Join us to learn about hands - on activities and experience short demonstrations that can be used in both formal and informal settings to explain and educate
others about ocean acidification.
Anderson's colleagues now give short talks connecting the aquarium's central exhibit about coral reefs with
information about ocean acidification — the result of carbon dioxide building up in the oceans that is a major threat to marine life.
Three of these videos, «Americans on the Front Lines of Climate Change,» deal with impacts being felt by people around the country: A fire chief in Colorado talking about wildfires; a father - son rancher family in West Texas talking about extreme heat and agriculture; and two first cousins and fifth - generation oyster farmers in Washington state
speaking about ocean acidification.
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Schneider: When you're covering climate change, you don't get somebody from a deep ecology group to tell you we're near the end of the world and then somebody from the Competitive Enterprise Institute who's going to tell you carbon dioxide is a fertilizer while
forgetting about ocean acidification.
One of the lead authors of the summary, and chair of the symposium, Ulf Riebesell of GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel said: «What we can now say with high levels of
confidence about ocean acidification sends a clear message.
Video Preview: A Sea Change: Imagine a world without fish — Award - winning documentary and related blog about ocean acidification
Marine scientists who met in Monaco in October 2008 released a strong statement on January 30, 2009
about ocean acidification accelerating due to increasing carbon emissions caused by human - induced climate change.
Kenneth Caldeira, a climate specialist whom I've
interviewed about ocean acidification, geo - engineering, climate tipping points and other questions, says there is substantial peril in «describing policy prescriptions as if they're a scientific conclusion.»
Other than telling us that coral reefs (and Pelagic ecosystems) are in trouble — I have already kissed the coral reefs goodbye due to temperature increases alone — no firm conclusions were
drawn about ocean acidification and its affects on ocean biology.
The FAQs and this fact sheet are intended to aid scientists, science communicators, and science policy advisors asked to comment on
details about ocean acidification.
I have focused on seven concerns
about ocean acidification including that marine life might lose the ability to make shells and existing shells will become weaker, and that the loss of shell - forming plants and animals will reduce food for those higher in the food chain.
In Washington and Oregon, oysters farms are in coastal Pacific waters where upwelling currents are bringing up cold, deep water with higher amounts of CO2 and a more acidic pH. Watch and listen to two oyster farmers from Taylor Shellfish Farms in Washington state talk
how about ocean acidification is impacting their young oysters.
He shows no indication of
caring about the ocean acidification that the burning of fossil fuels is causing, nor the many deaths and serious diseases caused by the air pollution from burning coal to generate power.
As our ocean chemistry continues to change, we will educate decision
makers about ocean acidification and encourage the planting Ocean Friendly Gardens to create «living soils» that trap carbon and reduce nutrient runoff.
«A Sea Change — Imagine a World Without Fish» is a recently released documentary
film about ocean acidification, the little - known ugly sister of global warming.
The TreeHugger archives are filled to the brim with
stories about ocean acidification and the potential future effects of it, but here's a quick one on just how fast today's oceans are changing and how it fits into historic (and catastrophic) ocean changes.
A
movie about ocean acidification, currently in production, is fusing the scientific and mainstream cultural views of environment - after the fashion of Inconvenient Truth.
These videos produced by Plymouth Marine Laboratory provide
information about ocean acidification and raises awareness of the implications associated with increasing levels of carbon dioxide and changes in seawater pH levels.
This brief presents the highlights of the Frequently Asked
Questions about Ocean Acidification (2010, 2012), a detailed summary of the state of ocean acidification research and understanding.