From our new partners at the GOES Foundation (Global Oceanic Environmental Survey):
by Dr. Howard Dryden, GOES Founder
Nature 2010 and Nature 2011 reported that there has been a 40% drop in primary productivity in the North Atlantic since the 1950s. At the same time, oceanic pH started to decline sharply, causing seawater to acidify.  This trend may be related to an increase in industrial output and carbon dioxide emissions. However, as a marine biologist specializing in some of the largest aquarium life support systems in the world, I know that carbon dioxide is used to increase primary productivity. Woods Hole reported that an increase in carbon dioxide increased photosynthetic productivity, yet over the last 60 years there may have been a reduction by 40%.…