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Flashback 2012: Taking Fears of Acid Oceans With a Grain of Salt: Scientists at San Diego's Scripps Institution of Oceanography: 'On both a monthly and annual scale, even the most stable open ocean sites see pH changes many times larger than the annual rate of acidification,' say the authors of the study.
Matt Ridley: 'Over coral reefs, the pH decline between dusk and dawn is almost half as much as the decrease in average pH expected over the next 100 years. The noise is greater than the signal' - Another recent study, by scientists from the U.K., Hawaii and Massachusetts, concluded that "marine and freshwater assemblages have always experienced variable pH conditions," and that "in many freshwater lakes, pH changes that are orders of magnitude greater than those projected for the 22nd-century oceans can occur over periods of hours."
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By: Marc Morano - Climate DepotNovember 15, 2013 2:42 PM
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