July 26, 2009 Analysis of Alarmism: Ocean Acidification “Only
the unknown frightens men.” Antoine de St. Exupery Scare Tactics
To Create Fear As public awareness grows that human caused
warming is false, the extent and degree of attempts to scare the
public increases. The scare preference is for remote geographic
areas such as the Arctic or Antarctic or complex obscure topics
ideally with global implications, which the public knows little
about. The latest scare story is ocean acidification, which
combines these traits with the advantage of a word with negative
connotations and used before in acid rain. Like all scares it is
based on total acceptance that an increase in atmospheric CO2 is
a problem. The claim in this case is it is causing temperature
increase, but also changing the chemistry of the oceans. Like
all the scares it is pure speculation after you accept the false
claim CO2 is causing temperature increase. To counteract
suggestions that they are overstating the threat they use a form
of the precaut