Ocean Acidification Persuasive Speech

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Imagine you finally got that vacation to the beach you’ve wanted to go to for years. The first thing on your list is to go snorkeling and look at all of the beautiful coral and fish. You get out to the ocean and you see nothing that you thought you would see. You see some coral reefs, but they are brittle and not hosting any life. This is ocean acidification. This is what humans are doing.
Ocean acidification causes coral reefs and ocean animals that make shells or skeletons to become brittle and not thrive like they should. This is just one example of many.
Throughout my time with you, I’ll inform you about what ocean acidification really is, how it’s significant towards global warming and our earth and possible ways we can help. With that, let’s sea if I can inform you of ocean acidification. …show more content…

“Well some of the impacts are already being felt.”-Will Howard: a fellow at the Australian National University School of Earth Sciences.
Ocean acidification poses grave threats to krill, plankton, shellfish and corals. This loss would impact nearly every ocean creature and shore bird.
Transition- Coming up, I’ll be talking about ocean acidification and its link towards global warming.
Since ocean acidification is on the rise, which sands shivers down my spine, we need to know the significance of it towards global warming and our earth.
The oceans slow down global warming by absorbing the extra CO2 in the atmosphere, but this is causing problems with the oceans by making them more acidic.
"There has been a 30 per cent increase in sea water acidity since the beginning of the Industrial Revolution."- Allanah Paul: researcher at the GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research
Some species may be able to adapt to ocean acidification, but certain species may also become extinct.
Lastly, I’ll tell you about possible solutions that could help solve ocean

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