ApocaDocs: Ocean acidification emerges as new climate threat

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Posted Mon Oct 1 2012: from Wall Street Journal:


	Ocean acidification emerges as new climate threat http://apocadocs.com/s.pl?1349109341 ...In the past five years, the fact that human-generated carbon emissions are making the ocean more acidic has become an urgent cause of concern to the fishing industry and scientists. The ocean absorbs about 30 percent of the carbon dioxide we put in the air through fossil fuel burning, and this triggers a chemical reaction that produces hydrogen, thereby lowering the water's pH. The sea today is 30 percent more acidic than pre-industrial levels, which is creating corrosive water that is washing over America's coasts. At the current rate of global worldwide carbon emissions, the ocean's acidity could double by 2100.

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