Many researchers have found that the oceans are becoming more acidic quicker than what it did in the past 300 million years.
Due to an increase in the carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere it might impact the oceans making it turn more acidic. A portion of greenhouse gas enters the oceans and when it dissolves, oceans are turned acidic due to chemical reactions.
Scientists have said the Cretaceous period was caused due to underwater acoustic conditions, which is more likely to happen if the acidity in the oceans rises.
David G. Browning, an acoustician at the University of Rhode Island, said in a statement. "We call it the Cretaceous acoustic effect, because ocean acidification forced by global warming appears to be leading us back to the similar ocean acoustic conditions as those that existed 110 million years ago, during the Age of Dinosaurs."
When carbon dioxide mixes with water it turns into carbon acid which results in making the water more acidic. If the pH level drops it means more acidity which might also impact the performance of sonar systems. Browning says it is important to know about this in many ways.
He said in a statement: "It impacts the design and performance prediction of sonar systems. It affects estimation of low-frequency ambient noise levels in the ocean. And it's something we have to consider to improve our understanding of the sound environment of marine mammals and the effects of human activity on that environment."
Bärbel Hönisch, a paleoceanographer at Columbia University's Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, also highlights the impact might also extinct some organisms.
"We know that life during past ocean acidification events was not wiped out - new species evolved to replace those that died off. But if industrial carbon emissions continue at the current pace, we may lose organisms we care about - coral reefs, oysters, salmon," Hönisch said in a news release.
