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When will the ocean be too salty?

Asked by Dkallenborn (4points) May 23rd, 2016 from iPhone

When will the oceans become too salty to support life

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Love_my_doggie's avatar

The oceans have stayed at about 3% salt for hundreds of millions of years. The seas are salty but don’t get any saltier.

cazzie's avatar

They do get more acidic, though.

Call_Me_Jay's avatar

Glaciers and polar ice are melting, they are getting less salty.

cazzie's avatar

@Call Me Jay it’s weirdly more complicated than that. Salination falls and flows in strata in the ocean. It doesn’t mix up and become as uniform a solution as one might first think.

babaji's avatar

Long time I think.
Global warming will keep it at bay for awhile,
with the melting away of the ice caps.

But who knows, with all of the radioactive stuff from some reactors,
there are changes happening that we still aren’t aware of.

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