Global Warming Plan Could Harm Sea Animals
From Times staff and wire reports
A new study suggests that the idea of offsetting global warming by storing liquid carbon dioxide in the ocean may pose a serious threat to deep-sea animals. There are no current plans to use the technique, but it has been suggested as a possible way to rid the atmosphere of industrially produced carbon dioxide, which contributes to greenhouse warming.
In the Oct. 12 Science, marine ecologist Brad Seibel of the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute suggests that carbon dioxide could alter the chemistry of seawater and inhibit the survival, growth and reproduction of deep sea microbes, fish and invertebrates.
