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Climatologists: By 2100, the Earth Will Have an Entirely Different Ocean

Posted by samzenpus on from the it's-getting-hot-in-here dept.

merbs writes: The ocean is in the midst of radical, manmade change. It can seem kind of crazy that one of the most immense properties on Earth—the ocean washes over 71 percent of the planet—could be completely transformed by a swarm of comparatively tiny, fleshy mammals. But humans are indeed remaking the ocean, in almost every conceivable way. The ocean we know today—that billions swim, fish, float, and surf in—that vast planetary body of water will be of an entirely different character by the end of the century: hotter, higher, trashier, and more acidic.

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  1. Re:Don't worry! by MightyMartian · · Score: 5, Informative

    The oceans are already measurably warmer and more acidic, you fucking idiot.

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  2. Re:They Lie by serviscope_minor · · Score: 5, Informative

    I don't believe you.

    Then you're an idiot.

    In the 70's it was going to be an ice age,

    Nope, never happened. Oooh I see you're confusing journalists in the popular press floundering around with actual science. Do you do that with computer stuff too, or do you only level your skepticism on things you truly don't understand?

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

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