The Puget Sound Experiment in Acidification

Michael van Baker — Tue, 31 May 2011 17:36:48 +0000

Operating as a carbon dioxide sink, unfortunately, means the oceans are gradually (or frighteningly fast, considering the scale) becoming more acidic. On the 0-14 pH scale, 7 is neutral; the oceans on average have dropped from 8.2 to 8.1 (it's a logarithmic scale, so that's a much bigger shift than it looks). So they're not going to eat the skin of bathers' bones--yet!--but to the marine life adapted to 8.2, things don't feel quite right at all.

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The Puget Sound Experiment in Acidification