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To: Hawkmoon who wrote (38675)3/2/2013 1:46:14 AM
From: Wharf Rat1 Recommendation  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 86356
 


Change in sea surface pH caused by anthropogenic CO2 between the 1700s and the 1990s.
Graphic courtesy Pacific Science Association.

terrain.org

Ocean Acidification Rate May Be Unprecedented, Study Says
Mar. 1, 2012 — The world's oceans may be turning acidic faster today from human carbon emissions than they did during four major extinctions in the last 300 million years, when natural pulses of carbon sent global temperatures soaring, says a new study in Science.

sciencedaily.com

Upper Ocean Heat Content is Rising

Time series of seasonal (red dots) and annual average (black line) of global upper ocean heat content for the 0-700m layer since 1955. More information: BAMS State of the Climate in 2009.

salinity, too



Surface salinity changes for 1950 to 2000. Red indicates regions becoming saltier, and blue regions becoming fresher. Image by Paul Durack/LLNL.
  • https://www.llnl.gov/news/newsreleases/2012/Apr/NR-12-04-02.html

  • "You can't measure oceanic Iron, or PH, from 60 years ago because no one thought to do so"
    exept the people who did, cuz they are smarter than you.. What has been the change in Fe which caused plankton to crash?