Sentences with phrase «like ocean acidity»

Not exact matches

For example, using chemicals to make the planet more reflective might cool things a bit, but it would do nothing to reduce other greenhouse - gas impacts, like rising acidity in the oceans as they absorb more carbon dioxide.

As acids go, H2CO3 is relatively innocuous — we drink it all the time in Coke and other carbonated beverages — but in sufficient quantities it can change the water's pH. Already, humans have pumped enough carbon into the oceans — some hundred and twenty billion tons — to produce a.1 decline in surface pH. Since pH, like the Richter scale, is a logarithmic measure, a.1 drop represents a rise in acidity of about thirty per cent.

It means hotter global temperatures, more extreme weather events like heatwaves and floods, melting ice, rising sea levels and increased acidity of the oceans.

«The resulting increase in the ocean's acidity disturbs important biological processes, like the build - up of calcium carbonate shells.

When atmospheric carbon dioxide is absorbed into the ocean, it reacts to produce carbonic acid, increasing the acidity of seawater and diminishing the amount of a key building block (carbonate) used by marine species like shellfish and corals to make their shells and skeletons.

For me, that means I'd like to see it broken down, which Coby has done well so far, by (these are just examples i'd like to see): Factors and evidence supporting or effectively debunking a) ocean acidity, which in itself has produced a number of alarming effects including less saline density in turn causing a slowing of thermohaline circulation (such as the gulf stream) b) photosynthesis - carbon sinks vs. sources or any direction that you'd like to take using what science knows CO2 to have an effect on.