow A Sea Change on twitter.
What is “ocean acidification”?
When we think about urgent threats to our environment, the images which come to mind are usually smokestacks and automobiles belching exhaust and smoke into the sky. But much of that pollution–the carbon that billows into the atmosphere from cars, power plants and other smokestack industries–doesn’t stay there. Much of it is absorbed by the […]
What can I personally do to reduce ocean acidfication?
Any action you’d take to reduce release of CO2 in the atmosphere will help. So at home, for example, if your electricity comes from coal-fired plants, turn off unneccessary lights. In some part of the United States, it’s possible to choose where your electricity comes from; you can request that all your power be generated […]
What are the potential long-term consequences of ocean acidification?
Over the next century, steady increases in carbon dioxide emissions and the resulting rise in the acidity of the oceans could cause most of the world’s fisheries to experience a total bottom-up collapse, a state that could last for millions of years. Ocean acidification threatens over 1,000,000 species with extinction–and the protein source for 1 […]
What action is being taken to curb ocean acidification?
So far, not much! Reducing ocean acidification means reducing carbon output. And, as you know, nations are struggling to agree on acceptable levels of greenhouse gas. The upcoming meeting in Copenhagen this December, COP-15, will be a crucial time for all countries to come to grips with the reality of climate change, above and in […]
What about carbon sequestration?
So far, no reliable method has been found for removing excess carbon from the atmosphere, other than dissolving it in the ocean. Which as we’ve just learned isn’t a good idea! A method may be found, but until then, the only solution we know is radically reducing the burning of fossil fuels. Period.
Can the scenario really be this grim? Why haven’t I heard about it before?
Given all of the attention we’re paying to climate change on the earth’s surface, it does seem surprising that this threat has gone relatively unnoticed so long. Most of us don’t look below the ocean’s surface. As long as we see fish in the supermarket and on our table, we don’t question where they’re coming from. […]
Free Popcorn and Lemonade Screening
By Daniel de la Calle ≈≈≈The Duke Chapel Congregation has scheduled a free outdoor screening of A Sea Change this Friday, July 20th (at dusk, around 8:30PM). Moviegoers “are encouraged to bring their own lawn chairs and blankets. Free popcorn and lemonade will be provided. A discussion will follow the film. In case of rain, […]
How Much Do You Know About Water And The Oceans?
By Daniel de la Calle Let’s play a little quiz game thanks to some of the Sierra Club Knowledge Cards, see how much you know about water and the oceans. I encourage you to to buy as presents these fun decks of cards, a good companion for road trips, both interesting and educational. They can […]
In The Name Of Hope
By Daniel de la Calle There Ocean Acidification news this week is about the impact it might have in the reproduction and growth of squid. In the years since A Sea Change was conceived the list of threatened species has only grown, with every new study painting a somber picture for the future of fish, […]
Interview with Elias and Sven
By Daniel de la Calle Between lemonades, swimming pools and ice cream Sven and Elias sat down for this brief interview, five years after the beginning of A Sea Change:
January 2013
By Daniel de la Callehttp://www.danieldelacalle.com/ Gone is 2012, the hottest or coldest year in recent history depending on where you live, gone too are the days of Ocean Acidification information famine. You can now watch videos deciphering the oceans, listen to songs about acidity, follow via tweets a research expedition to Antarctica, attend a seminar […]
100 Screenings in Chile
By Daniel de la Calle About a year ago I traveled with our documentary to Chile for a series of screenings in Santiago, Valparaiso and Puerto Montt. While in Valparaiso I had the chance to meet with some of the local Natural History Museum staff, under renovation at the time. They liked the film for […]
July, July!
By Daniel de la Calle Some news before the month comes to an end: ≈≈≈≈≈≈≈≈≈≈≈≈≈≈≈≈≈≈≈≈≈≈≈≈≈≈ “The Australian government announced plans to construct the largest network of marine reserves in the world, more than doubling the number of coastal reserves to 60 from its existing 27. The new regulations will limit fishing and oil and gas […]
13 News for the 31st
By Daniel de la Calle Three years ago you really needed to scrape at the bottom of the barrel to come up with news on the web about Ocean Acidification. Today I am “only” posting 13 items and have to leave at least 10 more out: ≈≈≈≈64% of the waters existing outside national jurisdiction, the […]
Late February, Late Winter News
By Daniel de la Calle We cannot let the month end and watch the season slowly fade out without a postful of links, videos, news and photos on Ocean Acidification: »The Oceanography Laboratory at Villefranche-sur-Mer (France) is deploying nine “mesocosms” (52 m3) over a 30 days period in order to cover the range of pCO2 […]
400 Blows
By Daniel de la Calle 400 blows do not raise hell after all: This month of May 2013 will be remembered as the time when we passed that 400ppm line of CO2 concentration in the atmosphere. The media often uses the crossing of such a round, numeric Rubicons to begin global campaigns and to instigate […]
Marching Through March
By Daniel de la Calle March 2013 is furiously peeling off days from the calendar, desperate to pass the torch on to other months, other seasons. Time these days feels radically non-linear, we better post some news about the oceans and acidification this very day: •According to a new paper published in Nature Geoscience predators […]
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Not Only Ocean Acidification
By Daniel de la Calle ≈≈≈Marine researchers from around the world are in Cairns, Australia, this week for the 12th International Coral Reef Symposium (July 9-13): “From Cairns, 2,600 scientists have signed a Consensus Statement on Climate Change and Coral Reefs. The consensus statement calls for a worldwide effort to overcome growing threats to coral ecosystems […]
A Hard Nut
By Daniel de la Calle Open your mouth and repeat after me: “SA-PU-CA-IA!” I know a month and a half ago I posted what was to be my last text on the blog, but these things happen constantly and if politicians make a living of it I too am fully entitled to say one thing […]
Overflow
By Daniel de la Calle How much is too much? When does a stream of information flow over and one more entry, article, news piece or documentary simply becomes redundant, numbing white noise, counterproductive annoyance? Searching online today, the 12th of April of 2013, for the term Ocean Acidification brings up 1.900.000 pages. Little compared […]
After the Storm
By Daniel de la Calle The storm passed and so did the election, strangely intertwining both in a way that made hard to distinguish one from the other. In a world steamrolling to global weirding certain people call a late October hurricane in Manhattan “the new normal”. For some absurd reason such a catchphrase has […]
Painting Destruction By Numbers
By Daniel de la Calle 1 In less than two weeks our good friend and Associate Producer Ben Kalina will be premiering his new documentary SHORED UP at the Monclair Film Festival. We are all equally proud and eager to watch the final result of over three years of work and dedication. SHORE UP: “Our […]
All Seas: INDIAN OCEAN
By Daniel de la Calle Simon Reeve’s six-episode series titled Indian Ocean delivers a kaleidoscopic view of the world’s third largest body of water, the one least studied by scientists. Starting in South Africa and ending in Australia, passing through rocky cliffs in Oman and the endless beaches of Orissa, each episode hides, disguised in the […]