Thursday July 03, 2008 at 12:28

“In a editorial in the journal Science, the researchers also noted that unlike CO2’s climate impacts, which vary between models to some extent, ocean acidification is based on basic chemistry and is nearly sure to occur if we continue burning fossil fuels, with disastrous consequences for some marine life. “What we’re doing in the next decade could mean that for the next two million years, there are no coral reefs in the ocean,” said Ken Caldeira, a Stanford professor, and recent Wired profilee.”

One of the most depressing things I’ve heard a scientist say.

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