BendiNewsTest: Climate Change Blamed for Alarming Increases in Ocean Acidity

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Friday, October 10, 2014

Climate Change Blamed for Alarming Increases in Ocean Acidity

The effects of climate change seems to know no bounds: new research shows carbon emissions have dramatically increased the acidity of our oceans to the point where our entire food web is at risk of collapsing. In a recent report to the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), scientists said the ocean’s acidity level has gone up 26 percent in the past 200 years, since the beginning of the Industrial Revolution. According to Phys.org, that increase in acidity directly mirrors the proportion of carbon dioxide oceans have been absorbing ever since humans started burning massive amounts of fossil fuels for energy.