Sea change

• Autores: Roger Harrabin
• Localización: New scientist, ISSN 0262-4079, Nº. 2973, 2014, pág. 28
• Idioma: inglés
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  • Harrabin talks about why may be its too late for politicians who are waking up to ocean acidification. Normally researchers projecting the effect of rising CO2 must rely on computer models. But in Papua New Guinea, they can observe it for real as bubbles dissolve to form carbonic acid, creating on a small scale the conditions expected globally by the end of the century. At first it is a beguiling sight through a diver's mask. The parcels of CO2 are silvered by the sunlight as they wobble towards the surface. But then the eye wanders to the background, The reef is miserably depleted.