Ocean water dissolving the shells of marine life? Sounds like the plot of a science fiction movie, but for many shelled marine organisms it's a reality due to anthropogenic emissions of carbon dioxide. With the atmospheric concentration of carbon dioxide at its highest point in the last 650,000 years, the oceans are becoming more acidic as the water turns carbon dioxide into carbonic acid.
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Posted by elly | Thursday, June 12, 2008 at 6:41pm
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Categories: Global Warming | Keywords: anthropogenic carbon emissions, carbonic acid, Climate Change, corals, elly's hot topics, Global Warming, ocean acification, oceans, science fiction, shelled marine life
