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Copenhagen climate conference: ocean acidification could leave one billion hungry

More than one billion people could suffer food shortages because of ocean acidification unless climate change is tackled, Hilary Benn has warned.

Prepare for the tidal wave of 'ocean acidification' bores. But surely the ocean is going to be covered in a film of oil isn't it? That was the fashionable scare story a few years ago. Which is it then? Oil or acidification? There's only one way to find out...