Mark at blogfish is the bearer of bad news this morning. Ocean acidification is permanent, even with reductions in CO2 (like that will ever happen).
"For all practical purposes, this is permanent," said Steven Emerson, UW oceanography professor. "That's not true of temperature. But with ocean acidification, the time scales are long."
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