The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) just passed Motion 53, which aims to name at least 30 percent of
the global ocean area «highly protected» by 2030.
While polar oceans make up only 10 percent of
the global ocean area, they strongly influence Earth's activities.
Not exact matches
Global warming is affecting oceans, food and water supply, coastal areas and biodiversity, and creating what Gore calls «the largest business opportunity in world history, as the global economy decarbonizes and becomes hyper - efficient.&
Global warming is affecting
oceans, food and water supply, coastal
areas and biodiversity, and creating what Gore calls «the largest business opportunity in world history, as the
global economy decarbonizes and becomes hyper - efficient.&
global economy decarbonizes and becomes hyper - efficient.»
The Pew Environment Group's
Global Ocean Legacy program has set its sights on two further massive protection
areas in the near future: they hope to see New Zealand approve a 630,000 square km
area in the Kermadec Islands later this year, and Australia protect 900,000 square km in the Coral Sea in 2012.
Under Obama the CEQ is moving forward with plans formulated during his predecessor's tenure for a U.S. policy on
oceans — from newly protected
areas to reconciling competing authorities and laws — along with continuing the Major Economies Forum on Energy and Climate as a way to address
global greenhouse gas emissions.
This newest threat follows on the heels of overfishing, sediment deposition, nitrate pollution in some
areas, coral bleaching caused by
global warming, and increasing
ocean acidity caused by carbon emissions.
The most vulnerable
areas of the
global ocean are being hit with a double whammy of sorts.
«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.
The
area boasts the world's warmest
ocean temperatures and vents massive volumes of warm gases from the surface high into the atmosphere, which may shape
global climate and air chemistry enough to impact billions of people worldwide.
The
global climate models do a good job of simulating the process of sea ice formation over large
areas in the open
ocean.
Some members of Congress are pushing an omnibus
ocean protection bill called
Oceans - 21, which aims to regulate fisheries, establish a network of protected areas, provide an oceans management framework to rescue coasts and off - shore areas, and help ocean life survive global wa
Oceans - 21, which aims to regulate fisheries, establish a network of protected
areas, provide an
oceans management framework to rescue coasts and off - shore areas, and help ocean life survive global wa
oceans management framework to rescue coasts and off - shore
areas, and help
ocean life survive
global warming.
Scientists at the School of
Ocean Sciences, Bangor University have completed a comprehensive review of the literature on the mechanisms of potential coral resistance and recovery across scales from
global reef
areas to the microbial level within individual corals.
«Cold, deep water from this little
area of the Nordic seas, less than 1 % of the
global ocean, travels the entire planet and returns as warm surface water.
Despite
global commitments to increase the number of protected
areas, less than 3 % of the world's
oceans are now protected within an MPA.
But he cautions that the rapid increase in the extent of worms» burrowing modeled in the new study may have been limited to some
areas of the ancient
ocean and has yet to be shown to be a
global phenomenon.
And
global shipping traffic has increased fourfold since 1990 — meaning that the
ocean area available to reflect away heat is only expected to grow.
To determine aquaculture's
global potential, the researchers identified
areas where
ocean conditions are suitable enough to support farms.
«The Earth is in the midst of a biodiversity crisis,» Sorte said, «and the Gulf of Maine is one of the fastest - warming
areas of the
global ocean, so the impacts of
ocean warming are likely to happen much sooner there.»
Global ocean temperatures were unprecedented during the period, and several land
areas, including the continental United States, Australia, Europe, South America and Russia, broke temperature records by large margins.
That shift of the coastal
ocean from carbon source to sink, quantified for the first time in the Dec. 5, 2013, issue of the journal Nature, suggests coastal
areas are a key component of the
global carbon budget, the scientists say.
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To remove this difference in magnitude and focus instead on the patterns of change, the authors scaled the vertical profiles of
ocean temperature (
area - weighted with respect to each vertical
ocean layer) with the
global surface air temperature trend of each period.
With the contribution of such record warmth at year's end and with 10 months of the year record warm for their respective months, including the last 8 (January was second warmest for January and April was third warmest), the average
global temperature across land and
ocean surface
areas for 2015 was 0.90 °C (1.62 °F) above the 20th century average of 13.9 °C (57.0 °F), beating the previous record warmth of 2014 by 0.16 °C (0.29 °F).
The circled
area is (roughly) the solar energy already absorbed by the
ocean and yet to manifest itself in
global temperatures i.e - warming already committed.
Parts of the northwestern Pacific, the North Atlantic south of Greenland, and regions in the southern
oceans near Antarctica were were cooler or much cooler than average, with no
areas of the
global oceans record cold.
Temperature changes relative to the corresponding average for 1901 - 1950 (°C) from decade to decade from 1906 to 2005 over the Earth's continents, as well as the entire globe,
global land
area and the
global ocean (lower graphs).
The work supports the Laboratory's
Global Security mission area and the Information, Science, and Technology science pillar through enhanced ocean model components of global climate simula
Global Security mission
area and the Information, Science, and Technology science pillar through enhanced
ocean model components of
global climate simula
global climate simulations.
