Oceans in Danger

 I have just finished reading an article called Science: Ocean Acidifying So Fast It Threatens Humanity's Ability To Feed Itself from a paper.li called Future of the Earth. What interested me in reading this article was how the acid was effecting the oceans. The ocean gets the acid from the carbon in the air. When there is carbon in the air, temperature rises and carbon goes into the water faster. This process has being going on since the oceans were form. Why is there so much acid in the oceans now? Well with most people having cars, factories and what not, there is more carbon that is put in the air everyday. The temperature rises and the carbon going into the oceans increase faster then ever before.  According to the article, 300 millions ago the acids in the ocean increased just as fast as it is today. So why does it matter if it already happened once? Scientists have found some sediments from that time period. The results were that the amount of carbon in the fossils was doubled compared to other fossils in different time periods. Also scientists found a single - celled organisms that used to live on the bottom of the ocean had gone extinct because of the carbon in the water. By finding this organism the scientists suggested that the organisms that were on top of the food chain had also gone extinct. Why does this effect us? We can learn from the past so that it may not effect the future. We must pay more attention to how much carbon goes into the air and into the water that way no more marine animals can become extinct  like coral reefs and clams.