Even scientists admit there are uncertainties about climate change. How certain is ocean acidification?
There is no argument that seawater chemistry is changing due to rising atmospheric CO2, and that human combustion of fossil fuels and deforestation are the root cause. There is less certainty about the possible biological impacts of ocean acidification, but this primarily reflects the fact that different groups of marine organisms express a wide range of sensitivity to changing seawater chemistry. There is broad agreement among the scientific community that ocean acidification is occurring and that it likely will have significant effects, some positive and some negative, on a large number of marine organisms. — Scott Doney, Senior Scientist, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, USA The evidence about ocean acidification is conflicting, so even the scientists cannot agree. There is no disagreement in the chemical data, which show that ocean acidification is happening. However, biological data show varied responses among organisms to OA. It can sometimes seem odd that experiments conduc
There is no argument that seawater chemistry is changing due to rising atmospheric CO2, and that human combustion of fossil fuels and deforestation are the root cause. There is less certainty about the possible biological impacts of ocean acidification, but this primarily reflects the fact that different groups of marine organisms express a wide range of sensitivity to changing seawater chemistry. There is broad agreement among the scientific community that ocean acidification is occurring and that it likely will have significant effects, some positive and some negative, on a large number of marine organisms.
