Sentences with phrase «consequences of warming ocean»

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.

Having made that point it becomes necessary to deal with the matter of cloudiness and it's effects because the passing over of a cloud with the consequence of a warmed ocean skin layer is put forward (by Realclimate amongst others) as a «confirmation» of the effect of DLR on the skin layer because clouds transmit more DLR downward just as GHGs do.

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«The beauty of this study is that easily acquired measures of reef complexity and depth provide a means of predicting long term consequences of ocean warming events,» Dr Wilson says.

The coverage of living corals on Australia's Great Barrier Reef could decline to less than 10 percent if ocean warming continues, according to a new study that explores the short - and long - term consequences of environmental changes to the reef.

The consequences of global warming may be lower food production, ocean acidification, loss of biodiversity, worse weather conditions and poor access to fresh water.

«Changes in spawning timing and poleward migration of fish populations due to warmer ocean conditions or global climate change will negatively affect areas that were historically dependent on these fish, and change the food web structure of the areas that the fish move into with unforeseen consequences,» researchers wrote.

A newly published study published online in the April 24 edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences entitled, «Ocean warming since 1982 has expanded the niche of toxic algal blooms in the North Atlantic and North Pacific Oceans,» demonstrates that one ocean consequence of climate change that has already occurred is the spread and intensification of toxic aOcean warming since 1982 has expanded the niche of toxic algal blooms in the North Atlantic and North Pacific Oceans,» demonstrates that one ocean consequence of climate change that has already occurred is the spread and intensification of toxic aocean consequence of climate change that has already occurred is the spread and intensification of toxic algae.

The report, Explaining ocean warming: causes, scales, effects and consequences, which was presented at the IUCN World Conservation Congress in Hawaii recently (5 September 2016), has found the upper depths of the world's oceans have warmed significantly since 1995.

The planet is getting warmer, ocean temperatures are rising, the polar ice caps are melting, and all of the incontrovertible science of climate change is that more extreme - weather events are an inevitable consequence.

From his own research in chemical oceanography, along with data from a number of recent studies, Weber points out that some negative consequences of greenhouse gas emissions and warming «are manifesting faster than previously predicted,» including ocean acidification and oxygen loss, which are expected to affect «a large fraction of marine species if current trends continue unchecked.»

Rising sea levels are a direct consequence of rising temperatures: As the oceans warm, they expand.

(In English and Spanish with subtitles) The Island President (PG for violence, smoking and mature themes) Climate change documentary chronicling the effort of Maldives President Mohamed Nasheed to save his low - lying island nation from being sinking into the Indian Ocean as a consequence of global warming.

Remember too that ocean heat content increases were a predicted consequence of GHG - driven warming well before the ocean data was clear enough to demonstrate it.

I think the inflation would be a consequence of that fact that (except for some things), in so far as the efficient market hypothesis applies, we would be operating optimally now except for global warming and ocean acidification; applying the tax pulls us away from that optimum, the economy will then not be as efficient (ignoring externalities); but we should want to do this because the economy is now more efficient when including the externalities.

I'd be happy to hearing a lot more songs about the great benefits of renewable energy sources like the great waves of the big oceans, the wind (whether it is cold or warm is of no consequence), and of course the great shiner: the sun.

Russell, Bayden; Connell, Sean; Findlay, Helen; Tait, Karen; Widdicombe, Stephen; Mieszkowska, Nova Warming and acidifying oceans, a consequence of carbon dioxide emissions, are changing coastal ecosystems; we know this.

@ 48 If your speculation is correct, I assume that another consequence would be that, if / when concentrations of greenhouse gases start to drop, corresponding reductions in surface ocean / land temperatures would take place at a much slower rate than would otherwise be the case: the surplus heat stored in the deep ocean will gradually make its way to the ocean surface, and continue to warm the atmosphere for decades, if not longer.

Warming is widespread over the upper layer of the ocean (500 meters or so), and this may change normal ocean circulation patterns, with unforeseen consequences.

Consider the possibility that not just millions, but billions face disastrous consequences from the likes of (including but not limited to): Sandy (and other hybrid and out - of - season storms enhanced by the earth's circulatory eccentricities and warmer oceans); the drought in progress; wildfires; floods (just last week, Argentina had 16 inches of rain in 2 hours *); derechos; increased cold and snow in the north as the Arctic melts and cracks up, breaking up the Arctic circulation and sending cold out of what was previously largely a contained system, and losing its own consistent cold, seriously interfering with the Jet Stream, pollution of multiple kinds such as in China, the increase of algae and the like in our oceans as they heat, and food and water shortages.

They looked at the potential long - term consequences of oceans ever richer in dissolved carbon dioxide, as humans burn ever more fossil fuels and emit greenhouse gases that continue to warm the atmosphere.

The fine balance of chemicals in our air and seas has been disrupted with dangerous consequences — our carbon emissions are driving global warming and ocean acidification, while excesses of nitrogen and phospohorous from industry and agriculture are turning parts of the sea into dead zones.

