Since the dawn of the Industrial Revolution the Earths oceans have been absorbing carbon dioxide from fuel emissions. But recently the oceans have become less efficient at absorbing these carbon dioxide emissions. Since the 1950's the oceans have been a good carbon dioxide sink for us but since the 1980's it has been slowing down proving that it will not be able to last forever. The more carbon dioxide the ocean absorbs the more acidic it becomes and then the less it will end up being able to absorb. Even though the human carbon dioxide emissions have increase the carbon dioxide sink in the ocean has become less and not increased like expected.
It is bad that we need to use our own oceans as carbon dioxide sinks because we are producing to much green house gases. If the ocean is slowing down in absorbing carbon dioxide emissions it is just showing us that we need to cut back on the amount of carbon dioxide that we are putting into the air. We need to cut back and try to restore the oceans to what they where 50 to 60 years ago.
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