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Originally Posted by Turtle
We have a lot more scientific reasons to reduce reliance on fossil fuels than CO2.   |
Likewise, there are scientific reasons to not acquit CO2, such as ocean acidification.
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Although the natural absorption of CO2 by the world's oceans helps mitigate the climatic effects of anthropogenic emissions of CO2, it is believed that the resulting decrease in pH will have negative consequences, primarily for oceanic calcifying organisms...
While the full ecological consequences of these changes in calcification are still uncertain, it appears likely that calcifying species will be adversely affected. There is also some evidence that the effect of acidification on coccolithophores (among the most abundant phytoplankton in the ocean) in particular may eventually exacerbate climate change, by decreasing the earth's albedo via their effects on oceanic cloud cover[10].
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Ocean acidification
So many feedback loops...
