Tuesday, November 25, 2008

Bye, bye, shellfish

New data indicates that ocean waters are becoming acidic ten times faster than climate models have predicted. More CO2 in the atmosphere results in more dissolved CO2 in the ocean, increasing the water's acidity. Among the first to be impacted are shellfish and corals.

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Blogger Ry said...

Pretty much every environmental catastrophe imaginable is happening 10 times faster than had been predicted previously. I remember near the turn of the century when they were predicting an ice-free Arctic Ocean in the summer of 2100. A few years later, it was 2070, then 2050, then 2030. Now it's 2012.

So... with a trend like that, do you think it will happen in 2012...?

...or 2010.

...or 2009.

I betcha a dollar it happens in 2009.

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