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arxiv: 2605.12311 · v1 · submitted 2026-05-12 · ⚛️ physics.ao-ph

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Acidification of Water by CO2

M. Cornell, P. Ridd, W. A. van Wijngaarden, W. Happer

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keywords ocean acidificationcarbonate chemistrypH bufferingseawater alkalinityatmospheric CO2Revelle factordiurnal pH variation
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The pith

Increasing atmospheric CO2 causes only minor pH drops in natural waters because alkalinity and dissolved carbon dioxide strongly buffer the system.

A machine-rendered reading of the paper's core claim, the machinery that carries it, and where it could break.

The paper uses basic carbonate equilibrium chemistry to demonstrate that natural waters resist pH changes from added CO2. Doubling atmospheric CO2 from 430 to 860 ppm lowers representative seawater pH at 25 C from 8.18 to 7.93. This 0.25-unit shift matches the size of daily pH swings caused by photosynthesis and respiration in surface waters and is smaller than pH differences already present across latitudes, depths, and longitudes. The authors conclude the change will not harm aquatic organisms and may increase available dissolved inorganic carbon. The review also covers the Revelle factor, calcium carbonate movement in groundwater, limewater tests, and the thermodynamic relations that govern these equilibria.

Core claim

Fundamental inorganic chemistry shows that increasing concentrations of atmospheric CO2 will have no harmful effect on organisms that live in the natural waters of the Earth and may well benefit them, since alkalinity and dissolved CO2 give high buffering capacity to most natural waters and minimize the change of pH from external influences; doubling atmospheric CO2 from 430 ppm to 860 ppm reduces the pH of representative seawater at 25 C from 8.18 to 7.93.

What carries the argument

The buffering capacity provided by the coupled equilibria among dissolved CO2, bicarbonate ions, carbonate ions, and total alkalinity, which limits pH response to added atmospheric CO2.

If this is right

  • Doubling atmospheric CO2 produces only a 0.25-unit pH drop in typical seawater at 25 C.
  • The predicted pH change equals or is smaller than natural diurnal swings from photosynthesis and respiration.
  • pH already varies more across ocean latitudes, longitudes, and depths than the change from doubled CO2.
  • Increased dissolved inorganic carbon from higher CO2 may benefit rather than harm aquatic organisms.
  • The same buffering chemistry applies to freshwater systems and groundwater calcium carbonate transport.

Where Pith is reading between the lines

These are editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

  • If the buffering calculation holds, then concerns focused solely on average pH decline from atmospheric CO2 may overlook larger local drivers of pH variability.
  • The small predicted change suggests that any observed biological responses in the field are more likely tied to temperature, nutrients, or pollution than to the CO2-driven pH shift itself.
  • Similar equilibrium reasoning could be applied to predict pH stability in lakes or rivers under rising CO2 without needing new models.

Load-bearing premise

That a fixed representative seawater composition, constant temperature, and unchanging alkalinity accurately describe the conditions experienced by living organisms without major interference from local biological activity or other unmodeled processes.

What would settle it

Direct measurements showing that real open-ocean pH falls by substantially more than 0.25 units as atmospheric CO2 approaches 860 ppm, or controlled experiments demonstrating clear harm to representative marine organisms from exactly that 0.25-unit pH shift under otherwise natural conditions.

Figures

Figures reproduced from arXiv: 2605.12311 by M. Cornell, P. Ridd, W. A. van Wijngaarden, W. Happer.

