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====Ongezeko la asidi====
Kuongezeka kwa asidi baharini ni chanzo cha kuongzeka kwa kiwango cha [[Kaboni daioksaidi|CO<sub>2</sub>]] in the atmosphere, and is not a direct consequence of [[global warming]]. The oceans soak up much of the CO<sub>2</sub> produced by living organisms, either as dissolved gas, or in the skeletons of tiny marine creatures that fall to the bottom to become chalk or limestone. Oceans currently absorb about one tonne of CO<sub>2</sub> per person per year. It is estimated that the oceans have absorbed around half of all CO<sub>2</sub> generated by human activities since 1800 (118 ± 19 petagrams of carbon from 1800 to 1994).<ref name="Sabine2004">{{cite journal |last=Sabine |first=Christopher L. |authorlink= |coauthors=''et al.'' |year=2004 |month= |title=The Oceanic Sink for Anthropogenic CO<sub>2</sub> |journal=Science |volume=385 |issue=5682 |pages=367–371 |doi=10.1126/science.1097403 |url= |accessdate= |quote=|pmid=15256665 }}</ref>▼
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▲Kuongezeka kwa asidi baharini ni chanzo cha
Mnamo tarehe Novemba mwaka wa 2009 katika makala katika jarida la ''Science'' yaliyoandikwa na wanasayansi katika Idara ya Uvuvi na Bahari katika eneo la Kanada yaliripoti kuwa yalikuwa yamepata viwango vidogo sana vya vitalu vya ujenzi vya kalsiamu kloraidi inayojenga mifupa ya planktoni katika Ziwa la Beaufort.<ref name=Canwest2009-11-20>
▲There are concerns that increasing acidification could have a particularly detrimental effect on [[coral]]s<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.opendemocracy.net/globalization-climate_change_debate/2558.jsp |title=Global warming and coral reefs|auithor=Thomas J Goreau|publisher=Open Democracy |date=2005-05-30 |accessdate=2007-12-29}}</ref> (16% of the world's coral reefs have died from bleaching caused by warm water in 1998,<ref name="Walther2002">{{cite journal |last=Walther |first=Gian-Reto |authorlink= |coauthors=''et al.'' |year=2002 |month= |title=Ecological responses to recent climate change |journal=Nature |volume=416 |issue=6879 |pages=389–395 |doi=10.1038/416389a |url= |accessdate= |quote= }}</ref> which coincidentally was the warmest year ever recorded) and other marine organisms with [[calcium carbonate]] shells.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2006/07/05/acidocean_pla.html |title=Rising Ocean Acidity Threatens Reefs | author=Larry O'Hanlon |publisher=Discovery News |date=2006-07-05 |accessdate=2007-12-29}}</ref>
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Fiona McLaughlin, mmoja wa waandishi wa DFO, alidokeza kuwa ongezeko la asidi katika Bahari ya Aktiki lilikuwa karibu kufikia kiwango ambapo kingeanza kumumunyisha nyuta za planktoni zilizopo: ''"mfumo wa kiikolojia wa eneo la Aktiki upo hatarini. Kwa kweli, utamumunyisha mifupa ya wanyama hao."''
Kwa sababu baridi inachukua ndani CO<sub>2</sub> kwa urahisi zaidi kuliko maji yenye joto zaidi asidi ni nyingi zaidi katika maeneo ya ncha za ulimwengu. McLaughlin alitabiri ongezeko la asidi litasafiri hadi eneo la Atlantiki ya Kaskazini katika kipindi cha miaka kumi ijayo.
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