Acid Test the Movie: Burning It Up

One week ago today, Sigourney Weaver and Frances Beinecke went to Washington to show the ground-breaking movie, Acid Test: The Global Challenge Of Ocean Acidification. It's a great short film, well worth watching, with really incredibly scary conclusions about what will happen to the ocean, not in the distant future but in the next few decades.

Now, let's be honest -- ocean acidification? Really? Even with Sigourney Weaver's voice, not the sexiest topic on the planet.

But a funny thing has happened this past week, and I think it's a great credit not just to NRDC and the creators of this film, but to everyone who has been working so hard to raise the profile of the environmental problems we are facing.

The film, and its message, have been getting a lot of attention. Great, positive attention.

In Maine, lobstermen and commercial mussel growers are facing the facts of what greater acidification would do to their worlds.

In New Jersey, thanks to the leadership of Senator Lautenberg, everyone is realizing what is going to actually happen to that famous Jersey Shore.

But the best media hit of the week goes to Sigourney Weaver, who was a hero on Fox News - teaching a lesson to all Democrats and progressives about how to stand the hell up.

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Comments

[guinganbresil]

The least alkali waters (some would erroneously call most acidic) are upwelling from the deep ocean thermohaline currents. They have not seen the atmosphere in 800 - 1000 years. It is NOT anthopogenic CO2...

[Angie Cordeiro - Huffpost Blogger]

"Live simply so others may simply live."

[darkmark]

Sigourney Weaver's voice is intelligent, elegant, professional, but not silly, hyperbolic, wandering, banal,
boring. just what did you want and who did you want. she is the first three you can have the rest. just the person for the subject matter.

[SFTor]

The oceans have supposedly become 0.2 pH less acidic. That is less than the natural variability in the open ocean, which will often vary between 7.9 to 8.3. Purified water in the lab has been known to vary by that much.

Along the coasts all bets are off, as different types of human activity can send the results off in any direction you choose. Algae growth will also radically alter pH, as fumes is alluding to.

But by all means, let's all freak out together. It's all in good fun anyway.

[fumes]

uh..

algae blooms have us covered!

remember folks before there was any O2 for us to breathe?

of course you don't..