[Coral-List] using bubbles to remove CO2 from reef water

Stephen Frink sf at stephenfrink.com
Mon May 2 14:08:27 EDT 2016


Steve - What makes you think the dive industry disbelieves climate change and/or CO2 issues?  Anyone I dive with, most of whom have several decades’ experience seeing changes in the reef ecosystems we dive, realizes we have issues.  Anecdotal perhaps, but so is a broad brush painting all.

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> On May 2, 2016, at 8:40 AM, Steve Mussman <sealab at earthlink.net> wrote:
> 
> This presents the diving industry with a rather perplexing dilemma. 
> 
> They could cite this study to promote the idea that coral reefs benefit from our bubbles, but then they would be forced to admit that a problem relating to rising CO2 levels actually exists.
> 
> Sent from my iPhone
> 
> 
> 
> Sent from my iPhone
>> On May 2, 2016, at 7:18 AM, Bill Allison <allison.billiam at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>> So, the small issues of thermodynamic considerations and the ultimate fate
>> of the CO2 aside, divers may help reefs?
>> 
>> On Sun, May 1, 2016 at 12:57 AM, Douglas Fenner <
>> douglasfennertassi at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> Protecting coral reefs with bubbles
>>> 
>>> https://earth.stanford.edu/news/protecting-coral-reefs-bubbles
>>> 
>>> Open-access
>>> 
>>> Original article:
>>> 
>>> Bubble stripping as a tool to reduce high dissolved CO2 in coastal marine
>>> ecosystems.  Environmental Science & Technology
>>> 
>>> http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/acs.est.5b04733
>>> 
>>> not open-access, note author's email address
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