Friday, July 30, 2010

Acidic oceans and disappearing coral reefs

With ever increasing level of greenhouse gas being pumped into the atmosphere, the oceans too receive its grunt.The CO2 dissolving in the oceans and seas is increasing the acidity of the waters making it hard for the life sustaining,oceanic ecosystem balancing, diverse and versatile coral reefs to disappear.The current levels of the greenhouse gas 387ppm , will drastically reduce , may even wipe out coral reefs across the earth oceans by 2065.The levels has to go down below for the corals to flourish.With the disappearance of reefs and the climate change, storms will have direct effect on many coastlines causing severe damages.

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