{"id":76,"date":"2003-10-07T23:07:00","date_gmt":"2003-10-07T23:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/?p=76"},"modified":"2011-05-01T18:34:07","modified_gmt":"2011-05-01T23:34:07","slug":"get-the-oceans-some-tums","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/?p=76","title":{"rendered":"get the oceans some tums"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The world&#8217;s oceans may be becoming more acidic due  to the burning of fossil fuels, say  researchers in the Sept. 25  <em>Nature.<\/em> Ken Caldeira and Michael E. Wickett from the Lawrence Livermore  National Laboratory in California used a computer model to predict what  would happen if carbon dioxide emissions remained at current levels over  the next few hundred years. As fossil fuels are burned, carbon dioxide  is released in the air, most of which is dissolved by the ocean, forming  carbonic acid and lowering its pH. The researchers believe that this  change in the ocean&#8217;s pH could harm marine life, particularly coral  reefs and other organisms whose calcium carbonate shells and skeletons  may dissolve in a more acidic environment. The researchers warn that  &#8220;unabated carbon dioxide emissions over the coming centuries may produce  changes in ocean pH that are greater than any experienced over the past  300 million years, with the exception of those resulting from rare,  catastrophic events in Earth&#8217;s history,&#8221; such as a giant asteroid  strike. <\/span><\/p>\n<h6><em>This news brief appeared in the Random Data column of the <\/em>Boston Globe&#8217;s<em> Health\/Science section on 10\/07\/2003.<\/em><\/h6>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The world&#8217;s oceans may be becoming more acidic due to the burning of fossil fuels, say researchers in the Sept. 25 Nature. Ken Caldeira and Michael E. Wickett from the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California used a computer model &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/?p=76\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-boston-globe-3","category-news-briefs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=76"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1132,"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76\/revisions\/1132"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=76"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=76"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agnieszkabiskup.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=76"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}