IOM Today: In 2010, a report by the US National Research Council found that pH levels the level of acidity or alkalinity at the oceans surface had fallen from a measure of 8.2 in pre-industrial times, to 8.1 in modern times.
This has taken place as something between a quarter and a third of man-made CO2 emissions have been added to the natural absorption rates of those oceans.
Since pH is measured on a logarithmic scale, this means that there has been a 10-fold decrease in alkalinity or to put...