Figure 1
Figure 1. Figure 1: The curved lines are pH values, pH(P), of seawater (blue) and rainwater (red) in equilibrium with atmospheric partial pressure P of CO2. In the year 2025, the pressure was Pc = 430 µb. The doubled value is Pd = 860 µb. The representative seawater has a salinity S = 35‰, an alkalinity [A] = 2.4 mM and a boron molality [B] = 0.43 mM. Rainwater contains only dissolved CO2. pH values are given for temperatures… view at source ↗
Figure 2
Figure 2. Figure 2: Time dependence of the pH of ocean surface waters from reference [3]. The very [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p005_2.png] view at source ↗
Figure 3
Figure 3. Figure 3: The pH of the North Pacific Ocean [5] along the longitude 152 [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p006_3.png] view at source ↗
Figure 4
Figure 4. Figure 4: Surface akalinity, [A], of the world oceans[13]. The alkalinity is very nearly pro [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p008_4.png] view at source ↗
Figure 5
Figure 5. Figure 5: The fractions f(CO∗ 2 ), f(HCO− 3 ) and f(CO2− 3 ) of uncharged, bicarbonate and carbonate forms of dissolved CO2, given by (45), (46) and (47), versus the pH for seawater (top), with salinity S = 35‰, and freshwater (bottom) with S = 0‰. The temperature is T = 25 C and the total pressure is p = 1 bar. At pH1 of (48), the molalities of uncharged species and bicarbonate ions are equal. At pH2 of (49) the mo… view at source ↗
Figure 6
Figure 6. Figure 6: Seawater with a temperature of T = 25 C, and with the same total alkalinity [A] = 2.4 mM and dissolved boron [B] = 0.43 mM as [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p020_6.png] view at source ↗
Figure 7
Figure 7. Figure 7: The pH of hypothetical seawater with a temperature of [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p021_7.png] view at source ↗
Figure 8
Figure 8. Figure 8: The total alkalinity [A]=[TALK] of (52) is often determined by titration with [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p023_8.png] view at source ↗
Figure 9
Figure 9. Figure 9: Saturation state (66) of surface ocean water with respect to calcite crystals, [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p024_9.png] view at source ↗
Figure 10
Figure 10. Figure 10: Saturation states for calcite, Ω = [Ca2+][CO2− 3 ]/Ksp and brucite, Ω = [Mg][OH− ] 2/Ksb, versus the partial pressure P of CO2 of air in equilibrium with surface seawater at a temperature T = 25 C, with alkalinity [A] = 2.4 mM and dissolved inorganic boron [B] = 0.43 mM. According to [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p025_10.png] view at source ↗
Figure 11
Figure 11. Figure 11: Titration of model seawater at a temperature [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p026_11.png] view at source ↗
Figure 12
Figure 12. Figure 12: The molalities [CO∗ 2 ], [HCO− 3 ] and [CO2− 3 ] of dissolved CO2, and their sum [DIC] are plotted versus the partial pressure P of atmospheric CO2 which is in equilibrium with freshwater at a temperature T = 25 C. Also shown are the hydrogen-ion and hydroxyl￾ion molalities, [H+] and [OH− ]. For P < P1 = 1.24 × 10−5 bar, more than half of the dissolved inorganic carbon, DIC, is bicarbonate ions HCO− 3 . F… view at source ↗
Figure 13
Figure 13. Figure 13: The molalities [CO∗ 2 ], [HCO− 3 ] and [CO2− 3 ] of dissolved CO2, and their sum [DIC] are plotted versus the partial pressure P of atmospheric CO2 which is in equilibrium with seawater at a temperature T = 25 C. Also shown are the hydrogen-ion and hydroxyl-ion molalities, [H+] and [OH− ], and the borate molality [B(OH)− 3 ]=[BALK]. The total alkalinity of the water is [A] = 2.4 mM and the boron molality … view at source ↗
Figure 14
Figure 14. Figure 14: The inverse Revelle factor 1/R of (83) is the slope of the tangent line to a log￾log plot of the dissolved inorganic carbon [DIC] versus the CO2 partial pressure P. For this example of seawater at a temperature of 25 C, the Revelle factors at the contemporary partial pressure Pc = 430 µb , and double that value, Pd = 860 µb, are Rc = 9.3 and Rd = 12.1. Comparing (77) and (79) we see that in the limit of l… view at source ↗
Figure 15
Figure 15. Figure 15: The Revelle factor R of (83) measures how hard it is for atmospheric CO2 to dissolve in water. Alkaline water sucks in the weak acid CO2. But more dissolved CO2 makes the water less alkaline and less able retain CO2. by 1 R = ∂ ln[DIC] ∂ ln P = ∂ log[DIC] ∂ log P . (83) In other words, the inverse Revelle factor R defined by (83) is the slope of the tangent line to a log-log plot of the dissolved inorgani… view at source ↗
Figure 16
Figure 16. Figure 16: The Ostwald Solubilities L of (84) for seawater (blue) and freshwater (red) for a total pressure p = 1 bar and for temperatures T = 15 C and T = 25 C. The solubilities are ratios of the equilibrium number density of inorganic carbon atoms in water {DIC}, to the number density {CO2}g in the atmosphere above. The partial pressure of CO2 is P, the contemporary value is Pc = 430 µb and the doubled value is Pd… view at source ↗
Figure 17
Figure 17. Figure 17: Flowstone formations in Carlsbad Caverns, New Mexico [48]. Such deposits are [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p035_17.png] view at source ↗
Figure 18
Figure 18. Figure 18: Saturated solutions of groundwater, at the temperature [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p037_18.png] view at source ↗
Figure 19
Figure 19. Figure 19: A magnified part of Fig. 18, with a linear vertical scale. This shows how [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p040_19.png] view at source ↗
Figure 20
Figure 20. Figure 20: A well known experiment from reference [50] is to bubble human exhaled breath, [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p043_20.png] view at source ↗
Figure 21
Figure 21. Figure 21: A quantitative interpretation of Fig. 20. Limewater at a temperature, [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p044_21.png] view at source ↗
Figure 22
Figure 22. Figure 22: Texas Spring Water [52] is carbonated at the bottling plant and is slightly acidic, [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p047_22.png] view at source ↗
Figure 23
Figure 23. Figure 23: For the ranges of temperature T, pressure p and salinity S encountered in natural waters, the solubility product constant Ksp for calcite depends very weakly on increasing temperature T in seawater and weakly on increasing temperature in freshwater. Ksp increases strongly with increasing pressure p and very strongly with increasing salinity S. from [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p054_23.png] view at source ↗
read the original abstract

