While researching the impact of climate change on ocean life for a title I am writing for Marshall Cavendish Benchmark I have to admit that I was shocked. I thought I knew a lot about climate change but the magnitude of the effects on one of the biggest regulators of Earth's climate, the OCEAN, is something that everyone should be aware of. Along with sea level rises, which are occurring largely due to the thermal expansion properties of water (with help from land ice melt), one of the great threats is ocean acidification which has a harmful effect on the ability of shelled organisms to make their calcium shells. Sea horses, oysters, crabs, lobsters and a host of others are developing with thinner, more vulnerable shells.
The image to the left is a clip of an illustration I created for the first title in another series that I am writing and illustrating for ABDO Publishing on the same topic. The marine animals are all talking about climate change.