As a public scholar with expertise in paleoclimate science, I communicate alarming, difficult information about the consequences to Earth and ocean systems that have come with past events of abrupt climate warming.

Drawing on the work of over 80 scientists from 12 countries, it sets out the likely nature and scale of changes to come and also looks at the probable economic consequences ocean warming poses as well as associated risks to human health and well - being.

One consequence of the ocean's ability to absorb more heat is that when an area of ocean becomes warmer or cooler than usual, it takes much longer for that area to revert to «normal» than it would for a land area.

As a consequence, cold air from the North American continent traveled farther over ice, instead of warmer ocean waters, remaining cold until it hit warmer open water in the middle of Labrador Sea.

Compounding these issues is the link between increasing green crab abundance and increasing ocean temperature, which has had severe ecological and socio - economic consequences in areas such as the GOM, where warming is occurring faster than 99 % of the world's oceans.

Fifth, warming of the oceans may have serious impacts on fisheries productivity, and ocean acidification from the carbon dioxide humanity is pouring into the atmosphere may have even more serious consequences for the harvest from the sea.

The report, Explaining ocean warming: Causes, scale, effects and consequences, reviews the effects of ocean warming on species, ecosystems and on the benefits oceans provide to humans.

«Storms like Harvey are helped by one of the consequences of climate change: As the air warms, some of that heat is absorbed by the ocean, which in turn raises the temperature of the sea's upper layers.

Now, you've got your Apple - lovers (aka: warmists or hysterics) who seek to discern the «signal» of combustion's consequence in warming a planet between 2 / 3rds & 3 / 4ths covered by oceans whose mixed layer is some ten times as massive as its air.

One of the consequences could be a disruption of major ocean currents, particularly those flowing north and south, circulating warm water from the equator to polar regions and cold water from the poles back to the equator.

The present state of the Arctic is not caused by any global warming but is the consequence of North Atlantic currents carrying warm Gulf Stream water into the Arctic Ocean.

The Washington Post has this dramatic headline: Global warming is now slowing down the circulation of the ocean with potentially dire consequences.

Yes, that is what I was trying to work out — that for ocean warming to be a consequence of atmospheric warming — albeit an indirect consequence as you aver — you would still need to see atmospheric warming.

If fact it's probably a better idea to think of La Nina simply being more efficient heat uptake by the ocean, and El Nino being less efficient heat uptake, with a consequence of less or more heat being available to transfer to the atmosphere, than to think of El Nino as warming and La Nina as cooling.

«such that the effect on the Pacific warm pool is a regional consequence of more subtle global changes involving all the oceans combined»

This is the only so - far - ultimate consequence of warming the planet and the oceans.

For more than two decades, meteorologists and oceanographers have repeatedly warned that runaway global warming, as a consequence of ever - greater combustion of fossil fuels, could bring about an ice - free polar ocean by about 2050.

The likely loss of natural chemicals that might have life - saving value in advancing the development of new medicines should be added to the list of consequences of global warming, ocean acidification, and loss of biodiversity.

These in turn suggest that decreases in ice thickness of < 30 cm may be attributable to this flux, rather than to the supposed consequence of a warming atmosphere over the Arctic Ocean.

Warming temperatures, rising seas, ocean acidification, changes to regional weather patterns — nearly every consequence of climate change threatens the world's 8.7 million species in some way.

So — IPCC are still just about in the ballpark with Shine's Lambda of 0.4 but only IF all the warming since 1950 is a consequence of the CO2, or there is more warming in the (ocean) pipeline.

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.»

The effects of this marked shift in westerly winds are already being seen today, triggering warm and salty water to be drawn up from the deep ocean, melting large sections of the Antarctic ice sheet with unknown consequences for future sea level rise while the ability of the Antarctic Circumpolar Current to soak up heat and carbon from the atmosphere remains deeply uncertain.

Though much of this increase may simply be carbon dioxide degassing from warming oceans (much as you find with your cola as it warms), it is likely that some of this increase is a direct consequence of the use of fossil fuels: coal, oil and gas.

However, the steady acidification of the oceans (nicknamed the «evil twin» of global warming) is another insidious consequence of rising levels of atmospheric CO2.

With global greenhouse gas emissions at their highest level in history, the impacts of climate change have already been felt «on all continents and across the oceans»; the more we emit, the more the warming will continue, and the likelier we'll all be to experience «severe, pervasive and irreversible» consequences.

Because warm water holds less oxygen than cold water, oceans are expected to lose some of the dissolved gas as a consequence of climate change.

But during the past decade, reports have highlighted the consequences of human activity on our coasts and oceans, including collapsing fisheries, invasive species, unnatural warming and acidification, and ubiquitous «dead zones» induced by nutrient runoff.

Climate model simulations expect a long - term decrease in ocean heat uptake efficiency as a consequence of global warming.