It's No Accident: Study Says Oceans Acidifying at Unprecedented Rate →
Bad news on that other big CO2 problem.
“In some regions, the man-made rate of change in ocean acidity since the Industrial Revolution is hundred times greater than the natural rate of change between the Last Glacial Maximum and pre-industrial times,” Friedrich said in a press release. The glacial maximum occurred more than 20,000 years ago, and the oceans acidified naturally in the millennia following. Even then, though, the rates of acidification were two orders of magnitude smaller than what we see today.
