Talk:Bermuda Atlantic Time-series Study

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The article says "The data collected by these cruises are available online" but all I've been able to find so far is raw data with no interpretation of its meaning, along with class exercises suggesting you figure out what it means for yourself from the raw data.

After spending all this money on this work, don't the taxpayers who paid for it deserve to know what the researchers found? For example does any of this research answer the question of whether more inorganic carbon (in particular CO2) is entering the ocean today than a few decades ago? Ocean acidification suggests it does, but all we know there is the change in pH. Shouldn't this research have been able to quantify the amount of CO2 needed to change the pH? If so then the article needs to say what was found. If there are no intelligible conclusions from the BATS research then the article should say so. --Vaughan Pratt (talk) 22:45, 7 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]