The world's oceans absorb CO2. During this process, the CO2 changes the water's ph causing acidification which expedites destruction of coral reefs, calcareous plankton and all organisms whose skeletons or shells contain calcium carbonate.
Most of the affected biota resides near the surface of the water, where the greatest pH change would be expected to occur, but deep-ocean biota may be more sensitive to pH changes.
Scientists Ken Caldeira and Michael E Wickett of the Lawrence Livermore National Library created a model to what will happen to the ocean's PH if global carbon emissions continue at their current rate of growth.
They conclude: "We conclude that unabated CO2 emissions over the coming centuries may produce changes in ocean pH that are greater than any experienced in the past 300 Myr, with the possible exception of those resulting from rare, catastrophic events in Earth's history"
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Amateur historian Rick Rogers has spent decades developing a theory that either Dutch or Spanish traders visited Hawaii before Captain Cook's 1778 arrival. Maps from 1589 showing an approximation of Hawaii's shape and location; remains of a 1664 women indicating she had syphilis and the disappearance of 5 Spanish ships plying the Manila to Acapulco trade in the 1500 and 1600s make his case.
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