OCEAN “ACIDIFICATION” ALARMISM IN PERSPECTIVE
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FRONTIER CENTRE FOR PUBLIC POLICY<br />
adapting to high levels of CO 2<br />
in a very short time. It also<br />
indicates that this same species would not even notice<br />
the relatively slow rate at which CO 2<br />
is increasing in the<br />
atmosphere today.<br />
The changes that have occurred to the Earth’s climate<br />
over the past 300 years since the peak of the Little Ice Age<br />
around 1700 are in no way unusual or unique in history.<br />
During the past 3,000 years, a blink in geological time, there<br />
has been a succession of warm periods and cool periods.<br />
There is no record of species extinction due to climatic<br />
change during these periods.<br />
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