Nature - Acidic Seawater (@ 600, 1,000 PPM Equivalent) = Organ Deformity, Death In Embryonic Fish

[Bob Wallace]

2. I'm reluctant to make this post...

because I'm afraid someone will think I'm trying to minimize the problem of increasing acidification, but here goes...

The study is flawed. It uses an abrupt change in pH. What is going to (likely) happen is a rapid but not instantaneous change.

The study found survivors. Does that mean that there is genetic stock which over a few generations might allow species adaptation? If they lowered the pH a lesser amount and bred the survivors, then lowered the pH again, bred the survivors, etc. would they end up with cod that can tolerate "our new oceans"?

We're seeing birds change size as temperatures change.