[Coral-List] Seattle Times story on Ocean Acidification.

[White, Susan]

FYI - this story does a good job explaining for the lay reader the
complicated future we're creating

http://apps.seattletimes.com/reports/sea-change/2013/sep/11/pacific-ocean-perilous-turn-overview/



Susan White
Monuments Superintendent / Refuge Project Leader
Pacific Reefs National Wildlife Refuge and Monuments Complex
U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service
email:  susan_white at fws.gov<https://mail.google.com/mail/?view=cm&fs=1&tf=1&to=susan_white@fws.gov>
           ph:  808/792-9560
http://www.fws.gov/marinenationalmonuments/

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*Pacific Remote Islands Marine National Monument*
     Baker, Howland, Jarvis, Palmyra Atoll, Kingman Reef,
     Johnston Atoll, Wake Atoll National Wildlife Refuges
*Rose Atoll Marine National Monument*
     Rose Atoll National Wildlife Refuge
*Marianas Trench Marine National Monument*
     Mariana Arc of Fire, Mariana Trench National Wildlife Refuges
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Monthly mean CO2 measurement from the Mauna Loa observatory in
March 2013 was 397.34 ppm.   Mar2011 = 392.49 ppm.   Mar1958 = 315.71ppm.
*Coral Reefs may stop growing with CO2 levels at 450 ppm.  *
*                 At 550 ppm, coral reefs start to dissolve.*