>warmer temperatures have been found to DRIVE CO2 levels , not the other way around!
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>Exactly.
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>I had to laugh at the latest scare tactic they are trying to pedal, that the oceans are becoming acidic, and are effecting shell fish growth.
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>The oceans are alkaline, you can check it yourself with a simple litmus paper test.
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>It should be noted that in areas of low tidal flushing and high shell fish growth a drop in the alkalinity can happen due to the simple fact that shellfish metabilize the calcium out of the water.
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>The factor that brings everything into perspective is the fact that CO2 comprises 0.038% of the atmosphere, whereas water can be as high as 4% at sealevel.
>Just check the specific heats of water (4.2Kj/Kg) and that of CO2 (0.9Kj/Kg) and you will start to see that CO2 would have the job ahead of it to cause a forcing, then when you take the latent heat of vaporization of water (2260Kj/Kg) and the latent heat of fusion of water (334Kj/Kg) into account, CO2 isn't in the race.

I seem to remember from school science that acidity is measured on a scale. (PH from 1 to 14?) It is not a binary state, one or the other. So even if oceans are alkaline, if they are becoming less so then that may be significant.