Fundamental inorganic chemistry shows that increasing concentrations of atmospheric CO2 will have no harmful effect on organisms that live in the natural waters of the Earths, and may well benefit them. Alkalinity and dissolved CO2 give high buffering capacity to most natural waters and minimize the change of pH from external influences. For example, doubling the atmospheric concentration of CO2 from 430 ppm to 860 ppm would reduce the pH of representative sea water at a temperature of 25 C from pH = 8.18 to pH = 7.93. This change is comparable to diurnal pH changes in biologically productive surface waters, due to photosynthetic fixation of dissolved inorganic carbon during the day and respiration at night. The change is also less than the variations of pH with latitude, longitude and depth in the oceans. This paper includes a quantitative review of the carbonate chemistry of seawater and freshwater, the buffering capacity, the Revelle factor, the transport of calcium carbonate in ground water, the formation of flowstone, and the classic use of limewater to detect gaseous CO2. The paper concludes with a brief review of those parts of chemical thermodynamics that are involved in ocean acidification.

Editorial analysis

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Referee Report

2 major / 3 minor

Summary. The manuscript claims that fundamental inorganic chemistry demonstrates increasing atmospheric CO2 will have no harmful effect on organisms in natural waters and may benefit them, owing to the high buffering capacity provided by alkalinity and dissolved CO2. It calculates that doubling CO2 from 430 ppm to 860 ppm lowers representative seawater pH at 25°C from 8.18 to 7.93, a shift comparable to diurnal biological variations and smaller than spatial/depth variations in the oceans. The paper provides a quantitative review of seawater and freshwater carbonate chemistry, buffering capacity, the Revelle factor, CaCO3 transport in groundwater, flowstone formation, limewater detection of CO2, and relevant chemical thermodynamics.

Significance. If the pH calculations are accurate and the fixed-parameter assumptions hold under realistic conditions, the work could usefully highlight natural buffering and variability in the carbonate system, providing a counterpoint to some ocean-acidification impact narratives. The review of standard equilibrium concepts and the Revelle factor is a strength, but the organism-level conclusion depends on untested extrapolation from constant-alkalinity, fixed-temperature conditions.

