Acidification Acceleration: The 300-Million-Year Upward Curve In Oceans
Thursday, March 8, 2012 - 06:20
in Earth & Climate
In the cultural war over climate change, which is mostly about drivers but looks like politics, other aspects of earth science get lost, like that pollution is plain bad. The oceans may be acidifying faster today than they have in the last 300 million years and part of that reason is because the oceans act like a sponge to draw down excess carbon dioxide from the air.'May' is one of those operative words scientists use that often get used colloquially to instill doubt, like how anti-science people on one side deny climate science and those on the other deny biological science. read more