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

[Steve Mussman]

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.

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> 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 <
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>> Protecting coral reefs with bubbles
>> 
>> https://earth.stanford.edu/news/protecting-coral-reefs-bubbles
>> 
>> Open-access
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>> Original article:
>> 
>> Bubble stripping as a tool to reduce high dissolved CO2 in coastal marine
>> ecosystems.  Environmental Science & Technology
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>> http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/acs.est.5b04733
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>> not open-access, note author's email address
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