Sentences with phrase «challenge of a warming ocean»

Indeed, the sea star's novel cooling strategy will be insufficient to deal with the challenge of a warming ocean.

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They must also deal with a host of challenges tied directly to the environment and potentially amplified by climate change, including warming waters, increasing ocean acidity and the spread of diseases that can decimate shellfish stocks.

«Ocean warming may well turn out to be the greatest hidden challenge of our generation,» said Dan Laffoley, marine vice chairman of the World Commission on Protected Areas at IUCN.

Original post The three Dalhousie University researchers whose 2010 analysis of plankton trends and ocean warming has been challenged by other marine scientists have sent this reaction to last week's post:

Never before has it been possible for people from all over the world to access the latest information and collectively seek solutions to the challenges which face our planet, and not a moment too soon: the year 2015 was the hottest in human history, and the Great Barrier Reef is suffering the consequences of warming oceans right now.

They then looked at the challenges that warmer oceans delivered for crustaceans, molluscs, sponges, deep sea invertebrates, the warm and cold water corals that provide habitat for one - fourth of the ocean's variety, the pelagic or surface - swimming fish, and the demersal or deep - sea denizens that live longer, reproduce more slowly and are thus less likely to evolve and adapt to changing conditions.

I've never challenged the notion that, if it exists, greenhouse warming of the atmosphere could lead to more heat being RETAINED by the oceans, which is not nearly the same thing as a DIRECT transfer of heat energy FROM the atmosphere, TO the oceans.

The International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) has published a study concluding that the continued warming of the oceans is the greatest hidden challenge of our generation.

I think the appeal in engaging with SebastianH is that he actually believes that CO2 functions like a «blanket» in the atmosphere and thus warms the oceans, melts glaciers at their base, raises sea levels to catastrophic heights, acidifies the oceans, kills off 30,000 species per year, browns the Earth (desertification), etc., and that he is so convinced of the «rightness» of his beliefs that he thinks anyone who disagrees must be insane, stupid, mathematically challenged, a conspiracy theorist, etc..

Soaring ocean temperature is «greatest hidden challenge of our generation» The soaring temperature of the oceans is the «greatest hidden challenge of our generation» that is altering the make - up of marine species, shrinking fishing areas and starting to spread disease to humans, according to the most comprehensive analysis yet of ocean warming.

«This means that the glaciers are reassuringly not exposed to the warmest waters, but it makes projections more challenging because the pathways of the ocean heat are narrow and more sensitive to fluctuations.»

For example, reductions in seasonal sea ice cover and higher surface temperatures may open up new habitat in polar regions for some important fish species, such as cod, herring, and pollock.128 However, continued presence of cold bottom - water temperatures on the Alaskan continental shelf could limit northward migration into the northern Bering Sea and Chukchi Sea off northwestern Alaska.129, 130 In addition, warming may cause reductions in the abundance of some species, such as pollock, in their current ranges in the Bering Sea131and reduce the health of juvenile sockeye salmon, potentially resulting in decreased overwinter survival.132 If ocean warming continues, it is unlikely that current fishing pressure on pollock can be sustained.133 Higher temperatures are also likely to increase the frequency of early Chinook salmon migrations, making management of the fishery by multiple user groups more challenging.134

The comprehensive paper, entitled «Explaining ocean warming: causes, scale, effects and consequences,» described the swift warming of the seas as «the greatest hidden challenge of our generation.»

These actions, alongside the support of science in tackling the major challenges in projecting the impacts of ocean warming and climate change more generally, will help the insurance industry to avoid market failures and increase societal resilience.

The soaring temperature of the oceans is the «greatest hidden challenge of our generation» that is altering the make - up of marine species, shrinking fishing areas and starting to spread disease to humans, according to the most comprehensive analysis yet of ocean warming.

Their predictions — based on an analysis of natural cycles in water temperatures in the Pacific and Atlantic oceans — challenge some of the global warming orthodoxy's most deeply cherished beliefs, such as the claim that the North Pole will be free of ice in summer by 2013.

For more information, including a discussion of the natural warming of ocean heat content data, refer to my illustrated essay «The Manmade Global Warming Challenge» [warming of ocean heat content data, refer to my illustrated essay «The Manmade Global Warming Challenge» [Warming Challenge» [42 MB].