Ocean acidity - new Google Earth tour 01 October 2012 | Article
A new guide on ocean acidification and a new tour on Google
Earth, showing the speed and scale of impact CO2 emissions will
have on the ocean, is being launched today at The Ocean in a
High CO2 World Symposium in Monterey, California. The tour will
fly the viewer around Google Earth to explain ocean
acidification and its rapid effects on marine life and humanity
. The chemistry of one half of the Arctic Ocean, for example,
will be changed by 2050 if CO2 levels continue to rise at
current rates. “The new knowledge and multimedia guides released
today open up ocean acidification so everyone can explore from
their desktops what our current carbon dioxide emissions may
mean to the ocean, and to us, in the very near future,” says Dan
Laffoley, Marine Vice Chair of IUCN’s World Commission on
Protected Areas and Chair of Europe’s Ocean Acidification
Reference User Group. The new guide, Ocean Acidification: The
knowledge base 2012 provides the latest sci