Question

Global climate change is the result of increasing levels of carbon dioxide, methane, and other greenhouse gases in Earth's atmosphere. How are the causes of ocean acidification and climate change related to one another?

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Explanation:

Before we proceed to explain the relation between the two, we need to understand what these terms are.

Acidification of the ocean simply refers to an increase in the acidic content of the ocean due to increased level of dissolved carbon iv oxide.

When we talk of climate change, we are talking about the overall and continual change of the atmospheric conditions of the Earth.

The reason why there is a climate change increase is because the atmosphere which is supposed to serve as a sink for green house gases is not serving this purpose and as such there is a retention of the green house gases such as carbon iv oxide within the sun-atmospheric level on the earth.

These green house gases such as carbon iv oxide which does not find a way out of the earth’s atmosphere will be retained in bodies within the earth crust serving as a sink for them. An example of this sink is the ocean which thus takes in the carbon iv oxide which when dissolved increases the acidic content of the ocean causing acidification