http://ocean.nationalgeographic.com/ocean/critical-issues-ocean-acidification/
"Scientists are calling for drastic measures to avert massive bleaching of the world's reef"
Todays shallowed-water sea life is more vuerable to carbonic acid. For millions of years, oceans maintained a relatively stable acidity level. Research shows that the pH of the surface is quickly reducing which can cause distructive world consequences. Carbon dioxide dissolves in the ocean creating carbonic acid which cause higer acidity, mainly near the surface. Also proven to kill the marine animals that live there and is suspected as the cause of reproductive disorders in some fish. "On the pH scale, which runs from 0 to 14, solutions with low numbers are considered acidic and those with higher numbers are basic and 7 is neutral." The past 300 million years the ocean pH has been averaging about 8.2pH units. Now it is around 8.1pH units. Representing a 25% increase in acidity over the past two centuries. Oceans absorb about 1/3 of human-created CO2 which is about 22 million tons per day and cause the pH level to reduce by 0.5pH units. Killing most sea life such as; oysters, shrimp, lobster,many planktonic organism, and even some fish species.
We know that cutting down trees and destroying plants is causing less oxygen and more carbon dioxide. But now, not only is it effecting people and animals on land, its all also effecting marine life. The issue of too much carbon dioxide in the air has become a lot more serious.
ReplyDeleteI feel like people know the consequences of their actions, they just don't care. I don't consider myself a tree-hugger, but I find it strange that people are too lazy to try to coexist with all the other things on this earth. This article, as well as others, shows that everything really is connected in nature in a very delicate way, and its just a shame that people can't respect that
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