October 23, 2012 — On Monday, Congress was called on by a leading environmental organization to address the increasing threat to sea life that has been caused by decades of warming ocean temperatures and C02 pollution.
The action by Center for Biological Diversity included submitting a detailed letter to the House of Natural Resources Committee, the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation, and the Senate Environmental and Public Works Committee.
The Center’s letter asked for a hearing focused on solutions that would curb carbon pollution, which threatens fish, corals, sea otters and other marine life; from the smallest microbes to the largest whales.
Moreover, ocean acidification threatens the world’s shellfish and seafood supply, which many people around the globe depend on for food and income.
Ocean acidification, referred to by scientists as the evil spawn of global warming— because emissions from burning coal and fossil fuels get trapped in the atmosphere— is caused when too much carbon dioxide is absorbed into the world’s seas and oceans.
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