Many bloggers are writing about a group of marine ecologists who have recently found that the ocean is becoming more acidic due to increased levels of carbon dioxide in earth's atmosphere. The marine ecologists ran simulations in a fake "ocean" by adding carbon dioxide at the future predicted rates. The results were upsetting. The increased acidity in the "ocean" killed off a certain type of sulfur-consuming bacteria. Without this bacteria, there will be "a significant impact on the ocean’s productivity and the overall global climate system." This means that not only the oceans would be effected, but humans would also be effected by this change.
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