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First International Symposium, “The Ocean in a High-CO2 World"
First International Symposium, "The Ocean in a High-CO2 World", is held. The symposium "brought together 120 of the world’s leading scientists from 18 countries with expertise from different branches of marine biology, chemistry and physics to piece together what is known about the impacts of ocean acidification on marine ecosystems, and to identify urgent research priorities to understand the mechanisms, magnitude and time scale of these impacts." -
Royal Society report
(full report)The Royal Society of London for Improving Natural Knowledge releases a report that identified an increaaing carbon dioxide level in the atmosphere causing a decrease in the pH levels in the world's oceans. -
German Advisory Council on Global Change releases special report
(full report)German Advisory Council on Global Change (WBGU) releases a report that introduces new facts about the continuing threat of ocean acidification, and provides innovative solutions to help reduce further damage to the ocean's ecosystems. -
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's Fourth Assessment Report on climate change.
(full report)The IPCC releases it's "Fourth Assessment Report" on climite change. "The report is the largest and most detailed summary of the climate change situation ever undertaken, produced by thousands of authors, editors, and reviewers from dozens of countries, citing over 6,000 peer-reviewed scientific studies." The report states that the data available points unequivicolly to the potentially devestating effects of climate change if no preventitive actions are taken. -
International Climate Science Coalition is formed.
This coalition of scientists encourages "assisting vulnerable peoples to adapt to climate variability and continuing scientific research into the causes and impacts of climate change.
ICSC also focuses on publicizing the repercussions of misguided plans to “solve the climate crisis”. " -
"The Myth of Dangerous Human Caused Climate Change"
A scientific paper written by scientist and climate change skeptic Robert Carter. The paper was presented at an AusIMM New Leaders Conference. -
First International Conference on Climate Change
This "international conference", hosted by the wealthy think-tank Heartland Institute, included one hundred speakers and panelists from many countries who came together in order to show that leading scientists and economists from around the world do in fact dispute the claim that global warming, and therefore, ocean acidification is a crisis. -
Second International Symposium, "The Ocean in a High-CO2 World”
"The meeting brought together 220 scientists from 32 countries to assess what is known about ocean acidification impacts on marine chemistry and ecosystems." -
Monaco Declaration
(full report)(A call to action, based on the findings of the Second International Symposium on The Ocean in a High C02 world, is released. The Monaco Declaration is a report issued by 155 recognized scientists on the rising danger of ocean acidification, which urges swift and drastic emissions cuts worldwide as a way of avoiding future catastrophes. -
IAP statement
(link)IAP releases a statement backed by 70+ other scientific institutions around the globe confirming the existence of ocean acidification as an environmental concern. -
The think-tank The Global Warming Policy Foundation is launched.
This foundation claims to have an open mind in regards to the effects of climate change anddoes not have an official policy or stance on the validity of such claims. They are a foundation dedicated dicovering "the possible effects of any future global warming and the policy responses that may evoke." -
National Science Foundation Awards grants to study ocean acidification.
21 grants were awarded By the NSF under the Ocean Acidification theme of its Climate Research Investment to various universities, scientific institutions, and individuals. the projects funded by these grants are designed to "foster research on the nature, extent and effects of ocean acidification on marine environments and organisms in the past, present and future--from tropical systems to icy seas." -
Larval Oyster Failure in Hatcheries
Research published in the Journal of Limnology and Oceanography "definitively links the collapse of oyster seed production at a commercial oyster hatchery in Oregon to an increase in ocean acidification."
