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The Oceans Are Dying: Hard Statistics Reveal a Global Crisis (medium.com)
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[–] wolfyvegan@slrpnk.net 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

By the end of this century, ocean waters could be 150% more acidic than they were before the industrial era.

Most people think of acidity in terms of pH. The above statistic corresponds to a decrease of 0.4 on the pH scale. But if most people were to read that the pH would decrease by 0.4, they wouldn't know what it really meant. If Albert A. Bartlett was correct that the greatest shortcoming of the human race is their inability to understand the exponential function, then an inability to understand the logarithmic scale follows naturally from that.