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Is Ocean Acidification from Rising Carbon Dioxide a Grave Threat?


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1 Centre for Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru 560 012, India
 

‘Global warming’ is in the news almost daily these days, but rarely do we hear about its ‘evil twin’ or ‘the other carbon dioxide (CO2) problem’, viz. ocean acidification. Global warming, caused mainly by anthropogenic CO2 emissions, is apparently accompanied by ocean acidification, which is another major growing global problem with continued increase in atmospheric CO2 levels. While there is large uncertainty in the detection and attribution of climate warming because of the large natural variability in surface temperatures, ocean acidification is relatively a certain and straight forward consequence of rising atmospheric CO2.
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G. Bala
Centre for Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru 560 012, India

Abstract


‘Global warming’ is in the news almost daily these days, but rarely do we hear about its ‘evil twin’ or ‘the other carbon dioxide (CO2) problem’, viz. ocean acidification. Global warming, caused mainly by anthropogenic CO2 emissions, is apparently accompanied by ocean acidification, which is another major growing global problem with continued increase in atmospheric CO2 levels. While there is large uncertainty in the detection and attribution of climate warming because of the large natural variability in surface temperatures, ocean acidification is relatively a certain and straight forward consequence of rising atmospheric CO2.


DOI: https://doi.org/10.18520/cs%2Fv114%2Fi01%2F7-8