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"For more than a decade, teams led by Richard Feely, a chemical oceanographer at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory in Seattle, have traveled from Antarctica to the Aleutian Islands, taking tens of thousands of water samples to gauge how the ocean's acidity is changing.
In April, Feely returned from a cruise to the North Pacific, where he took pH measurements at locations the team first sampled in 1991. This time, Feely's group found that the average pH in surface waters had dropped an additional 0.025 units in 15 years -- a relatively large change for such a short time."
I was taking the water samples for Dr. Feely and other researchers on the southern leg of this cruise.....the information gathered is pretty impressive and convincing, we have essentially destroyed our planet and the chances of restoring it are slim.
great post fisheye, i hope more people are conservation minded and take actions into their own hands. unfortunately i don't see it happening. rhode island is a good start, but with the trash and destruction inland its a long road ahead.
we need to each do our part, and try to pass on to the next generation. but will a small group of fishermen help in the long run?
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