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Study: Avoiding Damage from Ocean Acidification May Require Even Deeper Cuts in CO2 Emissions Than for Mitigating Climate Change

Posted on July 04, 2008

The white contour lines illustrate the expected maximum pH decrease of average surface ocean waters in the future (in pH units) as a function of total anthropogenic CO2 emissions (in petagrams of carbon) and release time (in years). Click to enlargeA number of studies have already explored the detrimental impact of increasing levels of atmospheric carbon dioxide on ocean chemistry by causing a drop in pH called ocean acidification . (Earlier post.)Writing in the journal Science, a team of researchers warns that the ecological and economic consequences of ocean acidification are difficul...

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