If peak acidities rather than long-term averages are what matters most, natural variability could make things worse.

ECONOMIST: Ocean acidification

And while businesses should never try and encourage addiction, the fact is that like slots, technology products with finite variability do not form long-term habits in most users.

FORBES: Where Have All The Users Gone?

The programme aims to maintain a network of at least 3, 000 Argo floats, over all ocean areas without ice-cover, to study ocean variability in the long term.

UNESCO: World Water Assessment Programme (WWAP)