{"id":583,"date":"2014-02-12T17:37:38","date_gmt":"2014-02-12T17:37:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/arnoldt\/?p=583"},"modified":"2014-02-26T15:21:32","modified_gmt":"2014-02-26T15:21:32","slug":"the-real-hot-tub-time-machine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/arnoldt\/2014\/02\/12\/the-real-hot-tub-time-machine\/","title":{"rendered":"The Real &#8220;Hot Tub Time Machine&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/arnoldt\/files\/2014\/02\/castle.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-584\" alt=\"castle\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/arnoldt\/files\/2014\/02\/castle.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/arnoldt\/files\/2014\/02\/castle.jpg 600w, https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/arnoldt\/files\/2014\/02\/castle-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a>Blog readers will already know about the hydrothermal vents along the Italian coastline, some of which vent pure carbon dioxide into the sea at normal temperatures.\u00a0 In conjunction with our coworkers we&#8217;ve examined these vents as potential &#8216;living laboratories&#8217; which give us a glimpse of marine life in future high carbon dioxide \/ low pH oceans.\u00a0 This photgraph, by Jimmy Harris (see link below), shows the Castello Aragonese near Naples, Italy.\u00a0 Yes, the Italian translates to the &#8216;Aragonate Castle&#8217;.\u00a0 It&#8217;s carved into the calcium carbonate rock of the island.\u00a0 Want to see more?\u00a0 Well our colleague, Jason Hall Spencer, has some great YouTube videos of the site, above and below the waterline.\u00a0 Well, we thought the title of a recent blog post article, &#8220;Hot Tub Time Machine&#8221; by Elizabeth Kolbert, was clever.\u00a0 Here&#8217;s the link: Off the coast of Italy, CO2-spewing vents are giving scientists a glimpse at the acidic oceans of our future. The results are frightening.by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.onearth.org\/author\/elizabeth-kolbert\">Elizabeth Kolbert<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/ElizKolbert\" target=\"_blank\">@ElizKolbert<\/a>\u00a0\u2022\u00a0February 11, 2014\u00a0 <i>This article is adapted from the author\u2019s new book, <\/i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/The-Sixth-Extinction-Unnatural-History\/dp\/0805092994\" target=\"_blank\">The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History<\/a><i>, on sale today.\u00a0 <\/i>http:\/\/www.onearth.org\/articles\/2014\/02\/elizabeth-kolberts-scary-swim-in-the-acidic-oceans-of-tomorrow.\u00a0 We haven&#8217;t read the book yet.\u00a0 Have you?\u00a0 If so, what did you think?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Blog readers will already know about the hydrothermal vents along the Italian coastline, some of which vent pure carbon dioxide into the sea at normal temperatures.\u00a0 In conjunction&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1263,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-583","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/arnoldt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/583","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=583"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/arnoldt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/583\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/arnoldt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/arnoldt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/arnoldt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}