155 scientists from 26 countries have issued a declaration on the severe threat posed by ocean acidification following the 2nd symposium on “The Ocean in a High-CO2 World” held on 6-9 October 2008 at the Oceanography Museum of Monaco.
The Monaco Declaration, issued on 30 January 2009, states:
Ocean acidification is [...]
ABC News, 5th December 2008
Scientists who recently completed the most comprehensive study of the Great Barrier Reef are now turning their attention to Western Australia’s coast, focussing on Ningaloo Reef.
An Australian Institute of Marine Science study recently found the steepest drop in coral growth on the Great Barrier Reef in at [...]
Glen De’ath and Katherina Fabricius, two co-authors from the recent science paper on the decline in coral calcification on the Great Barrier Reef were interviewed by Australian ABC radio this afternoon. Listen online below, or read on after the jump for a transcript.
[audio:http://67.220.225.10/~clim2165/cs/audio/20090102-am07-coral-decline.mp3]
update: fixed the link to the correct interview.
A new study published in PNAS (Rosa and Seibel 2008) indicates that decreased ocean pH could affect the metabolism of large squid. See the summary article in the NYT here.
Synergistic effects of climate-related variables suggest future physiological impairment in a top ocean predator
By the end of this century, anthropogenic carbon [...]
The journal Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment have published an interesting guest editorial article titled “The oceans’ acid test: can our reefs be saved?” by Jacqueline Savitz and Ellycia Harrould-Kolieb:
The climate change dialogue has picked up steam in recent months, but it has largely ignored the oceans, in spite of the tremendous service [...]
“Reef guide to benefit research” (Sydney Morning Herald, 26/11/08)
‘I mean we’re not going to have reefs for much longer but we can at least have them a bit longer.” Pat Hutchings, a 40-year veteran of coral reef research, is not optimistic for the long-term future of the Great Barrier Reef but she [...]
Ben McNeil and Richard Matear from the University of New South Wales have just published a very important article in the Proceedings of the National Academy of United States (Link to full text). This paper further emphasises the critical importance of keeping carbon dioxide levels lower than 450 ppm, as Chris McGrath highlighted [...]
Long Cao and Ken Caldeira from the Carnegie Institution at Stanford have a new paper in Geophysical Research Letters on atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) stabilization and ocean acidification, a critical topic for current marine science and public policy. Hoegh-Guldberg et al (2007) illustrated the essential chemistry at the heart of this problem as [...]
Reuters, 27th August 2008
To keep coral reefs from being eaten away by increasingly acidic oceans, humans need to limit the amount of climate-warming greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, a panel of marine scientists said on Wednesday.
"The most logical and critical action to address the impacts of ocean acidification [...]
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