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Last updated: Thursday, 22 January 2026
Meet the Evil Twin - Ocean Acidification - January 7, 2026 - New science shows ocean acidification has already passed the safety limit set by the Planetary Boundary Framework. We reached a founder in the field, recently retired NOAA Senior Research Scientist Dr. Richard Feely. That is coming up, but first an introduction from Biological Oceanographer and Lead Author Dr. Helen Findlay from the UK’s Plymouth Marine Laboratory. Even if carbon dioxide was not a greenhouse gas, our emissions would seriously damage the majority of Earth’s life. Humans cannot directly see it. Acidification involves science few people have. No industry or even special interest gains by communicating this threat. Ocean acidification has been called “the evil twin of global warming”.