Everything is Connected to Everything Else*
Artwork by Mary Tiegreen + Night Café Studio

OCEAN ACIDIFICATION

Everything is Connected to Everything Else*

Inspired by the work of Fra Angelico


The ocean holds 60 times more carbon than the atmosphere and absorbs almost 30% of carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from human activities causing the ocean to become both warmer and more acidic. The warming of Earth is primarily due to accumulation of heat-trapping greenhouse gases, and more than 90% of this trapped heat is absorbed by the oceans. 2023 set a new record for ocean heating. 

As the ocean warms through the absorption of CO2, ocean acidification accelerates. Sometimes called “osteoporosis of the sea”, it creates conditions that eat away at the minerals used by marine life to build their shells and skeletons.


For more information on this subject go to this CCR page   Ocean Warming & Acidification and

Fra Angelico (1395 – February 18, 1455), born Guido di Pietro in Vicchio, was a gifted Italian artist. Working in frescoes, he combined the religious style of the Middle Ages with the Renaissance’s artists’ ability to create the illusion of mass and space through the use of perspective. He was a Dominican friar and resided in the priory of San Domenico at Fiesole. A great number of works executed during his career are altarpieces and frescoes created for the church and the priory of San Marco in Florence while he was in residence there.


*Our title Everything Is Connected To Everything Else has been attributed to many individuals, from Leonardo da Vinci to John Muir, Jean Piaget, Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., and Daniel Patrick Moynihan. Perhaps the first to express this conceptwas German dramatist and philosopher Gotthold Ephraim Lessing who, in 1769, wrote “In nature everything is connected, everything is interwoven, everything changes with everything, everything merges from one into another.”

OCEAN ACIDIFICATION

Everything is Connected to Everything Else*

Inspired by the work of Fra Angelico


The ocean holds 60 times more carbon than the atmosphere and absorbs almost 30% of carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from human activities causing the ocean to become both warmer and more acidic. The warming of Earth is primarily due to accumulation of heat-trapping greenhouse gases, and more than 90% of this trapped heat is absorbed by the oceans. 2023 set a new record for ocean heating. 

As the ocean warms through the absorption of CO2, ocean acidification accelerates. Sometimes called “osteoporosis of the sea”, it creates conditions that eat away at the minerals used by marine life to build their shells and skeletons.


For more information on this subject go to this CCR page   Ocean Warming & Acidification and