Climate Change

I found it interesting how they were able to tell there was a change happening. Based on the carbon dioxide in the ocean, you can see the environment change, and the different species that once lived in that environment would disappear. I was a little confused as to why only a certain area was being affected and another close by was not. I would have assumed that the entire ocean would get affected slowly not just one spot quickly and the other not at all. I do not know how I feel about the way climate change is being handled. Scientists make it seem like the climate and environment changes on its own anyway. They are just calculating the acidic behavior of the ocean and how fast it is changing, but they do not talk about how we could ever make it stop. They also state that we have to try and slow it down, but it does not seem like there was a way for us to really do that.

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