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another scientist whose work on ocean pH levels billions of years ago says his work has "no relevance" to ocean acidification caused by climate change — but was used in the report to bolster those claims
Krissansen-Totton told WIRED in an email that his work on ocean acidity billions of years ago has “no relevance” to the impacts of human-driven ocean acidification today, and that today calcium carbonate saturation is quickly diminishing in the ocean alongside rising acidity. Dissolved calcium carbonate is essential for many marine species, particularly those that rely on it to build their shells. “The much more gradual changes in ocean pH we observe on geologic timescales were typically not accompanied by the rapid changes in carbonate saturation that human CO2 emissions are causing, and so the former are not useful analogs for assessing the impact of ocean acidification on the modern marine biosphere,” he says.
July 30, 2025 at 8:42 PM
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one of the people cited multiple times in the report was @hausfath.bsky.social — who says that the DOE authors pulled a graph from the supplementary materials of one of his studies to make a completely different claim than what his work found:
“They appear to have discarded the whole paper as not fitting their narrative, and instead picked a single figure that was in the supplementary materials to cast doubt on models, when the whole paper actually confirmed how well they have performed in the years after they were published,” he tells WIRED. (Hausfather’s research was also cited in the EPA’s justification for rolling back the endangerment finding—which, he said in a post on X, draws a “completely backwards” conclusion from his work.)
July 30, 2025 at 8:40 PM
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July 21, 2025 at 8:08 AM