Ocean scientists sound the alarm. Chemical
oceanographer Dr. Jeremy Mathis and a team of researchers at the
University of Fairbanks Alaska in the USA have found that the rising
acidity of northern ocean waters has decreased its ability to absorb
calcium and aragonite.
These minerals are vital for
shell-bearing animals, with related studies already demonstrating that
the region’s king crabs suffer higher mortality rates as ocean acidity
increases.
Meanwhile, oceanographer Dr. Jack Barth and
colleagues at Oregon State University have also expressed concern about
the effect of global warming on the Pacific Ocean, having observed that
hypoxic, or low oxygen, regions have expanded.
Recently, species
such as Dungeness crabs, sea stars and sea anemones have been seen
dying off in massive numbers due to oxygen deprivation. Moreover,
noxious bacteria thrive in these conditions.
Highlighting the
forecast of such events from previous climate change models, Dr. Barth
stated, “The real surprise is how this has become the new norm. We are
seeing it year after year.”
Dr. Mathis, Dr. Barth and colleagues
at the University of Fairbanks and Oregon State University, we
appreciate your detailed studies and share your concern about this
disruption to ocean ecospheres.
Let us all quickly join hands in
meaningful actions to halt climate change and protect all lives on our
planet. Supreme Master Ching Hai has often expressed concern about the
grave state of the oceans while also highlighting the solution for the
entire planet, as during a May 2009 videoconference in Togo.
Supreme Master Ching Hai:
Scientists are now concerned that dead zones like this will just
continue to be more and more, get bigger and bigger, which of course is
lethal for all life.
From the oceans themselves, we are seeing
warming temperatures, rising sea levels, increasing acidification and
terrible levels of pollution. So global warming is affecting the oceans,
which in turn is affecting the fish.
This is an equally urgent
situation as the one presented by livestock industry, and it has the
exact same solution. Stop eating the flesh; stop killing for food; stop
eating the fish. This will help restore the balance of both the ocean
and land, immediately.
http://www.csmonitor.com/Environment/Global-Warming/2009/1204/global-warming-increases-acidity-in-alaskan-seashttp://www.sfos.uaf.edu/directory/faculty/mathis/http://news.xinhuanet.com/english2010/sci/2010-03/08/c_13201667.htm
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