The societal challenge of ocean acidification

• Published in: Marine Pollution Bulletin
• Main Authors: Turley, C., Eby, M., Ridgwell, A.J., Schmidt, D.N., Findlay, H.S., Brownlee, C., Riebesell, Ulf, Fabry, V.J., Feely, R.A., Gattuso, J.-P.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Elsevier 2010
• Subjects: Bates; Carbonic acid; Ocean acidification
• Online Access: https://oceanrep.geomar.de/id/eprint/10199/; https://oceanrep.geomar.de/id/eprint/10199/1/MarPolBul.pdf; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpolbul.2010.05.006

The carbonate chemistry of the world’s oceans, including their pH, has been remarkably constant for hundreds of thousands of years (Pearson and Palmer, 2000), with typical surface ocean variations between ice ages and warm phases of no more than 0.2 pH units ([Sanyal et al., 1995], [Hönisch and Hemm...