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August 17th, 2004
Death of the Planet

Seas Turn to Acid as They Absorb Global Pollution

Seas Turn to Acid as They Absorb Global Pollution

A huge wake-up call…..
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http://news.independent.co.uk/world/environment/story.jsp?story=546761

Seas Turn to Acid as They Absorb Global Pollution

August 1, 2004 -The Independent

Oceans absorbing half of carbon dioxide released, slowing global warming,
but causing catastrophic changes in the marine environment

The world’s oceans are sacrificing themselves to try to stave off global
warming, a major international research programme has discovered.

Their waters have absorbed about half of the carbon dioxide emitted by human
activities over the past two centuries, the 15-year study has found. Without
this moderating effect, climate change would have been much more rapid and
severe.

But in the process the seas have become more acid, threatening their very
life. The research warns that this could kill off their coral reefs,
shellfish and plankton, on which all marine life depends.

News of the alarming conclusions of the research - headed by US government
scientists - follows the discovery, reported in Friday’s Independent, of a
catastrophic failure of North Sea birds to breed this summer, thought to be
the result of global warming.

The disaster - forecast in The Independent on Sunday last October - appears
to have been caused by plankton moving hundreds of miles to the north to
escape from an unprecedented warming on the sea’s waters. Sand eels -
millions of which normally provide the staple diet of many seabirds and
large fish - have disappeared, because they, in turn, depend on the
plankton.

The new study warns of an even more alarming collapse throughout the world’s
oceans if climate change continues. It is the result of a mammoth research
effort, which has taken and analysed 72,000 samples of seawater from 10,000
different places in the oceans since 1989.

Led by scientists working for the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration in Seattle, it has also involved teams of researchers from
Australia, Canada, Spain, Japan, South Korea and Germany.

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