But they are very sensitive to changes in
ocean chemistry resulting from human activity.
But they are very sensitive to changes in
ocean chemistry resulting from greenhouse gas emissions, as well as to coastal pollution, warming waters, overdevelopment, and overfishing.
Not exact matches
This means that the sudden appearance of rangeomorphs at large size could have been a direct
result of major changes in climate and
ocean chemistry.
The rapid technology development is expected to lead to more exciting discoveries of the
ocean and its physics,
chemistry, and biology, which may
result in breakthrough in earth system science.
On a multi-century time - scale,
results of simple models based on well - known carbon
chemistry show that the
ocean should take up 70 - 80 % of all the anthropogenic CO2 emitted to the atmosphere (22).
The
result of putting more carbon into the atmosphere than can be taken out of it is a warmer climate, a melting Arctic, higher sea levels, improvements in the photosynthetic efficiency of many plants, an intensification of the hydrologic cycle of evaporation and precipitation, and new
ocean chemistry.
In their statement, the scientific academies say the
oceans have absorbed about a quarter of the carbon dioxide emitted to the atmosphere by human activities since the industrial revolution,
resulting in rapid and irreversible changes in
ocean chemistry.
The rapid uptake of heat energy and CO2 by the
ocean results in a series of concomitant changes in seawater carbonate
chemistry, including reductions in pH and carbonate saturation state, as well as increases in dissolved CO2 and bicarbonate ions [3]: a phenomenon defined as
ocean acidification.
To investigate changes in
ocean chemistry that could
result from higher temperatures and carbon - dioxide concentrations, the researchers used an Earth - system model called the Integrated Science Assessment Model.