Acid Quote by Mark Powell

As we pump greenhouse gases into our atmosphere, the ocean absorbs carbon dioxide, making the seawater acidic and hostile for shellfish and corals.

— Barry Gardiner

Carbon dioxide pollution is transforming the chemistry of the ocean, rapidly making the water more acidic. In decades, rising ocean acidity may challenge life…

— Sigourney Weaver

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

— Sylvia Earle

Changing the world's oceans to increase their uptake of CO2, as other geoengineering solutions propose, is equally dangerous, as the increased resulting acidity of…

— Graciela Chichilnisky

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

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

If you're overfishing at the top of the food chain, and acidifying the ocean at the bottom, you're creating a squeeze that could conceivably…

— Carl Safina

I am convinced, by repeated observation, that marbles, lime-stones, chalks, marls, clays, sand, and almost all terrestrial substances, wherever situated, are full of shells…

— Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon

The oceans that surround the world produce 185 billion tons of CO2 per annum. Man per annum only produces six billion tons, so what…

— John Raese

We need to do a better job of keeping oceans healthy.

— Sigourney Weaver

As we burn fossil fuels, we release carbon dioxide, much of which is absorbed by the oceans.

— Tatiana Schlossberg

The simple fact that half of the oxygen that we breathe is produced by the oceans should be reason enough to mobilize around the…

— Albert II, Prince of Monaco