While I don't doubt it to much, one would think
that would happen since there is more CO2 in the air ?.
Intuitive I would think.

As a scientist and technologist,
I'm disappointed that locations or method was not
mentioned.  Volcanoes are on the rise and have been
for some time.  The ring of fire is hot.  Hawaii
is building another big island.  And all of the
carbon and poison put up by the oil field fires
in the region of Iraq and Kuwait stole oxygen and
created CO2 among other gases and acids (sulfur).

Is it being measured world wide and in the various
streams that generate life in the world ? Or in
the central areas or coastal areas ?

If world wide then :

The reefs will begin to alter as well.  Perhaps
more sink holes in the Gulf area and island
sinking in the pacific.

Or was this a Great Lakes project and a thesis projection
across the world.  Wish we knew more facts.

In the Great Lakes there are many more boats/ships/square mile
and many of them dump exhaust into the water or near it.

Martin

Ross Mayhew wrote:
> This is of definite concern to anyone who collects or studies
> shell-bearing molluscs!! A recent study outlined below, found that the
> world's oceans are becoming more acidic at a rate about 10 times faster
> than most climate models are predicting. This is NOT good news....
>
> http://www.world-science.net/othernews/081126_acid
>
> Oceans acidifying much faster than was thought: study
>
> Nov. 26, 2008
> Courtesy University of Chicago
> and World Science staff
>
> The oceans are becoming more acidic, and much faster than pre­vi­ously
> thought, sci­en­tists say. The pro­cess, a pos­sible threat to some
> ocean life, seems to be linked with ris­ing lev­els of at­mos­pher­ic
> gas­es that are blamed for glob­al warm­ing, ac­cord­ing to the
> re­search­ers.
>
> O­cean­side rocks cov­ered with mus­sels are one hab­i­tat that may be
> threat­ened by in­creas­ing ocean acid­i­ty, re­search­ers say.
> (Cred­it: J.T. Woot­ton, U. Chi­cago).
> Univers­ity of Chi­ca­go scientists de­tailed the new find­ings in a
> pa­per pub­lished on­line by the re­search jour­nal Pro­ceed­ings of the
> Na­tional Acad­e­my of Sci­ences Nov. 24. The study is based on 24,519
> mea­sure­ments of ocean ac­id­ity span­ning eight years.
>
> Dur­ing that time, “the ac­id­ity in­creased more than 10 times faster”
> than cli­mate change mod­els and oth­er stud­ies had pre­dicted, said
> the uni­ver­s­ity’s J. Tim­o­thy Woot­ton, lead au­thor of the stu­dy.
> “This in­crease will have a se­vere im­pact on ma­rine food webs.”
>
> Woot­ton and col­leagues said the pro­cess seems to be oc­cur­ing in
> step with in­creas­ing lev­els of car­bon di­ox­ide in the at­mos­phere.
> Car­bon di­ox­ide is a key “green­house gas,” a com­pound that
> re­search­ers say acts as a large-scale blan­ket in the at­mos­phere,
> trap­ping heat on Earth and thus driv­ing glob­al warm­ing.
>
> When the car­bon di­ox­ide dis­solves in wa­ter it forms car­bonic
> ac­id. Ab­nor­mally ac­idic wa­ter harms cer­tain sea an­i­mals, the
> au­thors said. “Many sea crea­tures have shells or skele­tons made of
> cal­ci­um car­bonate, which the ac­id can dis­solve,” said the
> uni­ver­s­ity’s Cath­er­ine Pfis­ter, a co-au­thor of the stu­dy.
>
> They added that the acidity could re­duce the ocean’s abil­ity to soak
> up more car­bon di­ox­ide, a pro­cess which some have hoped would
> miti­gate cli­mate change.
>
> -Ross mayhew.
> http://www.schnr-specimen-shells.com/
>
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