Friday, 19 October 2012

Climate change could give oceans dinosaur-era acoustics

Pterosaur flying over water

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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