I read that just after reading Kim Stanley Robinson's Capitol trilogy. (40 days of rain, 50 degrees below, 60 days...) Yeah, it's science fiction, but it's plausible hard sf, not space opera. And the Time article sounded way too close to some of what was happening in the books.

Ocean acidification was mentioned somewhat in passing in the last book as something that's very hard to reverse, partially because of the chemistry and partially because of the sheer amount of chemicals that would be required. That was in contrast to a multi hundred billion dollar salt transport to restart the thermo haline circulation.

that was a really good series, including coverage of Puget Sound, which I thought was carefully protected, but you can only do so much

Oyster breeders forced to move:

http://apps.seattletimes.com/reports/sea-change/2013/sep/11/...

rising levels of caffeine, PCBs and antibiotics in the Sound's waters: (I can't google for recent articles, but STimes has written about it last 6 months

http://seattletimes.com/html/localnews/2002918517_pollution0...