Acid Ocean killing Billions of Shellfish - Red Alert!

Dear President Barack Obama
Thank you for your June 2nd letter.
One billion dead seed oysters from acid ocean waters are a huge Red Alert.*
In 1980 I assembled a bibliography of the “Economic Viability of the Marine Resources” for Puget Sound. Seed oysters were a huge contributor to the potential of hundreds of millions of dollars in 1970 dollars is a reality now. * Clip of front page article in Seattle Times follows.
The Japanese in the 1970s were buying wild seed oysters from Washington to grow on rafts producing 15,000 pounds of protein per surface acre.
Carbon dioxide absorption capacity of the North Pacific has hit a “tipping point”. Now acidic ocean waters are being pulled from deep waters onto Washington and Oregon shore waters where for the past four years seed oysters are no longer able to grow. The same problem can dissolve the shells of a primary food source of Pacific Northwest Salmon. Chinook salmon are already listed as an Endangered Species. Farm raise salmon hurts my liver. The signs are dire. One billion dead seed oysters (the canaries in the ocean) have delivered a very dire warning!
The Corpracrats (democratic and republican) representing vested interests of their corporate contributors are standing in the way of taking the actions that will be needed to solve the problem of the oceans becoming acidic. In the mean time the oceans have less than forty years before they are dead maybe even sooner for major parts of it. No coal is ‘clean’. So called plans for making coal clean burning are decades away thanks to Congressional Corpracrats rewarding major contributors with free Cap and Trade vouchers, delayed compliance dates, etc.
My life’s focus has been on finding solutions to the major challenges we are facing today. Married to a relative of Mahatma Gandhi I researched and wrote how specifically to apply the principles of M.K. Gandhi. I strategized with world leaders on global survival at Oxford, etc.
From your actions and appointments it is apparent that there are gaps in your education and among your advisors on how specifically to solve the many difficult and different challenges that are linked together and need to be solved at the same time.
Not since the 1980 Global 2000 Report to President Carter in three volumes has anyone addressed multiple problems and their relationship. It was the first and only report by any national government on the economic, demographic, resource, and environmental future of the world. It sold over 1.5 million copies in eight languages. I bought a copy and read it. The Japanese had it translated and formed a commission to study how to avert the problems for our common future that the report revealed. Ask President Carter about it. Please read it or delegate an update of the thirty year old report. Comparing the two could provide justification to make major changes.
There is a way to solve the ‘energy crisis’ along with all of the linked challenges but you dismissed the internet writers’ third most asked question of you without thought or investigation. (Contrary to your statement that you didn’t like to comment on issues that you had not studied.) I have been assembling an economic briefing packet for your consideration of a solution that could solve several problems and bring in huge amounts of money (several trillion in 10 years). Over 500 economists agree with me, some from Harvard. It is comprehensive and referenced.
Do you want to know what would solve the challenges of: 1) Global Warming: 2) Agra-biz contributing to huge increases in medical costs; logging of the last 3% of old growth forests for toilet paper; reduce crime and the cost of prisons; and produce jobs for millions of people?
I await your reply and request for the briefing packet on how specifically to solve a number of critically linked challenges. Would you like it digital, via mail or both? Is there a general systems policy staff member to address it too specifically?

