Have you heard about this yet?
(Time) Researchers from Oregon State University’s Hatfield Marine Science Center say they’ve created and patented a new type of seaweed that has the potential to be sold commercially as the next big superfood.
The reason? It tastes just like bacon, they claim.
The bizarre but tasty creation is actually a new strain of red marine algae called dulse that is packed full of minerals and protein and looks like red lettuce.
So, this is a “superfood”, super duper good for you! And, making it taste like bacon would is simply awesome. Of course, along comes Joe Romm’s George Soros funded Climate Progress
This Seaweed Tastes Like Bacon. It Could Help Clean The Oceans.
By “clean the oceans”, they don’t actually mean really worried about ocean pollution. They mention nutrient runoff, particularly from agriculture, but, that is not their true concern
Besides nutrient runoff, ocean acidification is another environmental pressure that’s expected to alter marine ecosystems in the future. As the ocean begins to absorb more and more of the carbon dioxide that humans are putting into the atmosphere, the pH of the water is expected to decrease, making the world’s oceans more acidic. For organisms like shellfish, that could be a problem, because acidic waters means shellfish have to work harder to produce their shells, leaving them with less energy to fight disease or find food.
But like excess nutrients, Yarish said, seaweed has also shown an ability to thrive in waters with greater concentrations of carbon dioxide.
“Algae are the winners when it comes to ocean acidification,†he said. “They have the ability to extract more CO2 out of the water, and therefore lowering the pH of that water.â€
No matter the subject, Cult Of Climastrology members are always willing to ruin it with their insane ideology.
Algae that’s good for you, tastes like bacon AND cleans the ocean. What’s not to like? Or we could reduce our emissions of pollutants.
The author gets the basic chemistry wrong. Extracting CO2 from the water would raise the pH of that water.
http://www.geni.org/globalenergy/library/technical-articles/generation/climate-change/energy-central/climate-change-german-scientists-use-algae-to-absorb-carbon-dioxide/index.shtml
This has been known for quite some time and in fact one has to now question why the oceans are not pools of acid when its been shown that at times in our recent past….100 million years ago that the PPM of CO2 in the atmosphere was at least 4400 ppm of co2.
The earth has always found a way to keep the planet stable. Buring existing co2 that was once a part of this biosphere is not going to kill the planet….it might alter it somewhat but its not going to kill it….
We cannot create anything new this planet has not seen before….even radioactivity has been here long before we started making radioactive bombs.
our recent past is 100 million years ago? Liam that is a bit of a stretch
Just how old are you?
I think that the scientist’s main problem is associating the food with evil bacon. Immediately setting off negative feelings among the greenies, feelings that drive their minds to react negatively in any way that they can.
If only they had said that it tastes like kale. It would have been a success with the greenies. But nobody else would eat it.
Here’s a press release that discusses ocean pH in broad strokes, covering the past 53 million years.
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/05/090519111031.htm
Recall too that human civilization is only some 10,000 years old, not 100 million, and our entirety of human civilization evolved during a period (the Holocene) of very stable climate and oceans.
There were no humans 100 million years ago or even 53 million years ago. No cities, no crops, no fisheries industry…
Teach,
The author at ClimateProgress did not mention climate change or global warming. She used a few lines out of the entire article to discuss how the algae can extract CO2 from seawater, which would offset some acidification.
Do you not believe that some of the increased CO2 that we’re adding to the atmosphere ends up in the seas?
It is believed that the added co2 that penetrates the oceans ends up causing the formation of co2 digesting organisms in order to maintain balance in the oceans.
Remember there was at least 4400ppm of co2 present in the atmosphere around 53 million years ago.
Today there is 400. So somewhere 4000 ppm of co2 as been eaten, stored or disappeared. Now because matter can be neither created nor destroyed it was a natural progression for science to look to carbon sequestration. This was an event that was brought to prominence by the drilling of core samples used by wire line engineers and Petroleum engineers in the oil and gas industry.
What they were bringing up out of those holes was amazing and it started an entire new field of study.
This is why I keep referring back to coral reefs to get my climate data. The many data sets that have been drilled and catalouged show a rather startling picture of the earth. An Earth that finds amazing ways to compensate for drastic and I do mean drastic shifts in climate…both gradual and accelerated.
So yes co2 is being added to the ocean daily….I showed this simply by the ring of volcanoes who spew co2 and methane into the oceans and have been for at least 85 million years and perhaps as long as we have had oceans.
Let’s be clear. The recent increase in CO2/carbonic acid in the oceans is driven by atmospheric CO2 and not volcanoes.
The idea from the author’s source that their “new” seaweed could remove a significant amount of this is fanciful, and is more marketing than science. That’s why it was mentioned in the article.
Teach was misleading his readers by concentrating on global warming. The article was not about global warming.