Image via WikipediaHead over to the White Stag block for an important talk about what is perhaps the most insidious, scary part of pumping millions of tons of carbon into the atmosphere: It makes the oceans into big vats of carbonic acid, acid that eats at the base of the food chain at the most vulnerable point.
Ocean Acidification Event in Portland
Learn more about our "other" carbon problem.
Care about the Pacific Northwest’s oceans? Worried our fossil-fuel addiction is jeopardizing our marine and shellfish industries? Learn more about
ocean acidification in the Northwest at E2′s event, the Acid Test: Ocean Acidification and the Pacific Northwest.
Speakers will include Washington Representative Brian Baird, NRDC oceans attorney Leila Monroe, and commercial fisherman Amy Grondin. E2 will also screen NRDC’s new short film, Acid Test: The Global Challenge of Ocean Acidification.
Where: White Stag Block, University of Oregon – Portland
When: Monday, September 12, 6:00-8:00 PM.
More info.
It’ll be a great, informative event about the Northwest’s “other” carbon problem.
Image via WikipediaHead over to the White Stag block for an important talk about what is perhaps the most insidious, scary part of pumping millions of tons of carbon into the atmosphere: It makes the oceans into big vats of carbonic acid, acid that eats at the base of the food chain at the most vulnerable point.
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