Speaking and working for Our Seventh Generation,
Theresa Marie K. Gandhi

Clip from Seattle Times June 14, 2009 front page.
Oysters in deep trouble: Is Pacific Ocean's chemistry killing sea life?
By Craig Welch Seattle Times environment reporter WILLAPA BAY, Pacific County —
The collapse began rather unspectacularly. In 2005, when most of the millions of Pacific oysters in this estuary failed to reproduce, Washington's shellfish growers largely shrugged it off.
In a region that provides one-sixth of the nation's oysters — the epicenter of the West Coast's $111 million oyster industry — everyone knows nature can be fickle. But then the failure was repeated in 2006, 2007 and 2008. It spread to an Oregon hatchery that supplies baby oysters to shellfish nurseries from Puget Sound to Los Angeles. Eighty percent of that hatchery's oyster larvae died, too.
Now, as the oyster industry heads into the fifth summer of its most unnerving crisis in decades, scientists are pondering a disturbing theory. They suspect water that rises from deep in the Pacific Ocean — icy seawater that surges into Willapa Bay and gets pumped into seaside hatcheries — may be corrosive enough to kill baby oysters. If true, that could mean shifts in ocean chemistry associated with carbon-dioxide emissions from fossil fuels may be impairing sea life faster and more dramatically than expected.
And it would vault a key Washington industry to the center of international debate over how to respond to marine changes expected to ripple through and undermine ocean food webs.
Scientists noticed the water's pH — the scale measuring acidity and alkalinity — sometimes dropped below normal, becoming more acidic. Seawater typically is slightly alkaline, but when oceans absorb carbon dioxide from the atmosphere — as they have by the hundreds of billions of tons since the Industrial Revolution — they become more corrosive.
Climate modelers predicted greenhouse gases would make marine waters more acidic by century's end. They expected to notice it first in deep water, some of which hasn't circulated to the surface in 1,500 years and has therefore accumulated more atmospheric carbon dioxide. And deep waters already run higher in carbon dioxide because dying plants, animals and fish sink and decay.
Ripple effects for fish
But two years ago, oceanographers Richard Feely and Chris Sabine, both with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory in Seattle, found more acidified waters already reaching the surface.
The north winds that blow off Washington's coast push marine surface waters off shore. Those waters are replaced by the icy-cold, more corrosive seawater welling up from hundreds of meters below. In a sense, that's exactly what scientists expected — just not so soon.
Corrosive waters can dissolve clam shells, eat away at corals and kill fish eggs. Already, scientists have taken pteropods, tiny marine snails that swim in the open ocean, from the Gulf of Alaska and exposed them to slightly acidified marine water in a laboratory. Their protective shells immediately dissolved.
Those creatures make up 60 percent of the food for Alaska's juvenile pink salmon. Similar creatures support many of the major fish species in Alaska's North Pacific, which in turn supports the billion-dollar Seattle-based industry that provides half the nation's catch of fish.
"The fish we depend on — salmon and pollock and herring — when they're in the first year of their life, they all depend on shellfish for survival," Feely said. "Early models suggest a 10 percent loss in pteropods can cause a 20 percent loss in weight of a fish."
Just last month, Smithsonian scientists published a paper suggesting that in the next century more acidified oceans will threaten the world's shellfish. Oyster larvae, they pointed out, are particularly susceptible. Their early shells are made from an easily eroded form of calcium carbonate.
Researchers believe that might be part of what's already happening on the Northwest coast. If oyster larvae are swimming in marine waters — whether pumped from the sea into a hatchery or in the bay — as deep, acidified water is pushed toward shore, "that could be a problem," said Simone Alin, a NOAA scientist who works with Sabine and Feely.
"Growers are scrounging"
Pacific oysters aren't native to Willapa Bay, but shellfish growers have farmed them here since the 1920s. It's about the only place left on the West Coast where growers look to the wild to get their oysters.
Normally, oysters spawn in the water, producing larvae that swim and eventually attach to a hard surface — typically other oyster shells. This creates oyster seed, called a "set." These succulent mollusks are then moved by hand throughout the bay and take two to five years to fatten up.
But somewhere between the larval stage and settling on a shell, these embryonic oysters are dying. And since only a few young have survived since 2005, "we're running out of oysters in the bay," said Bill Dewey, spokesman for Taylor Shellfish Farms. "Growers are scrounging for whatever they can find."
Standing ankle-deep in sea-water on a south Willapa sandbar last week, Sheldon, owner of Northern Oyster Co., watched his workers gather shellfish at low tide from one of the few places that still had some: a state "oyster reserve," a sort of shellfish bank growers can lease and draw upon to subsidize their own crops.

Craig Welch: 206-464-2093 or cwelch@seattletimes.com
Copyright © 2009 The Seattle Times Company

Global Warming from HAARP not Addressed Mr. President

President Barack Obama:
Thank you for your June 2nd letter in response to my communicating to you my concerns about Global Warming. The form letter signed by you most likely by one of those signature machines I saw at the Religious Broadcasters Convention is appreciated.
You did not respond to a very important issue that I raised, i.e. HAARP.
In Gakona, Alaska, HAARP using 3.6 million watts of electricity is sending focused beams to the ionosphere to heat and bow it for over the horizon targeting for a number of uses. When the USA, Russia and other countries use these technologies it puts a huge amount of energy into our weather system. Common sense says this has contributed to Extreme Severe Weather Events. Extreme Arctic Ice Melt is happening and again common sense would say there is a link to heating the Artic sky.
For more than just common sense Dr. Nick Begich, Senator Begich’s brother, has written extensively with footnotes and patents of the technology used by the HAARP system. Also noted in one of Nick’s book is a quote from the Air Force calling for the ability to control the weather as a “Force Multiplier”. Ask Dr. Nick Begich or read any of his books from www.earthpulse.com.
As Commander-in-Chief I can understand your belief in the need for such a system but HEATING THE IONOSPHERE CONTRIBUTES TO GLOBAL WARMING and is not smart. Always unintended consequences happen as with HAARP and Global Warming.
Major Ed Dames, former trainer for the military, teaches remote viewing. He and his team have tasked and “seen” the atmosphere with “Swiss cheese” rips from pole to pole. Could HAARP have done this?
Dumping millions of tons of chemicals high in the sky has not solved the root problem of Global Warming. Unless the chem-trails are also a part of HAARP. Instead the barium, aluminum and ? chemicals are changing the pH of food crop soils and the oceans world wide. I have witnessed since 1998 the chemical-trails being laid down in grid patterns in four states and then spreading out and clouding the sky. I know it is very wide spread. Ask Major Ed Dames. His oath of secrecy prevented him from saying more but “no comment” often speaks volumes.
Could you please call together the other Nations that are using the HAARP technology and get everyone to agree to STOP HEATING THE SKY?
If not could you please explain why?

Speaking and working for Our Seventh Generation,
Theresa Marie K. Gandhi
tm@tmgandhi.com