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[Plenty Magazine - get your green on!] Daily News Round-Up, July 7, 2006: A team of researchers from the National Science Foundation, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and the U.S. Geological Survey reports that carbon dioxide from burning fuels has caused a dramatic change in the ocean’s acidity, threatening ocean ecosystems all over the world, according to an Associated Press article yesterday.
[Chaotic Utopia] Acidic oceans threaten corals: See below for more information.">According to an article in this week's Washington Post, coral reefs may be greatly affected by an increase in the acidity of the oceans, which correlate with the rising levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. Scientists are estimating that the acidity level will be sufficiently deadly by the end of this century:
[WattHead] Rising Carbon Dioxide Levels Threaten Marine... : "It is clear that seawater chemistry will change in coming decades and centuries in ways that will dramatically alter marine life," says Joan Kleypas, the report's lead author and a scientist at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) in Boulder. "But we are only beginning to understand the complex interactions between large-scale chemistry changes and marine ecology.
Madtrucker Gone Mad: YOU'D THINK that the threat to the Earth's climate posed by greenhouse gas emissions would be enough to get policymakers to take seriously the need to reduce human use of fossil fuels. Rising sea levels, reduced polar ice and dramatic regional climate shifts represent serious dangers to the way of life of large swaths of the world's population.
[Green Car Congress] Rising Levels of Carbon Dioxide Threat to Marine... : Is anyone here seriously arguing for continued and unmitigated burning of fossil fuels until they are all gone?? At what point do we acknowledge that policy needs to be changed, and begin to make the difficult transition.
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