Sentences with phrase «chemistry of the ocean»

The climate and the very chemistry of our oceans are changing, species are disappearing.

His name is being invoked now in discussions of the unfolding oil disaster in the Gulf of Mexico and the shifting chemistry of the oceans through the ongoing buildup of carbon dioxide.

Measuring pH lets us monitor the carbon cycle, which underpins the basic chemistry of the ocean and generation of oxygen in the air.

«Skeletons developed as chemistry of oceans changed.»

But the change in carbon chemistry of the ocean and ultimately the atmosphere need to be transparently documented, also, if we are to trade carbon offsets based on iron fertilization.

Gases suspended in air dissolve into sea water and disrupt the normal chemistry of oceans.

The example here, thinking it smart to increase aerosols while continuing to emit CO2, despite the rate of change in the physical chemistry of the oceans — science known far more precisely than the physics of the atmosphere — is a classic.

The workshop summarized the state of understanding, key uncertainties and next research steps on the shifting chemistry of the oceans and the impacts on species and ecosystems, with a focus on ecosystems of particular interest to humans.

Carbon dioxide directly affects the basic chemistry of our oceans: in fact, it impacts the basic chemistry of life on our planet.

«We know that this is changing the very chemistry of our oceans,» Cantwell said.

The chemistry of the ocean is also affected, as the increased concentrations of atmospheric carbon dioxide will cause the ocean to become more acidic.

Rather, they were a form of microbes — specifically, methane - producing archaea called Methanosarcina — that suddenly bloomed explosively in the oceans, spewing prodigious amounts of methane into the atmosphere and dramatically changing the climate and the chemistry of the oceans.

This could enable them to learn more about its ice crust, work out the chemistry of the ocean and the rocks beneath, and perhaps pick up the music of active geysers on the surface and volcanoes erupting on the sea...

Associated consequences include likely enhanced global rainfall and weathering of the continents, which further shifted the chemistry of the ocean.

«Scientists know that there is this massive migration, but no one has really tried to estimate how it impacts the chemistry of the ocean.

Calcium carbonate has great scientific relevance in biomineralization and geosciences, forming enormous scales of biological (reefs and ocean sediments) and geological origin, which bind a huge amount of CO2 and affect the chemistry of ocean water (1) and, with it, Earth's atmosphere and climate.

A look at the chemistry of ocean acidification explains why.

Next, Doney (p. 1512) reviews how the chemistry of the oceans is changing, mostly due to human fossil fuel combustion, fertilizer use, and industrial activity.

«Starting back in the 1960s, for various reasons people claimed there was very little continental mass, and so there wasn't enough weathering to affect the chemistry of the ocean.

And if you're looking for life, then the chemistry of the ocean is a big deal.»

Their effect on the chemistry of the ocean is unknown as well.

In turn, the thickness of the shell relative to the bulk chemistry of the moon is important in understanding the chemistry of that ocean.

How are humans driving changes in the chemistry of the ocean, and what might this mean for marine ecosystems in the future?

Rising ocean temperatures around Alaska alters the chemistry of ocean water.

The release of material from the sediment by the action of the rock - using bacteria may influence the chemistry of the oceans.

Marine sciences is an interdisciplinary field concerning the biology, physics and chemistry of the oceans.

It also lowers the pH of sea water, making the chemistry of the ocean dangerous for some species.

The growing amounts of carbon dioxide that human activities add to the air have begun changing the chemistry of the oceans.

Cooling of the tectonic plates, and the impact of the ridge flank system on the chemistry of the ocean, are fundamental global - scale processes.

And these growing emissions of carbon dioxide that human activities have been adding to the air have begun changing the chemistry of the oceans.

A changing climate could impact the food that we eat, as alterations to the chemistry of the ocean or the world's weather have the potential to make some animals and plants extinct.

Climate change, rising atmospheric carbon dioxide, excess nutrient inputs, and pollution in its many forms are fundamentally altering the chemistry of the ocean, often on a global scale and, in some cases, at rates greatly exceeding those in the historical and recent geological record.

It turns out that like all tightly coupled systems, the ocean and the atmosphere like to be in equilibrium with each other, which means that the chemistry of the ocean is affected by the chemistry of the atmosphere.

I was reminded that what frightens me most about climate change — which will by itself cook forests, kill thousands of species, and alter the chemistry of the oceans — are the famines, mass migrations, and wars that could follow.

«Acidification is changing the chemistry of the oceans at a scale and magnitude greater than thought to occur on Earth for many millions of years and is expected to cause changes in the growth and survival of a wide variety of marine organisms, potentially leading to massive shifts in ocean ecosystems,» Barry told the Senate Commerce Committee's Oceans, Atmosphere, Fisheries and Coast Guard Subcommittee on Thursday.

The chemistry of the oceans tends to be very stable, and to overwhelm those forces is really hard.

Readers who were previously unaware of the scope of humanity's effects on the world — on its climate, its biogeochemical cycles, the chemistry of its oceans, the colour of its sky, the flow of its rivers, the number of its species and more — may find themselves shocked by its relentless exposition.

The chemistry of the oceans has been known for many years, it hasn't just been invented by the IPCC; Limnology and Oceanography 958 November 1972, V. 17

How is the chemistry of the ocean carbonate system changed by a more acidic pH?

Scientists warn that the chemistry of the oceans is changing in ways unprecedented for 20 million years.

The first two are possibilities based on laboratory experiments and warn of what could happen as the world warms, the climates change and the chemistry of the oceans continues to become more acidic.

And talk about the invisible things that we're doing, that shift in the chemistry of the oceans is completely invisible but very consequential in the long run.