Sentences with phrase «posed by acidification»

«The obvious solution to the potential threats posed by acidification,» the authors say, «is to make rapid and substantial cuts to anthropogenic CO2 emissions.»

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Pandolfi and colleagues review the threats posed to coral reefs by increased ocean heat content and acidification and point to the role of evolution in buffering populations.

They believe that the threats posed from ocean acidification (OA) and ocean warming can, at least to some extent, be balanced by adaptation and evolution.

Changing living conditions caused by climate change or ocean acidification — the decrease of ocean pH due to the uptake of human - induced carbon dioxide from the atmosphere — pose serious threats to marine organisms.

«The region is profoundly affected by climate change — including loss of sea ice, acidification of the ocean, and increased access for industries that pose significant risks to the ocean environment.»

However, this prognosis does not take into account the additional risks posed by ocean acidification.

At the Copenhagen conference in December 2009 the Director of the U.S. Navy Task Force on Climate Change, Rear Admiral David Titley gave a somber assessment of the risks presented by climate change, including the likely need for greater humanitarian and disaster relief missions, and the dangers posed by such «wild cards» as ocean acidification and rising sea levels.

The risks of the Anthropocene include the many associated with climate change but also with ocean acidification and a gamut of other impacts such as those posed by an excess of nitrogen.

The environmental changes brought on by ocean acidification could pose a significant threat to Arctic ecosystems that are already facing challenges from changes in sea ice distribution, warming and increased freshwater discharge.

In other words: Proposed strategies to alter the amount of sunlight hitting the Earth's surface by (for example) deliberately injecting millions of tons of sulfate aerosols into the stratosphere pose enormous risks and uncertainties and don «t address the underlying causes of global warming or other major risks from rising concentrations of carbon dioxide, such as ocean acidification.

Notably, in the face of the sustained, severe threat to marine life posed by ocean acidification, the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), regards proposals to mitigate ocean acidification directly as a «threat» to biodiversity.