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Why is increasing salinity of the ocean bad? Doesn't that happen all the time on a much greater scale as ocean water evaporates into the atmosphere?
It's bad. Very bad.
https://e360.yale.edu/features/salt-scourge-the-dual-threat-of-warming-and-rising-salinity
Your link (or at least what I've read from it) doesn't cover why it would be bad to make the ocean saltier; it only talks about the rise of the salty ocean water.
I think it makes it pretty clear how increased salinity affects the climate, but here you go-
https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1029/2021GL095748
I'm not suggesting that it's not bad, but that article didn't seem to talk about rising ocean salinity.