Yale Environment 360: An Ominous Warning on the Effects of Ocean Acidification.
“The PETM was powerful enough to trigger widespread extinctions in the deep oceans. Today’s faster, bigger changes to the ocean may well bring a new wave of extinctions. Paleontologists haven’t found signs of major extinctions of corals or other carbonate-based species in surface waters around PETM. But since today’s ocean acidification is so much stronger, it may affect life in shallow water as well.”
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Amen.
Posted by Garret P Vreeland on 02/15/10 at 07:14 PM
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I’m not a doomer, but this is the thing that keeps me up at night: if we succeed in murdering the oceans, there won’t be “people hundreds of millions of years from now” to identify anything.