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The abundance of life on these outer islands supports the emerging idea that there will be refugia of coral survival and recovery dotting the planet as we face an increasingly difficult ocean climate for reef ecosystems.

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The new report «Lights Out for the Reef», written by University of Queensland coral reef biologist Selina Ward, noted that reefs were vulnerable to several different effects of climate change; including rising sea temperatures and increased carbon dioxide in the ocean, which causes acidification.

While this is bad news for the planet, it's good news for climate change scientists who have — for the last two decades — puzzled over warming trends in ocean surface temperatures for nearly 20 years.

A research team is reporting a «glimmer of hope» for ocean coral threatened by climate change, after successfully breeding baby coral on Australia's iconic...

A geophysicist at the University of Washington and director of the Joint Institute for the Study of the Atmosphere and Ocean, he is at the forefront of research on geoengineering, a science that focuses on manipulating the environment to, among other ends, combat climate change.

It was and remains the original North Coast ocean - exposure area, allowing for high acidity along with the growth restraints from the climate and soil type to force lots of flavor in the grapes.

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This move would allow the agency to continue funding for several Earth Science missions slated for elimination in the request, including Orbiting Carbon Observatory - 3 (OCO - 3), Plankton, Aerosols, Clouds, ocean Ecosystem (PACE), and Climate Absolute Radiance and Refractivity Observatory (CLARREO) Pathfinder.

Climate Change as a Threat Multiplier SHERRI GOODMAN, Senior Fellow, Wilson Center CHRISTINE GREENE, Cultural Ambassador, Pacific Rising GREG STONE, EVP & Chief Scientist for Oceans, Conservation International

When combined with overfishing, climate change, fertilizer runoff — induced dead zones and other human impacts on ocean fishes, a watery evolutionary stage has been set for a jellyfish takeover — dubbed the «gelatinous ocean» by some scientists.

Hill leads an NSF - supported program for future K - 12 science teachers to help infuse their classrooms with climate change science, and an industry - academic partnership to understand the consequences of ocean acidification on shellfish farmers.

In 2016, she received a Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE) in part for bringing ocean and climate change science into K - 12 classrooms.

Not even the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has managed to muster much enthusiasm for the technology: it recently estimated that the ocean's maximum contribution to the global energy budget would not exceed a paltry 1 to 2 per cent by 2050.

Essential for Earth's life and climate, nitrogen is an element that cycles between soils and the atmosphere and between the atmosphere and the ocean.

Gerald Meehl, a climate scientist at the National Center for Atmospheric Research who was also an author on the paper, said this research expanded on past work, including his own research, that pointed to the Interdecadal Pacific Oscillation as a factor in a warming slowdown by finding a mechanism behind how the Pacific Ocean was able to store enough heat to produce a pause in surface warming.

For instance, next year the ship JOIDES Resolution is scheduled to drill into the floor of the Pacific Ocean to extract rock cores that will span the period from about 53 million to 18 million years ago, a time of vast climate change.

Funding for climate research would drop 19 percent, weather and air chemistry research 25 percent and ocean, coastal and Great Lakes research by 49 percent.

A study led by scientists at the GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel shows that the ocean currents influence the heat exchange between ocean and atmosphere and thus can explain climate variability on decadal time scOcean Research Kiel shows that the ocean currents influence the heat exchange between ocean and atmosphere and thus can explain climate variability on decadal time scocean currents influence the heat exchange between ocean and atmosphere and thus can explain climate variability on decadal time scocean and atmosphere and thus can explain climate variability on decadal time scales.

Human - caused climate change, ocean acidification and species extinctions may eventually threaten the collapse of civilization, according to some scientists, while other people argue that for political or economic reasons we should allow industrial development to continue without restrictions.

A new report by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine finds that continuity of ocean observations is vital to gain an accurate understanding of the climate, and calls for a decadal, national plan that is adequately resourced and implemented to ensure critical ocean information is available to understand and predict future changes.

Global climate models need to account for what Meehl calls «slowly varying systems» — how warmer air gradually heats the ocean, for example, and what effect this warming ocean then has on the air.

Given that ocean observations for climate provide a wide range of benefits to the agricultural, shipping, fishing, insurance, and energy - supply industries, the committee that wrote the report suggested that efforts could be made to draw support for ocean observing from the commercial sector.

Research reported earlier this year hinted that events in the stratosphere might directly affect the oceans, but those findings were based on a single climate model and a computer simulation that modeled the stratosphere for a relatively short 260 years.

Yeh said the team's approach could also be used to study how four or more pharmaceuticals interact, and a similar mathematical framework could be used to better understand climate change (for example, to understand how temperature, rainfall, humidity and acidity of the oceans interact) and other scientific questions that have three or more key factors.

The framework would be useful for solving other questions in the sciences and social sciences in which researchers analyze how three or more components might interact — for example, how climate is affected by the interplay among temperature, rainfall, humidity and ocean acidity.

