Sentences with phrase «about ocean issues»

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The former, which consists only of the five Arctic states with direct borders on the Arctic Ocean — Canada, Denmark (Greenland), Norway, Russia, and the United States — primarily deals with oceanic issues.74 Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu even complained in 2015 about non-Arctic states using their military and economic power to «strive for greater roles in the Arctic,» 75 which likely was an implicit reference to China.

And though he's often seen as safe in his district, he does have a primary challenger: Democratic lawyer Blake Morris, a longtime Brooklynite and member of a group that has been increasingly harrying Felder about issues like Felder's attempt for a higher speed limit to speed traffic on Ocean Parkway, which critics say is too dangerous.

Marcia McNutt, editor - in - chief of the Science family of journals, joined U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry on 1 June as he talked with high - school students about ocean protection and environmental issues.

At 8.05 a.m. local time, the Agency for Meteorology, Climatology and Geophysics in Jakarta issued a bulletin about a hypothetical tsunami — modelled on the one that hit Sumatra on Boxing Day 2004 and claimed more than 200,000 lives — to national focal points around the Indian Ocean.

A two - minute PSA about the importance of marine coastal habitats in mitigating climate change, ocean acidification, and other issues related to the increase in atmospheric CO2

A short, powerful and entertaining animation about the issue of ocean acidification, produced by Ridgeway School (Plymouth, UK) and Plymouth Marine Laboratory.

The fundamental issue about climate change, the difficulty, is the delayed response of a system and that's due to the ocean's heat capacity.

Permafrost outgassing is similarly a major issue — and what about all the studies on the Southern Ocean sink saturation — they don't matter either?

This resource contains a summary of three recent articles about different solutions to the prominent issue of too much plastic in our oceans, as highlighted by Blue Planet.

This issue features articles and interviews with and about the authors of our popular titles «Goldfisch,» «Undead Messiah,» «Kamo,» «Sword Princess Amaltea» and «Ocean of Secrets.»

Because our work is on the frontline, we see first - hand the impact human interference has on the survival issues that marine mammals face, and we listen to their messages about their health and the health of the ocean.

To find out more about the winners visit World Travel Awards and also take a look at the new free luxury travel magazine Best in Travel which has an Indian Ocean special in its latest issue.

We are still trying to decide which cruise was our favorite, but these are some of the key issues to think about when you make your own Viking River or Viking Ocean choice.

Operating out of a pristine area of the world (and one that depends on it staying as such), we dedicated our philanthropic mission to environmental issues, and particularly to raising awareness about environmental impact reduction and the plight of the world's oceans.

Ocean Wise is a Vancouver Aquarium conservation program created to educate and empower consumers about the issues surrounding sustainable seafood.

John Akomfrah's environmentally conscious video installation, Purple, offers dialogues about climate change by foregrounding issues such as global warming, animal extinctions and the plastic ocean.

Making these idle debris into something more appealing to the eye, Duran created a series of installations to draw attention to the issue of ocean pollution and raise a wider awareness about environmental problems globally.

I start by noting some of the unnerving situations I've been in while reporting about climate change and related issues — sitting with a murderous cattle rancher on his porch deep in the Amazon rain forest, camping on cracking sea ice floating on the 14,000 - foot - deep Arctic Ocean a few dozen miles from the North Pole.

The acidification of the ocean is a much longer - term issue than acid rain, which goes away about two weeks after you reduce sulfur and nitrogen emissions from smokestacks.

I know nothing about this issue, but I just came across a reference to Jacobson, Mark Z., «Studying ocean acidification with conservative, stable numerical schemes for nonequilibrium air - ocean exchange and ocean equilibrium chemistry.»

Updated, Nov. 25, 10:41 a.m. Ruth Teichroeb, the communications officer for Oceans North: Protecting Life in the Arctic, an initiative of the Pew Charitable Trusts, sent a note this evening about new steps related to an issue I've covered here before — the rare and welcome proactive work by Arctic nations to ban fishing in the central Arctic Ocean ahead of the «big melt» as summer sea ice retreats more in summers in a human - heated climate.

I don't know about all of you, but I do find that the uncertainty around e.g. the various issues related to ocean heat content or issues regarding connecting the Argo float network to other data networks is SO much better covered in Judith's bizarre and uniquely repetitive mischaracterizations of other scientists» comments, than by the published science and its critical review.

