2009Oct4: Because the Arctic Ocean has been absorbing CO2 emissions at an unprecedented rate, it is expected that 10% of the Arctic Ocean will be corrosively acidic by 2018; 50% by 2050; and 100% by 2100, according to a study by Professor Jean-Pierre Gattuso, of France’s Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique. “This will affect the whole food chain, including the North Atlantic salmon, which feeds on molluscs…There is only one way to stop the devastation the oceans are now facing and that is to limit carbon-dioxide emissions as a matter of urgency,” said Gattuso (Guardian.co.uk, 2009).
Reference: Guardian.co.uk http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/oct/04/arctic-seas-turn-to-acid
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