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OT - new carbon tax 3-Mar-2011 At 3:42:40 PM billk
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On 3/03/2011 ajfclark wrote:
>On 3/03/2011 billk wrote:
>>"The oceans provide an absolutely enormous sink for carbon dioxide. They
>will soak up anything we put into the atmosphere."
>
>Isn't that causing the acidity of the sea to rise?

Such a pity my chemistry teacher was satisfied with making the blanket statement - "This stuff about the Greenhouse Effect is BS!" - instead of looking at the predictions we could come up with using basic Year 12 chemistry. Acidification of the oceans would surely have been one of them.

My chemistry teacher wasn't the only one trying to steer us away from being concerned about the environment. My biology teacher told us that uranium mining was going to be an economic boon for Australia and only wimps worried about nuclear accidents. He also told us that renewable energy was a load of rubbish and more people would die from falling off roofs installing stupid solar water heaters than would ever be killed by nuclear power. This was around about the time of the Three Mile Island accident.

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