{"id":218214,"date":"2009-12-04T15:49:06","date_gmt":"2009-12-04T20:49:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/colli239.fts.educ.msu.edu\/?p=21491"},"modified":"2009-12-04T15:49:06","modified_gmt":"2009-12-04T20:49:06","slug":"average-ph-levels-in-world%e2%80%99s-oceans-have-fallen-from-8-21-at-start-of-industrial-age-to-an-average-8-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/218214","title":{"rendered":"Average pH Levels in World\u2019s Oceans Have Fallen from 8.21 at Start of Industrial Age to an Average 8.1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-21490\" title=\"800px-Boat_on_the_Arctic_Sea_-_August_2006\" src=\"http:\/\/colli239.fts.educ.msu.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/800px-Boat_on_the_Arctic_Sea_-_August_2006-520x390.jpg\" alt=\"800px-Boat_on_the_Arctic_Sea_-_August_2006\" width=\"520\" height=\"390\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>2009Dec4: <\/strong>Average pH levels in the world\u2019s oceans have fallen from 8.21 at the start of the Industrial Age to an average 8.1 on the 1-to-14 pH scale, according to the IPCC (CS Monitor). A pH of 7 is neutral. A pH less than 7 is acidic. A pH greater than 7 is basic.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Reference: <\/strong>Christian Science Monitor <a href=\"http:\/\/features.csmonitor.com\/environment\/2009\/12\/04\/global-warming-increases-acidity-in-alaskan-seas\/\" >http:\/\/features.csmonitor.com\/environment\/2009\/12\/04\/global-warming-increases-acidity-in-alaskan-seas\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Image Description:<\/strong> Boat on the Arctic Sea. August 2006. Photo by Ville Miettinen. Image Location: Wikimedia Commons <a href=\"http:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File:Boat_on_the_Arctic_Sea_-_August_2006.jpg\" >http:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File:Boat_on_the_Arctic_Sea_-_August_2006.jpg<\/a> Image Permission: This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 License.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2009Dec4: Average pH levels in the world\u2019s oceans have fallen from 8.21 at the start of the Industrial Age to an average 8.1 on the 1-to-14 pH scale, according to the IPCC (CS Monitor). A pH of 7 is neutral. A pH less than 7 is acidic. A pH greater than 7 is basic. Reference: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-218214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218214","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=218214"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218214\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=218214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=218214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=218214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}