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To: Brumar89 who wrote (36144)12/7/2012 11:38:48 AM
From: Wharf Rat  Read Replies (1) of 86356
 
"maybe they can scare a lot of people that the oceans will turn to acid"

Maybe

Washington State Plans for a More Acid Ocean
\Analysis by Kieran Mulvaney
Mon Dec 3, 2012 05:35 AM ET
Indeed, a study published last week found evidence that pteropods - minuscule marine snails - in some areas of the Southern Ocean are showing signs of shell corrosion.

...Indeed, in 2007, millions of oyster larvae began dying at the Whiskey Creek Shellfish Hatchery in Oregon, which raises oysters for farms from Mexico to Canada. Farther north, larvae began to die at Willapa Bay and Taylor Shellfish Farms in Washington. The cause was acidity in the water following a strong upwelling; and while the water that wells up from the deep contains CO2 that has been emitted 30 or 40 years previously, the event was a harbinger of what awaits as carbon dioxide levels in the ocean continue to increase.

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