Sentences with phrase «ocean acidity since»

You will not find anyone, here including the skeptics» world, who will say it is an invention, because we do measure it and we do see the increase in ocean acidity since the Industrial Revolution.

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On average, researchers estimate that surface waters, where key players in the ocean food chain live, have seen a 0.1 decrease in pH since the beginning of the Industrial Revolution; that's an extraordinarily rapid 30 % increase in acidity.

As growing carbon dioxide gas emissions have dissolved into the world's oceans, the average acidity of the waters has increased by 30 % since 1750.

Researchers estimate that rising carbon emissions have increased the ocean's acidity by 30 % since preindustrial times, threatening some fish and shell - growing creatures.

Since the Industrial Revolution, ocean acidity has increased 30 %, and projections are saying it could be 150 % more acidic by the end of the century.

Three global bleaching events have taken place since the 1980s, including one that is going on right now, as a result of climate change increasing acidity levels and temperatures in the world's oceans.

One can logically wonder at just how much Dr. Dorney knows if he begins his testimony with «Today the surface ocean is almost 30 % more acidic than it was in pre-industrial times, and over the next few decades, the level of acidity of the surface ocean will continue to rise...» when the worries about acidic oceans is pointless since where is the base line?

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 has been recorded since the 1960s in terms of both rising ocean temperature and rising acidity, both of which reduce the capacity to remove CO2 from the atmosphere, thereby advancing AGW and further ocean warming.

The oceans are at dire risk too, since some of the CO2 in the atmospheric CO2 dissolves in the ocean, and creates the same kind of acidity (carbonic acid) as a soda, with disastrous effect on marine life.

The ocean's acidity has increased about 30 per cent since the start of the industrial revolution, as seas absorb about one - third of the build - up of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere.

However the soaring levels of man - made CO2 in the atmosphere are proving devastating to the oceans themselves: since the beginning of the industrial era they have become 30 percent more acidic, reaching an acidity peak not seen in at least 55 million years, scientists say.

From the petition: «Ocean acidity has increased 30 % since the beginning of the industrial revolution, and seawater acidity could increase 150 % by century's end (Feely et al. 2006).»

Why August is the Best Month for the Oceans Ocean Acidification Conference: Acidity Up 30 % Since Industrial Revolution - Producing Toxic Assets For The World

The world's ocean has already experienced a 30 % rise in acidity since the industrial revolution, with acidity expected to rise 100 to 150 % over preindustrial levels by the end of this century.