{"id":217,"date":"2014-02-14T17:09:45","date_gmt":"2014-02-14T17:09:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/arnoldt\/?p=217"},"modified":"2018-03-21T12:29:40","modified_gmt":"2018-03-21T12:29:40","slug":"a-beach-bums-guide-to-ocean-acidification","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/arnoldt\/2014\/02\/14\/a-beach-bums-guide-to-ocean-acidification\/","title":{"rendered":"A beach bum\u2019s guide to ocean acidification"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/arnoldt\/files\/2012\/10\/th.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-222 size-full\" title=\"th\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/arnoldt\/files\/2012\/10\/th.jpg\" alt=\"A beach bum\u2019s guide to ocean acidification\" width=\"145\" height=\"145\" \/><\/a>Baltimore native Jim Meyer is a stand\u00a0up comedian and freelance writer who wrote this piece about ocean acidification.\u00a0 While it&#8217;s probably\u00a0not going to\u00a0get him invited to testify before\u00a0congress\u00a0he<em> is<\/em>\u00a0reaching people\u00a0that we usually don&#8217;t, which is critically\u00a0important.\u00a0 And he does mention Jimmy Buffett.\u00a0 So, thanks Jim and thanks to Lee Karrh for sending this my way.\u00a0 This is\u00a0our post of the day:<em>&#8230;&#8230;Over the last 200 years, human pollution has caused the oceans\u2019 pH to drop\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.pmel.noaa.gov\/pubs\/PDF\/feel2899\/feel2899.pdf\">100 times faster<\/a>\u00a0than it did in the previous 650,000 years. To give you an idea what the oceans are going through, try to imagine taking in the entire six seasons of\u00a0The Wire\u00a0in 32.4 seconds. You\u2019d have 11 strokes. And that\u2019s just the tip of the iceberg (a clich\u00e9 that will baffle your grandkids).\u00a0 <\/em>Read more: <span style=\"font-size: medium\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;font-size: medium\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;font-size: small\"><a href=\"http:\/\/grist.org\/basics\/bad-acid-trip-a-beach-bums-guide-to-ocean-acidification\/\">http:\/\/grist.org\/basics\/bad-acid-trip-a-beach-bums-guide-to-ocean-acidification\/<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Baltimore native Jim Meyer is a stand\u00a0up comedian and freelance writer who wrote this piece about ocean acidification.\u00a0 While it&#8217;s probably\u00a0not going to\u00a0get him invited to testify before\u00a0congress\u00a0he&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1263,"featured_media":222,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[77300],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-217","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-editors-picks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/arnoldt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/arnoldt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/arnoldt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/arnoldt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1263"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/arnoldt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=217"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/arnoldt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/arnoldt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/222"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/arnoldt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/arnoldt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/arnoldt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}