He is passionate about healthy oceans, lakes and rivers, and understands the need to build political support for ocean issues.

Contact Marta for stories about general ocean issues affecting Europe and Oceana's European - based campaigns on Mediterranean bluefin tuna, sharks, bycatch, overfishing subsidies, driftnetting, bottom trawling, marine protected areas, Illegal, Unregulated and Unreported fishing, mercury contamination, overfishing of prey species and the «Common Fishery Policy Reform.»

-- Susan Solomon, Nature The Long Thaw is written for anyone who wishes to know what cutting - edge science tells us about the modern issue of global warming and its effects on the pathways of atmospheric chemistry, as well as global and regional temperatures, rainfall, sea level, Arctic sea - ice coverage, melting of the continental ice sheets, cyclonic storm frequency and intensity and ocean acidification.

Tony - Since deep ocean heat seems to be the lynch pin of much of the debate I am most interested in what you find out about the issue.

I can not believe that people are STILL talking about UHI and siting issues when the oceans tell us these are NOT siginificantly influencing the trend.

I didn't mention ocean currents in that story about Hawaii either, focusing instead on the siting and instrumentation issues.

To firm up on these issues we need more data about internal ocean movements and in particular data concerning possible temperature discontinuities along the thermohaline circulation.

The statement about «no time - lag» is puzzling, since latency is a big issue in ocean studies.

Regarding TimTheToolMan's prediction as to how the IPCC and the climate science community will deal with the issue, the more one thinks about the IPCC's dilemma, the more one should believe that this is just what they will do, they will tune AR5's modeling in ways which get a better recent fit, sacrificing some historical fit to do so, and then they will produce a series of new papers which rewrite the history of ocean heat content to match.

Perhaps we should look to someone who has hands - on expertise in the field, someone like Kevin Trenberth, who also takes issue with Pielke's claims about ocean heat:

Beginning September 15 and running through November 15, the Aquarium of the Pacific will be the first to host the Surfrider Foundation's inaugural Ocean Armor art exhibit to educate visitors and raise awareness about coastal issues affecting the world's coastlines.

This was supposed to be a meeting about global warming but somehow it got itself sidetracked to subsidiary issues like the pH of the ocean water.

Of course there are many ways to look at this issue; there's much to be said about the negative externalities associated with industrial agriculture because, as he notes, food production «exacerbate [s] global warming, river and ocean pollution, and a host of other ills.»

At present it potentially explains a great deal, covers most if not all observed climate changes and broadly complies with the laws of physics subject to resolution of the issues raised about the solar effects on the atmosphere and infra red effects on the oceans.

However, I am far from convinced that even if there was no CO2 (leaving aside issues about life on Earth), all the oceans would be frozen.

In a new study published in the latest issue of the journal Science, Geerat Vermeij of UC Davis and Peter Roopnarine of the California Academy of Sciences write that climate change is creating conditions in the Arctic similar to those found during the warm mid-Pliocene epoch, about 3.5 million years ago, when a number of favorable factors helped many North Pacific mollusk species invade the warming Arctic Ocean and, eventually, the North Atlantic.

James Annan, in the comments below, pointed to a post in the comments at RealClimate by ocean climate guy Martin Visbeck that gets to the heart of the issue about the way this issue played in Nature and therefore the international press.

Similarly RealClimate refers to many learned papers about the issue of dipping a bucket in the ocean, taking a sample and measuring its temperature with a mercury thermometer.

The first big issue is about the accuracy of estimations: (a) there are discordant trends of present: low atmospheric satellite measured temperature vs. GST measured in land & oceans; (b) there is a big uncertainty linked to the proxy data obtained during XX, XIX and beyond centuries.

Given these facts we need to honestly consider the moral and environmental issues about transporting gas, including shale gas, across oceans and continents and being increasingly dependent on gas from countries with regulatory and environmental standards lower than ours.

The Republic of the Marshall Islands (RMI), an island country located near the equator in the Pacific Ocean with a population of about 50,000, is poised to become the first sovereign nation to issue a cryptocurrency that will be legal...

The Republic of the Marshall Islands (RMI), an island country located near the equator in the Pacific Ocean with a population of about 50,000, is poised to become the first sovereign nation to issue a cryptocurrency that will be legal tender.

Increasingly I write about environmental issues such as air pollution and ocean protection.

Monterey, CA About Blog The Aquarium's Conservation and Science programs are tackling some of the most critical issues affecting ocean health.