Hawaii feels so passionately about climate. You know, our…

Worldwide, our oceans are warming, rising, and becoming dangerously acidic as a result of carbon pollution and climate change - endangering much that we…

— Sheldon Whitehouse

For 10 years, I have fought passionately for climate protection.

— Angela Merkel

In Congress, I am focused on the effects of climate change, including ocean acidification and sea-level rise - both of which are threats to…

— Scott Peters

With our evolved busy hands and our evolved busy brains, in an extraordinarily short period of time we've managed to alter the earth with…

— Kate Bernheimer

I believe that climate change is real, is driven mainly by human activity and that it is driving real-world changes such as extreme weather…

— Jeff Van Drew

If we return abruptly to a Miocene-like climate, it's reasonable to think that we would experience a lot of extinctions, and maybe even a…

— Annalee Newitz

Nothing is as daunting as the threats associated with global warming. That's the biggie. Everyone bangs on about rising sea levels but the real…

— Tim Winton

Ocean acidification looks suspiciously like a back-up plan by the environmental pressure groups in case the climate fails to warm: another try at condemning…

— Matt Ridley

Coral reefs, the rain forest of the ocean, are home for one-third of the species of the sea. Coral reefs are under stress for…

— James Hansen

Centuries-old habitats such as coral gardens are destroyed in an instant by bottom trawls, pulverized by weighted nets into barren plains. And global carbon…

— Ted Danson

“Ocean acidification is sometimes referred to as global warming’s “equally evil twin.”

— Elizabeth Kolbert

Ocean acidification - the excess carbon dioxide in the atmosphere that is turning the oceans increasingly acid - is a slow but accelerating impact…

— Sylvia Earle

Our biggest challenges for the ocean and for the planet are problems of perception. People need to understand that species extinctions, habitat destruction, ocean…

— Edith Widder

The burning of fossil fuels has altered the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere so rapidly and so abundantly that now, we are…

— Sylvia Earle

There are ecosystems like coral reefs [at risk] through ocean acidification. Those are valuable things that we should protect.

— Bill Gates