Acidification due to global warming could lead to oceans with similar acoustic properties to those experienced by the dinosaurs of the Cretaceous period.
According to a presentation given by acoustics researchers David G Browning and Peter M Scheifele as part of the 164th meeting of the Acoustical Society of America changes to the baseline acidity of the world's oceans due to global warming will have a negative effect on the absorption of low frequency sounds.
By: Philippa Warr, Edited by: Liat Clark
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via Wired.co.uk
http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2012-10/19/dinosaur-era-ocean-acoustics
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