EPOCA to study increasing ocean acid levels; but how is CO2 increasing when temperatures on the rise?

In France, EPOCA, the European Project on Ocean Acidification, will launch in Nice next month. The project takes up the subject of the increase in CO2 levels in the oceans. The group says 25 million tons of CO2 is absorbed by the oceans each day. However, the group reports that CO2 levels are rising, causing a harmful buildup on acid levels in the water. What makes this curious is that the ocean’s ability to absorb CO2 decreases when water temperature rises. The group’s formation raises the intriguing possibility that other forces besides global warming are at work in the oceans.

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