major comments (2)
  1. [Abstract and quantitative review of carbonate chemistry of seawater] The central claim that the 0.25-unit pH drop implies no harm (and possible benefit) to organisms rests on the representative seawater model with fixed total alkalinity, fixed DIC speciation, and constant 25°C temperature with no biological modulation. The manuscript does not provide sensitivity tests showing the modeled pH shift remains within tolerance when alkalinity varies by ±20% or when diurnal biological DIC/alkalinity cycles are superimposed on the anthropogenic baseline.
  2. [Abstract and section on buffering capacity and Revelle factor] The specific pH values 8.18 and 7.93 (and the doubling calculation) are stated without explicit derivation, source equilibrium constants, or error analysis in the provided text. This makes it impossible to verify whether post-hoc choices of representative conditions affect the central numbers, as required for the no-harm conclusion.
minor comments (3)
  1. [Abstract] The abstract contains the typographical error 'Earths' (should be 'Earth's').
  2. [Quantitative review sections] Define the exact numerical values of total alkalinity, salinity, and initial DIC used for the 'representative sea water' example, and state the equilibrium constants and temperature dependence explicitly.
  3. [Section on the Revelle factor] Clarify whether the Revelle factor discussion includes any new calculation or is purely a review of the standard definition.

Simulated Author's Rebuttal

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We thank the referee for their constructive and detailed comments, which help clarify the presentation of our quantitative review of carbonate chemistry. We address each major comment below and will revise the manuscript to enhance transparency and robustness while preserving the core focus on inorganic equilibrium calculations.

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  1. Referee: The central claim that the 0.25-unit pH drop implies no harm (and possible benefit) to organisms rests on the representative seawater model with fixed total alkalinity, fixed DIC speciation, and constant 25°C temperature with no biological modulation. The manuscript does not provide sensitivity tests showing the modeled pH shift remains within tolerance when alkalinity varies by ±20% or when diurnal biological DIC/alkalinity cycles are superimposed on the anthropogenic baseline.

    Authors: We agree that explicit sensitivity tests would strengthen the robustness of the representative-case illustration. The manuscript already notes that the calculated pH shift is comparable to natural diurnal biological cycles and spatial/depth variations, which implicitly encompass alkalinity differences and biological modulation. To directly respond, we will add a new subsection with sensitivity calculations: pH changes for total alkalinity varied by ±20% around the representative value, and scenarios superimposing typical diurnal DIC/alkalinity swings on the doubled-CO2 baseline. These will confirm the anthropogenic shift remains small relative to natural ranges under varied conditions. revision: yes

  2. Referee: The specific pH values 8.18 and 7.93 (and the doubling calculation) are stated without explicit derivation, source equilibrium constants, or error analysis in the provided text. This makes it impossible to verify whether post-hoc choices of representative conditions affect the central numbers, as required for the no-harm conclusion.

    Authors: We acknowledge that the initial submission did not include sufficient step-by-step derivation or sourcing. The values derive from standard seawater carbonate equilibria (using constants such as those compiled by Millero et al. for 25°C, salinity 35, and representative alkalinity ~2300 μmol/kg with appropriate DIC). In the revised manuscript we will insert an explicit derivation section with the full set of equilibrium equations, the precise constants and their literature sources, the input parameters chosen for the representative case, and a short error/sensitivity analysis showing how pH responds to small variations in constants or inputs. revision: yes

Circularity Check

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No circularity; derivation uses independent equilibrium constants

full rationale

The paper derives pH shifts from CO2 doubling by applying standard, externally tabulated equilibrium constants for the carbonate system (K1, K2, Kw) together with the Revelle factor and fixed representative alkalinity at 25 C. These inputs are not fitted or redefined within the manuscript, nor do any equations reduce the reported pH drop (8.18 to 7.93) to a quantity constructed from the paper's own outputs. No self-citations appear in the load-bearing steps, and the quantitative review of buffering, CaCO3 transport, and thermodynamics rests on classical results rather than renaming or smuggling prior author-specific ansatzes. The central claim therefore remains self-contained against external benchmarks.

Axiom & Free-Parameter Ledger

0 free parameters · 2 axioms · 0 invented entities

The central claim rests on standard inorganic chemistry without introducing new free parameters or entities; the representative seawater values are drawn from conventional reference compositions rather than fitted here.

axioms (2)
  • domain assumption Equilibrium constants for the carbonate system in water apply under natural conditions
    Invoked for all pH calculations from CO2 dissolution
  • domain assumption Natural waters maintain sufficient alkalinity to provide effective buffering
    Central premise that minimizes pH change from external CO2

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