Ocean acidification: the other CO2 problem

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• Friday 20 March 2009
• 8.00pm-9.00pm
• Lecturers: Dr Carol Turley

PLEASE NOTE THIS IS A MEMBERS ONLY EVENT

Over approximately the last 200 years, since the start of the industrial revolution, human dependence on fossil fuel energy has increased  atmospheric CO₂ concentrations from about 280 parts per million to 38 5ppm. If we do not mitigate global CO₂ emissions it now seems almost certain that the greenhouse effect of CO₂ will result in serious global warming. The oceans have taken up half the fossil fuel CO₂ produced over this period and whilst this has buffered climate change to some extent, it is increasing the acidity of the world's oceans. Further rapid increases in ocean acidity will happen this century at the same time as the seas are warming, creating multiple threats to the marine environment. This will have a profound impact on ocean chemistry and could have an equally profound impact on marine organisms, food webs, ecosystems and the services they provide. This Discourse aims to demonstrate that ocean acidification is a strong additional argument to that of climate change for urgent and substantial reduction of CO₂ emissions.

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