For decades, ocean water has been moving westward underground toward these existing drinking supplies for reasons other than climate change, including historical drainage of inland areas for agricultural developmeFor decades, ocean water has been moving westward underground toward these existing drinking supplies for reasons other than climate change, including historical drainage of inland areas for agricultural developmefor reasons other than climate change, including historical drainage of inland areas for agricultural developmefor agricultural development.

They identified 10 environmental limits we might not want to transgress in the Anthropocene: aerosol pollution; biodiversity loss; chemical pollution; climate change; freshwater use; changes in land use (forests to fields, for example); nitrogen and phosphorus cycles; ocean acidity; and the ozone hole.

The request also calls for canceling five NASA earth science missions, including an operating Earth - facing camera on the Deep Space Climate Observatory satellite and the planned Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud, ocean Ecosystem satellite, set for launch in 2022, which would assess the ocean's health and its interactions with the atmosphere.

These findings from University of Melbourne Scientists at the ARC Centre of Excellence for Climate System Science, reported in Nature Climate Change, are the result of research looking at how Australian extremes in heat, drought, precipitation and ocean warming will change in a world 1.5 °C and 2 °C warmer than pre-industrial conditions.

«Considering the Southern Ocean absorbs something like 60 % of heat and anthropogenic CO2 that enters the ocean, this wind has a noticeable effect on global warming,» said lead author Dr Andy Hogg from the Australian National University Hub of the ARC Centre of Excellence for Climate System SciOcean absorbs something like 60 % of heat and anthropogenic CO2 that enters the ocean, this wind has a noticeable effect on global warming,» said lead author Dr Andy Hogg from the Australian National University Hub of the ARC Centre of Excellence for Climate System Sciocean, this wind has a noticeable effect on global warming,» said lead author Dr Andy Hogg from the Australian National University Hub of the ARC Centre of Excellence for Climate System Science.

«Alaska really is both the poster child for the impact of climate change and a warning for the dramatic changes that are coming to the rest of the United States and the planet,» said Whit Sheard, director of the Ocean Conservancy's International Arctic Program.

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 is true for both types of models — those driven with observed sea surface temperatures, and the coupled climate models that simulate evolution of both the atmosphere and ocean and are thus not expected to yield the real - world evolution of the PDO.

Steinman and his team's approach is «novel for a couple of reasons,» says Ben Booth, a climate scientist at the Met Office Hadley Centre in Exeter, U.K.. Although it's already widely accepted in the community that the Pacific Ocean plays a large role, this paper gives a much longer time context, he says, highlighting the role of both oceans over many decades.

In addition to the strongest impact of climate change in Polar Regions, Southern Ocean is now subject to industrial fishing, and penguins may soon have a very hard time fighting for their food.

This model is widely used by both UK and international groups for research into ocean circulation, climate and marine ecosystems, and operationally as part of the UK Met Office's weather forecasting.

But now researchers appear to have a straightforward explanation for the contradiction: sulphate pollution generated in industrialised areas starts a chain reaction which changes the pattern of climates to bring colder winds to the North Atlantic and North Pacific oceans.

The long - term geological record reveals an early Cenozoic warm climate that supported smaller polar ecosystems, few coral - algal reefs, expanded shallow - water platforms, longer food chains with less energy for top predators, and a less oxygenated ocean than today.

But the presence of oceans is vital for optimal climate stability and habitability.

It calls for greater coordination to adapt to climate change from both sides of the Atlantic Ocean and urges Europe to lead by example, striving to meet the European Union's own ambitious climate and energy goals for 2020.

«We're trying to understand how what we're doing to the Earth's atmosphere and oceans will play out in the future,» says Bette Otto - Bliesner, who runs a full - complexity climate model — and its 1.5 million lines of code — through a supercomputer named Yellowstone at the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder.

The presence of oceans is vital for optimal climate stability and habitability, according to a new article.

The budget provides only $ 58 million for climate research instead of the requested $ 89 million, and $ 10 million for ocean acidification research rather than the requested jump to $ 30 million.

The study shows that changes in heat distribution between the ocean basins is important for understanding future climate change.

We've narrowed the uncertainty in surface warming projections by generating thousands of climate simulations that each closely match observational records for nine key climate metrics, including warming and ocean heat content.»

More and more prominent climate and energy scientists have expressed support for studies into various geoengineering approaches, such as sequestering carbon in the ocean by growing large swaths of algae.

And Sawe has started working with the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute to explore some of their Pacific Ocean data for another data sonification project down the road that could add another song to the soundtrack of climate change.

According to the findings, the extent of Arctic sea ice and its seasonal distribution clearly have broad impacts on Arctic climate that extend beyond the Arctic Ocean itself and have important implications for the future of the Arctic system.

«A decline in the saturation state of carbonate minerals, especially aragonite, is a good indicator of a rise in ocean acidification,» said Li - Qing Jiang, an oceanographer with NOAA's Cooperative Institute for Climate and Satellites at the University of Maryland and lead author.

The articles included 80 on climate change (47 percent); 66 on the status of a species or population (39 percent); 52 on pollution (31 percent); 23 on offshore drilling (14 percent); and five on aquaculture, which is a method for farming ocean species (3 percent).