21 February 2022
Most Published Studies Exaggerated the Effects of Ocean Acidification
The concept of ocean acidification, and human-caused global warming more generally, could be described as containing a grain of truth embedded in a mountain of nonsense. Indeed, the projected large increase in atmospheric CO2 will at most cause a small reduction in pH – it will not turn the ocean acidic. Yet this is what is implied by the term
20 February 2018
Ocean Acidification: Not Yet a Catastrophe for the Great Barrier Reef
The following is an excerpt from chapter 2 in Climate Change: The Facts 2017, published by the IPA in 2017. A PDF of the full chapter is available here, and the book can be purchased here. There has been an exponential increase in research on the topic of ocean acidification, which broadly concerns chemical changes in the ocean in response
