Saturday July 03, 2010
An acid trip no one wants to go on
Caroline Ash
New Statesman
In 1910, Dr Crippen, an American homoeopathic physician living in London, attempted to dispose of the remains of his wife, Cora, by dissolving her torso in a bath of acid. It might be hard to imagine, but the world's ocean is turning into a warm acid bath because of excess carbon dioxide in our atmosphere.
Carbon dioxide gas not only creates a greenhouse effect but also dissolves in seawater to form carbonic acid. Fortunately for humankind, the capacity of the sea to absorb the gas has offset the problem of warming from fossil-fuel emissions.
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