‘Ticking timebomb’: sea acidity has reached critical levels, threatening entire ecosystems – study

‘Ticking timebomb’: sea acidity has reached critical levels, threatening entire ecosystems – study
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Ocean acidification has already crossed a crucial threshold for planetary health, scientists say in unexpected finding

Until now, ocean acidification had not been deemed to have crossed its “planetary boundary”. The planetary boundaries are the natural limits of key global systems – such as climate, water and wildlife diversity – beyond which their ability to maintain a healthy planet is in danger of failing. Six of the nine had been crossed already, scientists said last year.

However, a new study by the UK’s Plymouth Marine Laboratory (PML), the Washington-based National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and Oregon State University’s Co-operative Institute for Marine Resources Studies found that ocean acidification’s “boundary” was also reached about five years ago.

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Nice, we’re all fucked so that billionaires could live the life they wanted and selfishly felt they deserved to live

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Ex environmental scientist here.

From what I was studying back in 2014, this is the thing that's actually most likely to kill us.

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That'll be helped by our lovely UK water companies - looking at you Thames Water, Welsh Water, Yorkshire Water, Anglian Water ... - emptying human shit into the waterways rather than processing it as they paid by consumers to do.

Shit is usually a mildly acidic.

They get fined, then try to sell themselves to investors who want full immunity. Regulator just shrugs.

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This is why I love climate change. Humans are a stupid animal. Just watching the world burn and my god it's a beautiful orange

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It's fine. It's not like the oceans provide most of the world's oxygen or anything!

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That's incredibly alarming. Ocean acidification not only threatens coral reefs and shellfish but disrupts the entire marine food web. We've really crossed a line here — it's like playing a high-stakes game of Snake Game where every move matters, and now we've boxed ourselves in with nowhere to go unless we act fast.

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