At that point in geological history,
global surface temperatures were rising naturally with spurts of rapid regional warming in
areas like the North Atlantic
Ocean.
The CDR potential and possible environmental side effects are estimated for various COA deployment scenarios, assuming olivine as the alkalinity source in ice ‐ free coastal waters (about 8.6 % of the
global ocean's surface
area), with dissolution rates being a function of grain size, ambient seawater temperature, and pH. Our results indicate that for a large ‐ enough olivine deployment of small ‐ enough grain sizes (10 µm), atmospheric CO2 could be reduced by more than 800 GtC by the year 2100.
the
oceans, seas, and coastal
areas together form an essential component of the
global life - support system.
Built in 2001 Siladen Resort & Spa is an exclusive boutique dive resort located on Pulau Siladen, a lush tropical island in the heart of the Bunaken National Marine Park, a protected
ocean area known worldwide for the richness of its waters and epicentre of
global marine biodiversity.
WWF
Global published this highly informative infographic about the value of a healthy
ocean and how marine protected
areas (MPAs) can contribute to the rehabilitation and restoration of marine life and resources.
By analogy, a warmer world wouldn't be rainier (or cloudier); it's an imperfect analogy, because rain isn't absolutely correlated with cloudiness, and lateral transport of energy by
ocean, air, and latent heat currents in and out of the E & W Pacific Ocean areas won't scale to global wa
ocean, air, and latent heat currents in and out of the E & W Pacific
Ocean areas won't scale to global wa
Ocean areas won't scale to
global warming
Numerous denier arguments involving slight fluctuations in the
global distribution of warmer vs cooler sea surface
areas as supposed explanations of climate change neglect all the energy that goes into
ocean heat content, melting large ice deposits and so forth.
From Karina (2014
Ocean Sciences p 547): «Our findings show that the
area around the Tropical Asian Archipelago (TAA) is important to closing the
global sea level budget on interannual to decadal timescales, pointing out that the steric estimate from Argo is biased low, as the current mapping methods are insufficient to recover the steric signal in the TAA region.»
Some odd things are also going on with relation to large
areas of spreading
ocean anoxia — with the two most likely culprits being
ocean warming and / or nutrient loading (
global industrial fertilizer production).
«The fact that we are seeing an expansion of the
ocean's least productive
areas as the subtropical gyres warm is consistent with our understanding of the impact of
global warming,» he said.
I have to raise an objection to the phrase «the only region of the world that has defied
global warming» — that might be neglecting a certain
area in the Pacific where England 2014 has identified a very obvious point where the «Pacific conveyor» was bringing in the last decade up a lot of cold water from the deep
ocean and has possibly played a major role in the specific trends for that period.
Having said that, it is a really small effect — if the entire Arctic summer sea ice pack melted (average thickness 2 metres, density ~ 920 kg / m3,
area 3 × 10 ^ 6 km ^ 2 (0.8 % total
ocean area) = > a 4.5 cm rise instantly which implies a
global sea level rise of 0.36 mm.
The best available science suggests that a
global system of marine protected
areas will need to protect around one third of the sea from fishing to keep
ocean ecosystems healthy and the world's fishing industry in business.»
The model for
ocean areas is likely to affect
global averages much more than the model for land
areas.
This prediction was seized upon by
global warming advocates as «proof» that the South Pole's unprecedented warming would melt sea ice and cause melting ice sheets to collapse, raising
ocean levels and thus submerging worldwide coastal
areas.
Global ocean temperatures were unprecedented during the period, and several land
areas, including the continental United States, Australia, Europe, South America and Russia, broke temperature records by large margins.
The temperature that climate scientists typically reference and care about with regard to climate change is «the average
global temperature across land and
ocean surface
areas».
More research needs to be done, she says, before we can understand how
global warming could affect people who live in
areas impacted by rising
oceans.
«The human impact on
global climate is small, and any warming that may occur as a result of human carbon dioxide (CO2) and other greenhouse gas emissions is likely to have little effect on
global temperatures, the cryosphere (ice - covered
areas), hydrosphere (
oceans, lakes, and rivers), or weather.
Translated by Google from this press release in German at the Alfred Wegener Institute in Germany: Never so much sea ice at Antarctica in the last 30 years In light of
global warming, it seems paradoxical that the sea ice cover of the Southern
Ocean has covered a larger
area in the past month than...
The current
global network of protected
areas is quite extensive, covering 17 million square kilometers of land and 2 million square kilometers of
oceans.
So how our environmental future plays out now is that as the poles melt, the
ocean heats, and water surface
area increases, atmospheric H2O skyrockets and some time later as the temperature passes through 4 deg C heading for 5 deg C
global temperature rise, the
ocean currents start to stall.
Is it fair then to call the missing warming after around 1930 - 1940 of
areas in shelter of
ocean air a
global problem for the CO2 - theory?