Focus on Ocean’s Health as Dolphin Deaths Soar

Re:Focus on Ocean’s Health as Dolphin Deaths Soar by scarmig on Monday December 23, 2013 @07:23AM (#6953961)

The oceans are huge, but we've already managed to decrease pH by 0.1 in the past century.

A pessimistic but plausible scenario has ocean pH decreasing by an additional 0.7-0.8 by 2300.

That's pretty fast. It's hard to predict how and how fast coral might adapt, but those are short time scales to expect evolution to act on.

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Re:Focus on Ocean’s Health as Dolphin Deaths Soar by ble on Monday December 23, 2013 @12:05PM (#6955238)

Pardon the profanity, but fuck! On a logarithmic scale, a decrease of 0.1 on the pH is a 25% increase in H+ concentration...

... and a decrease of 0.7 is a 500% increase in H+ concentration. That sounds apocalyptic, at least for ocean ecosystems.

Warming and acidification are increasing jellyfish blooms, right? Do you know any good recipes for grilled jellyfish?

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