Researchers Reveal We’re Threatening Marine Life Due To Greenhouse Gases
Climate change is an encroaching topic that’s well-echoed through the masses. Politicians become divided, grocery story products tot around ecologically friendly labels. Plastic bottles have been made into purses. But this carbon-heavy world we’re living in transcends our soil; it make’s it’s way into our seas.
Fossil fuel burn-off releases copious amounts of once solidified carbon molecules into the atmosphere—and it has to go somewhere. Our oceans have taken-up the short straw in that regard, becoming more and more acidic in the process.
The Southern Oceans have, for years, been considered a sink for carbon absorption, increasing year-to-year. “It means that the Southern Ocean is continuing to take up large amounts of carbon dioxide, but there is a concern there’s a lot more variability than we understood. So it’s not clear that that sink will continue, it could revert back to lower values, we just don’t know,” said Dr. Tilbrook, chemical oceanographer at ACE.
Elevated carbon dioxide levels in these waters has been linked to declines in fragile invertebrate life… which are essential to nourishing larger marine life; the entire food web is in danger of becoming untangled.
