Ocean Acidification

Ocean acidification is discussed in Melody Jue: Ocean Memory as both a shell-building threat and a chemosensory threat. Melody Jue links it to abalone, sea bass smell research, weakened future sensing, and the breakdown of cultural and ecological transmission in Mandy Suzanne Wong’s abalone story.

The source’s distinctive contribution is to connect acidification to memory. If ocean chemistry changes what marine beings can smell, taste, build, or respond to, then acidification can damage Ocean Memory as well as bodies and habitats.

An "antacid" to fight climate change adds the climate-technology version. The Marketplace Tech episode says the ocean has absorbed about one-third of human carbon emissions since the start of the industrial age, making seawater more acidic and harming shellfish, corals, and other marine life. That problem becomes the context for Ocean Alkalinity Enhancement, where alkaline minerals are tested as a possible way to neutralize CO2 and store more carbon as bicarbonate.

Key Claims

• Acidification can harm shell-forming organisms and also alter chemical sensing.
• Sensory disruption can become memory disruption when organisms depend on chemical cues to identify habitat, food, risk, and prior exposure.
• The source uses acidification as a bridge between climate danger, cultural loss, and Multispecies Archives.
• Carbon-removal interventions that alter seawater chemistry must be judged against the same ecological sensitivity that makes acidification dangerous in the first place.

Connections

• Chemosensation — sensory pathway affected by changing seawater chemistry.
• Ecological Memory — adaptive response that may be weakened by changed conditions.
• Ocean Memory and Multispecies Archives — broader memory frames.
• Climate Adaptation — adjacent climate-risk concept in the wiki.
• Ocean Alkalinity Enhancement, Olivine Carbon Removal, and Marine Carbon Removal - climate-technology branch added by Marketplace Tech.