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Pacific turns acidic
2014-03-30 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
BDNews24: The tropical Pacific Ocean is getting acidic at a much faster rate than expected, a new study says. The cause behind this rapid increase was carbon dioxide (CO2), the combination of its natural variability and human-caused emissions in the atmosphere. "We assume that most of the carbon dioxide increase (in the tropical Pacific) is due to anthropogenic CO2," Adrienne Sutton, a research scientist with United States National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, NOAA's Joint Institute for the Study...
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