{"id":1380,"date":"2012-03-07T12:40:09","date_gmt":"2012-03-07T17:40:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/?p=1380"},"modified":"2012-03-07T12:42:00","modified_gmt":"2012-03-07T17:42:00","slug":"science-ocean-acidifying-so-fast-it-threatens-humanitys-ability-to-feed-itself-thinkprogress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/2012\/03\/science-ocean-acidifying-so-fast-it-threatens-humanitys-ability-to-feed-itself-thinkprogress\/","title":{"rendered":"Science: Ocean Acidifying So Fast It Threatens Humanitys Ability to Feed Itself"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>That is to say, it\u2019s not just that acidifying oceans spell marine biological meltdown \u201cby end of century\u201d\u00a0as a 2010\u00a0Geological Society study put it. We are also warming the ocean and decreasing dissolved oxygen concentration. That is a recipe for mass extinction. A 2009 Nature Geoscience study found that ocean dead zones \u201cdevoid of fish and seafood\u201d are poised to expand and \u201cremain for thousands of years.\u201cAnd remember, we just learned from a 2012 new\u00a0Nature Climate Change study that carbon dioxide is \u201cdriving fish crazy\u201d and threatening their survival.<\/p>\n<p>READ MORE:<\/p>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/romm\/2012\/03\/02\/436193\/science-ocean-acidifying-so-fast-it-threatens-humanity-ability-to-feed-itself\/\">Science: Ocean Acidifying So Fast It Threatens Humanitys Ability to Feed Itself | ThinkProgress<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr\/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>That is to say, it\u2019s not just that acidifying oceans spell marine biological meltdown \u201cby end of century\u201d\u00a0as a 2010\u00a0Geological Society study put it. We are also warming the ocean and decreasing dissolved oxygen concentration. That is a recipe for mass extinction. A 2009 Nature Geoscience study found that ocean dead zones \u201cdevoid of fish&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[257,22,18],"tags":[908,907,910,906,909],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1380"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1380"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1380\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1382,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1380\/revisions\/1382"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}