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1. How long has Ted Danson, TV star of Cheers and CSI, been an ocean-environmental advocate?

2. What is the background of his co-author, Michael D’Orso?

3. Do all of the carbon gases (carbon dioxide and, from car exhausts, carbon monoxide) remain in the earth’s atmosphere to cause global warming to the extent that the modern production of carbon gases overwhelms the capacity of earth’s plant life to combine the carbon gases with water to convert them back into sugar and oxygen through photosynthesis?

4. What happens to the 30% to 50% of carbon gases absorbed by the earth’s oceans?

5. Does carbonic acid destroy the ability of aquatic organisms such as coral, snails, oysters and other mollusks, to calcify shells and skeletons sturdy enough to survive?

6. Are the coral, snails, oysters and other mollusks at the bottom of the oceans’ food chain so that all other marine life depends upon them, directly or indirectly, for food?

7. Does 25% of all of the oceans’ marine life depend on coral reefs alone? Has carbonic acid already wreaked havoc on the coral reefs of the oceans?

8. Are 70% of global fish stocks fully-fished or over-fished? And have 30% collapsed completely, meaning they produce less than 10% of original capacity?

9. Does over-fishing comprise the same threat to the oceans as carbonic acidification?

10. If democracy were extended to the fish of the world’s oceans and they were presented with the unhappy choice of suffering from an oil spill or dying from carbonic acidification, what would they choose?

11. Why are there 3-mile, 12-mile and 200-mile limits to territorial waters that are otherwise part of the earth’s oceans? How do they relate to the so-called Outer Continental Shelf?

12. What law, if any, applies outside the territorial limits?

13. Who owns the earth’s resources on and under the high seas (outside anyone’s territorial limits)?

14. Has the U.S. (unlike the European Union and 164 countries) agreed to the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea?

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