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Originally Posted by erps View Post
Climate modelers predicted greenhouse gases would make marine waters more acidic by century's end. They expected to notice it first in deep water, some of which hasn't circulated to the surface in 1,500 years and has therefore accumulated more atmospheric carbon dioxide. And deep waters already run higher in carbon dioxide because dying plants, animals and fish sink and decay.

Let me see..........My CO2 went down to the water that has not come up for 1500 years.........I don't get it. How does CO2 transfer to the water and what is the pathway once it is dissolved? Does it sink?
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