While $1 trillion may sound like a huge figure, but we need to consider the benefits derived from marine biodiversity to many major industries. Ocean acidification will greatly affect food security in the coming years, as well as tourism and other industries such as the pharmaceutical industry which relies on many marine organisms said Salvatore Arico, the Programme Specialist for Biodiversity at the UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) According to this UN report, delivered the UN Convention on Biological Diversity in Pyeongchang, South Korea, the amount of carbon dioxide dissolved in the worlds oceans has risen by around 26 per cent since pre-industrial times. This has caused the oceans pH level to drop from 8.2 down to 8.1, and if we continue to release billions of tons of CO2 into the atmosphere that amount will continue to rise and the pH of the ocean water will continue to drop. As the video below shows, just that 0.1 pH difference over the past 150 years or so has been enough to tip the scales of the mineral balance in the water, to a point where the ocean environment is on the cusp between shell building and shell dissolving. For more info check: theweathernetwork/news/articles/ocean-acidification-could-cost-the-world-up-to-1-trillion-annually-warns-un-report/37530/ youtube/watch?v=MgdlAt4CR-4
Posted on: Sat, 11 Oct 2014 09:47:06 +0000
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