Ocean Acidification Should Be More Worrying Than Atmospheric Climate Change (Resolves to Probability)
Ocean Acidification Should Be More Worrying Than Atmospheric Climate Change (Resolves to Probability)
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Of course climate change gets the majority of attention in popular press and Ocean Acidification is highly related to Climate Change due to carbon emissions. This is an attempt to have a clear parametric ratio view of how worrying Ocean Acidification is compared to Atmospheric Climate Change.

While it may be difficult to purely disentangle the two phenomena from one another as the Ocean does appear to be a sink for atmospheric carbon, this bet represents a ratio of how worried we should all be about Ocean Acidification, which does not get much popular press coverage, vs. Atmosphereic Climate Change, which gets tons of press coverage.

So for example, if we're at 50%, we should be equally worried about the two. If we're at 80%, we should be much more worried about Ocean Acidification (for whatever reasons are presented in the discussion).

Resolves to probability.

I will resolve sooner than the end of the Century if one or the other phenomena clearly cataclysmically already occured.

Close date updated to 2099-12-31 11:59 pm

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