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>>9548531
it's certainly a big experiment. sure, co2 has been high before, but not in a very long time and it's never occurred this quickly. i don't think the warming part matters very much. like you said, acidification has bigger potential implications. As far as phytoplankton go... there will be big shifts in species, but definitely won't go away as a clade. However fishing, which is already abused, will only get worse, and combined with large scale population changes it could actually lead to some kind of collapse.
on the other hand it might not happen, or might just happen in ways impossible to predict. plus nobody seems willing to stop driving or stop using central air, or stop eating fish or stop buying random chinese shit, etc.