Water, water everywhere and not a drop of acid!

Watch the oceans acidify in real time http://t.co/j5SVS4nX0t pic.twitter.com/GoasjZ4eOg
— grist (@grist) February 18, 2015

@grist Um, that's a map of ocean salinity.
— Kees van der Leun (@Sustainable2050) February 18, 2015

You do know. Red on that graph. Salinity. Means MORE alkaline!? @CleanOEnergy @grist @ruth_dixon
— Barry Woods (@BarryJWoods) February 18, 2015

misleading graph is very misleading, the red is area of highest alkalinity, the itty bitty blue is lower. @CleanOEnergy @BarryJWoods @grist
— Ima Debatin' (@ImaBannedd) February 19, 2015

It's pretty interesting that that '5 years of increasing ocean acidity' is 5 years of increased salinity. @CleanOEnergy @BarryJWoods @grist
— Ima Debatin' (@ImaBannedd) February 19, 2015

Update 1, 2 and 3:

No, @CleanOEnergy that map does not show acidity as red. @RozPidcock gets it right: see http://t.co/FSEYCrXadJ @BarryJWoods
— Ruth Dixon (@ruth_dixon) February 19, 2015

@BarryJWoods @CleanOEnergy its all alkaline, water water everywhere and not a drop of acid

— Badgerbod (@badgerbod) February 19, 2015

@ImaBannedd @badgerbod @BarryJWoods Did you LOOK at the map?? Dude, SOMEONE dropped acid at SOME point in the design of that color scheme.

— Climate Nuremberg (@BradPKeyes) February 19, 2015

Whatever is this "Ocean Acidification" (And why does my spell check fail on "acidification")?

Covering about 71% of the planet's surface, the world's oceans play a fundamental role in shaping climate zones we see on land. This is a good reason to measure various parameters of the different oceans and determine where these parameters were in the past and where they will be in the future.

Of the numerous risible calamities to be associated with the climate change science, "Ocean Acidification" must be one of the poorest studied and wildly narrated of climate change science topics.

As you can see, the IPCC WGI AR5 has rolled out the High Certainty Welcome Wagon concerning this topic.  With such a high degree of certainty, one would think that there would be a large amount of observational data to accompany such a judgement. Think again.

From Richard Telford's blog is a comment by Latimer Alder that is quite an eye opener:

There are only these three (BATS, HOTS and ESTOC) long term datasets, and only Bermuda (BATS) goes back to 1983.  An IPCC observational Working Group I reports, with High Certainty the sum of all data:

Verified with this concluding Discussion remark in Hofmann et.al. (2011):

In summary, together, these pH time series create a compelling argument for the collection of more continuous data of this kind. Specifically, these data represent a critical step in understanding the consequences of ocean change: the linkage of present-day pH exposures to organismal tolerance and how this translates into ecological change in marine ecosystems [27],[81]. Long-term datasets exist, but many are in open-ocean locations (HOTS, BATS, ESTOC) and do not capture environmental variation in the coastal marine habitats that are of such critical ecological and economic value [20]. Additionally, they often do not capture changes in pH at physiologically relevant timescales since they are limited by ship-board sampling frequencies. 

Obviously, all the other datasets are modeled somewhere else.

Special thanks to Latimer Alder for pointing this comment out.

Update:

This morning's piece: RT @dailymaverick Are the oceans really dying? http://t.co/DfX6izl89E (tl;dr: no)
— Ivo Vegter (@IvoVegter) February 17, 2015

Update 2:

The totally unscientific ocean acidification fraud lives on http://t.co/oVTsGmSaHO
— Tom Nelson (@tan123) February 17, 2015