Carbon emissions causing huge ocean acidification

Majority of world's leading marine scientists agree that immediate action in reducing CO2 emissions is necessary if we want to slow down current levels of ocean acidification and give chance for survival to many different marine ecosystems. Ocean acidification is widely spreading doing severe damage to many sea creatures, and only way we can slow down this accelerating process is to limit future atmospheric CO2 levels. Without this we could see serious problems for many marine ecosystems, and many marine species will be push to the very edge of extinction.

Increased amounts of carbon dioxide (CO2) in the atmosphere are making ocean water more acidic as the gas dissolves to create carbonic acid. Scientists have calculated that ocean chemistry is changing 100 times faster than in the 650,000 years that preceded the modern industrial era and since the late 1980s an overall drop in the pH of the oceans fell from 8.16 to 8.05.