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Ocean Acidification is Occurring at Startling Rate of 5 Percent per Decade - C C - Nov 14, 2014
http://www.scienceworldreport.com/articles/18765/20141111/ocean-acidification-occurring-startling-rate-5-percent-per-decade.htm
EXCERPT: Climate change isn't just heating things up. It's also causing the world's oceans to acidify. Now, a team of scientists has published the most comprehensive picture yet of how acidity levels vary across the world's oceans, revealing how humans impact their environment. As the atmospheric levels of carbon dioxide have increased, so too have the levels in the ocean. In fact, the oceans have absorbed about a quarter of the carbon dioxide that humans have released into the atmosphere over the last 200 years.
Yet while the oceans offset global warming because of this, they've also become more acidic due to the increased levels of CO2. [...] waters as far north as Iceland as far south as Antarctica are acidifying at a rate of about 5 percent per decade. This corresponds with the amount of CO2 being added to the atmosphere...