Prof. James Lovelock talks about the fate of humanity.
This has nothing to do with global warming but ...
Carbon in the ocean is changing its chemistry; coral reefs are in danger and creatures with shells may be destroyed.
CO2 enters the ocean as a dissolved gas, it reacts with the sea water and it is making the ocean more acidic.
Since the pre-industrial 1800s to the present, the ocean's acidity has increased by about 0.1 pH units.
[This really is an effect independent of global warming. As we show in the Arctic, global warming can make the problem even worse. – Dr Richard Matear at CSIRO in Hobart has published his research in Nature, and there's more to come.]
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