Racing Extinction (2015)
Jason Hall-Spencer: Self - Marine Biologist, Plymouth University
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Jason Hall-Spencer - Marine Biologist, Plymouth University : The ocean's chemistry is changing really rapidly, scarily fast.
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Jason Hall-Spencer - Marine Biologist, Plymouth University : When we put carbon dioxide into the atmosphere it doesn't all stay there. Between a third and a half gets absorbed by the oceans.
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Jason Hall-Spencer - Marine Biologist, Plymouth University : I don't think it's a competition between these problems. I don't think one can be put above the other. I think it's like saying, well is global warming worse than ocean acidification or is fishing all the big fish in the sea worse than polluting it? And I think it'd be foolish to try and single out any one of them, to say This is how we're going to fix the planet's problems. We need to fight them on all fronts.
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Jason Hall-Spencer - Marine Biologist, Plymouth University : So the Arctic has been getting gradually warmer, and the methane that has been locked away for millions of years is starting to come out