This is one of the scariest statistics I have ever heard...
🟥 Our oceans are 30% more acidic today than they were 150 years ago.
Think about that: 30% more ‼ in such a brief span of time. It's no wonder our whole ecosystem is crashing down.
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For millions of years, the exchange of COâ‚‚ between the surface of the ocean and the atmosphere remained constant. In the past 150 years, humans have greatly increased the amount of COâ‚‚ in the atmosphere by burning fossil fuels and changing land-use practices. As a result, the ocean has absorbed about 29% of this additional carbon.
This added COâ‚‚ has had significant effects on the ocean. Surface waters are now 30% more acidic than they were at the start of the industrial era. Ocean acidification is now happening at a faster rate than at any point in the last 66 million years, and possibly in the last 300 million years. And projections show that by the end of this century, ocean surface waters could be more than twice as acidic as they were at the end of last century if we do not reduce our carbon emissions.
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LEARN MORE -- https://www.ucsusa.org/resources/co2-and-ocean-acidification
#Science #Environment #Climate #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis
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