What do you think of the threat of ocean acidification from CO2? Elizabeth Kolbert wrote in the New Yorker that it threatens the very basis of most ocean life.
The tiny plankton have soft shells that have started to dissolve from increased ocean acidity due to more CO2 in the oceans, so the story goes.
Perhaps a more measurable and dire threat than global warming.
It's a significant area of concern.
The tiny plankton have soft shells that have started to dissolve from increased ocean acidity due to more CO2 in the oceans, so the story goes.
The plankton groups that would be affected are those that form their shells out of CaCO3 (calcium carbonate). Diatoms, which are siliceous, are probably OK. But corals would also be affected.