"Ocean Growing More Acidic Faster Than Once Thought; Increasing Acidity
Threatens Sea Life", Science Daily, Nov. 26, 2008:
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/09/080903134309.htm
“The new study is based on 24,519 measurements of ocean pH spanning
eight years,
which represents the first detailed dataset on variations of coastal
pH at a
temperate latitude—where the world's most productive fisheries live.”
"The acidity increased more than 10 times faster than had been
predicted by
climate change models and other studies ... This increase will have a
severe impact
on marine food webs and suggests that ocean acidification may be a
more urgent
issue than previously thought, at least in some areas of the ocean."
Best regards,
Horace Heffner
http://www.mtaonline.net/~hheffner/
