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Originally Posted by PeteMoss
Which thing that is happening to the oceans?
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Three things, really. The first is a tie in to the discussion above, which is ocean acidification. I'll add an easy 10 minute TEDtalk on that below. That is directly effected through CO2, and solving one could solve the other.
The second that I can think of are chemicals and plastics being disposed of in the oceans. This is directly related to consumption and education, and is a fixable problem, although there is no money in fixing it, so very little is happening here, other than the odd feelgood story.
The third is the use of the oceans as a sewer. Wrap your mind around how many people do exactly what and send it down rivers or directly into the sea, on a daily basis. There have been recent studies in Seattle and Vancouver about local effects of this practice, and that is from a very tiny population compared to the population doing this. There is a great little documentary about the combination of this plus overfishing in the southeast asian islands, and what it has done over the last twenty years. It goes from oceans teeming with life to the same oceans (at the same time of year) virtually dead. It was amazing, but I can't find it now.
Anyway, a climate scientist probably has a list of thirty instead of three.