a news stream provided by the Ocean Acidification International Coordination Center (OA-ICC)
Atmospheric carbon dioxide concentration is expected to exceed 500 parts per million and global temperatures to rise by at least 2 degrees C by 2050 to 2100, values that significantly exceed those of at least the past 420,000 years during which most extant marine organisms evolved…
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AAAS – ScienceMag, 1 December 2007. Resource.
Ocean acidification may have severe consequences for marine ecosystems; however, assessing its future impact is difficult because laboratory experiments and field observations are limited by their reduced ecologic complexity and sample period, respectively.
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AAAS – ScienceMag, 1 March 2012. Resource.
…Ocean observations are severely limited with respect to providing reliable estimates of the signal-to-noise ratio of human-induced trends in carbonate chemistry against natural factors. Using three Earth system models we show that the current anthropogenic trend in ocean acidification already exceeds the level of natural variability by up to 30 times on regional scales…
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Nature, 1 January 2012. Resource.
…By performing a partial-equilibrium analysis, we estimate global and regional economic costs of production loss of mollusks due to ocean acidification. Our results show that the costs for the world as a whole could be over 100 billion USD with an assumption of increasing demand of mollusks with expected income growths combined with a business-as-usual emission trend towards the year 2100…
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Springer, 1 January 2012. Resource.
The ocean is becoming more acidic worldwide as a result of increased atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) and other pollutants. This fundamental change is likely to have substantial ecological and economic consequences globally. In this Article, we provide a toolbox for understanding and addressing the drivers of an acidifying ocean.
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SelectedWorks, 1 January 2013. Resource.
Es asombroso pensar que hace sólo diez años casi nadie había oído hablar de la acidificación
del océano. Ahora es mucho más ampliamente comprendido que la creciente cantidad
de dióxido de carbono (CO2) que emitimos en el aire por nuestras actividades está
reaccionando con el océano alterando su química, recorriéndolo a lo largo de la escala hacia
la acidez y, entre otros efectos, reduciendo la disponibilidad de iones de carbonato que
necesitan muchos animales marinos y plantas para construir sus conchas y esqueletos…
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IAEA, 4 July 1905. Resource.
General article explaining ocean acidification.
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Wikipedia, 1 March 2021. Resource.
This Oceanography issue has special features on ocean acidification
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Oceanography Society, 1 December 2009. Resource.
This page contains an educatinal material on ocean acidification
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NOAA, 1 April 2020. Resource.
Oceans have absorbed approximately 30% of anthropogenic CO2 emissions, causing a phenomenon known as ocean acidification. With surface ocean pH changing at a rapid pace, continued uptake of CO2 is expected to decrease ocean pH by 0.3 pH units as early as 2081…
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Global Change Biology, 1 January 2021. Resource.
