Marine Scientists Issue Monaco Declaration Calling for Immediate Action to Reduce Ocean Acidification
Green Car Congress
JANUARY 30, 2009
The ocean absorbs CO 2 from the atmosphere at a rate of more than 20 million tons per day, thus removing one-fourth of the anthropogenic CO 2 emitted to the atmosphere each year and reducing the climate-change impacts of this greenhouse gas. However, when CO 2 dissolves in seawater, it forms carbonic acid. 2007; Tyrrell et al.,
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