Sentences with phrase «ocean experts say»
For instance, political imperatives are prompting the rebuilding of sections of New Orleans that coastal and ocean experts say are inevitably going to be immersed.
https://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/ Not exact matches
Experts say the bleaching has been triggered by global warming and El Nino, a warming of parts of the Pacific Ocean that changes weather worldwide.
«For the first time, we have used a geophysical method to determine the internal structure of Enceladus, and the data suggest that indeed there is a large, possibly regional ocean about 50 kilometers below the surface of the south pole,» says David Stevenson, the Marvin L. Goldberger Professor of Planetary Science at Caltech and an expert in studies of the interior of planetary bodies.
«We've shown that under clean and humid conditions, like those that exist over the ocean and some land in the tropics, tiny aerosols have a big impact on weather and climate and can intensify storms a great deal,» said Fan, an expert on the effects of pollution on storms and weather.
Both the 2005 and 2010 droughts were the result of a «very, very unusual» weather pattern linked to higher sea surface temperatures in the Atlantic Ocean, said lead author Simon Lewis, a tropical forests expert at the University of Leeds.
«There is huge potential for the amount of marine debris in the oceans to increase significantly,» said lead author James Carlton, an invasive species expert with the Maritime Studies Program of Williams College and Mystic Seaport in Connecticut.
Global warming is also contributing to the rising ocean temperatures on the whole, but «the warming of the ocean alone is not sufficient to explain what we see,» said Eric Rignot, a glacier expert at the University of California, Irvine, in an emailed comment on the new study.
We still don't know enough about tar sand oil, or bitumen, which takes longer to break down due to its high viscosity, but doesn't spread, we also don't know much about the behavior of oil from a blowout, such as the Deepwater Horizon BP blowout, and we know little of how crude oil behaves in the Arctic Ocean, where there is ice, or how to remediate it,» said Michel Boufadel, director of NJIT's Center for Natural Resources Development and Protection and a member of the panel of experts charged with evaluating the impact of spills in Northern waters.
«Anyone who has spent time on the ocean over the last 20 or 30 years will tell you that they used to see lots of sharks and that they don't anymore,» says Boris Worm, a marine conservation biologist and leading expert in shark populations at Dalhousie University in Canada.
Surveys are now occurring in, or proposed for, many previously unexploited regions including parts of the Arctic Ocean and off the U.S. Atlantic coast,» said Douglas P. Nowacek, an expert on marine ecology and bioacoustics at Duke University.
«New international standards needed to manage ocean noise: Growing use of high - decibel seismic surveys to explore the ocean for resources poses increased risks to vulnerable marine life, experts say.»
About 75 percent of the Earth's surface is covered in water, which makes an ocean splashdown likely, NASA and experts have said.
«A fundamental question has been whether we can directly link expansion of harmful algal blooms to a warming ocean; this paper provides critical, quantitative evidence for just that trend, confirming an expected, but difficult to test, direct link between toxic blooms to climate,» said Dr. Raphael Kudela, Professor of Ocean Sciences, University of California Santa Cruz, a national toxic algae expert who was not part of the socean; this paper provides critical, quantitative evidence for just that trend, confirming an expected, but difficult to test, direct link between toxic blooms to climate,» said Dr. Raphael Kudela, Professor of Ocean Sciences, University of California Santa Cruz, a national toxic algae expert who was not part of the sOcean Sciences, University of California Santa Cruz, a national toxic algae expert who was not part of the study.
«This study shows for the first time that the oxidation of hydrogen sulfide and ammonia from the bottom waters could be a major contributor to lower pH in coastal oceans and may lead to more rapid acidification in coastal waters compared to the open ocean,» said Cai, the paper's lead author and an expert in marine chemistry and carbon's movement through coastal waters.
Remember our space expert Mark Boslough said that a tsunami arising from a comet landing in the ocean may be possible.
84 per cent of the 106 experts surveyed on the Atlantic, Pacific Caribbean, Mediterranean and Indian ocean coast, who responded said they had found turtles tangled in rubbish, including plastic debris and lost or disgarded fishing gear.
In fact, experts now claim that no ocean in the world is free from this plastic pollution and several have said that this is the most dire issue facing our ocean and our planet today.
The ocean will always ebb and flow, but as mindfulness expert Jon Kabat - Zinn has said, «You can't stop the waves, but you can learn to surf.»
Located in the Indo - Pacific Area, in the Coral Triangle of marine biodiversity, experts say that the oceans surrounding Papua New Guinea have up to twice as many marine species as the waters of the Red Sea and up to five times as many as the Caribbean.
«Climate change presents a very real risk,» said Carl Wunsch, a climate and oceans expert at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Igor Polyakov, an ice expert at the University of Alaska, Fairbanks, said that heat banked in ocean waters appears to be the main force driving the ice shrinkage this summer, while last year wind patterns were the main factor.
They published a paper in Science today described here Antarctic Oceans Absorbing Less CO2, Experts Say and here http://www.nature.com/news/2007/070514/full/070514-18.html
Most experts deeply probing the Arctic ice, ocean and atmosphere say that the particularly striking ice changes of late probably can be traced to a significant dose of natural variability as well as a contribution from heat trapped by the atmosphere's building greenhouse - gas blanket.
Experts with the National Snow and Ice Data Center say formation of sea ice around the Arctic Ocean probably petered out about two weeks ago.
«Experts in France and Spain said on Sunday that the oceans took up more warmth from the air around 2000.
If this was a murder trial, our crime scene FBI experts would be would be saying that the carbon from fossil fuels are the guilty party, not natural sources, such as volcanoes or the ocean.
Some experts say temperatures will surely fall, while others claim that warming is hiding in the ocean deeps just waiting to climb out - your choice as to which view is correct.
«Their results provide strong support for the idea that ENSO may be more responsive to global change than previously thought,» said Dr. Julia Cole, an expert in ocean - climate links at the University of Arizona, in a separate paper in Science that evaluates the research.
Other experts say there is no time for nuance, given the general lack of public response to the threat posed particularly by carbon dioxide, a by - product of fossil fuels and forests that persists for a century or more in the air and is accumulating rapidly in the atmosphere and changing the pH of the oceans.
Global warming is also contributing to the rising ocean temperatures on the whole, but «the warming of the ocean alone is not sufficient to explain what we see,» said Eric Rignot, a glacier expert at the University of California, Irvine, in an emailed comment on the new study.
But winters are long there, so there's still plenty of time, said experts, for the ocean surface to freeze after the water cools and the warm air stops funneling north.
«Driven by exceptionally warm ocean waters, Earth smashed a record for heat in May and is likely to keep on breaking high temperature marks, experts say.
No one knows exactly how much radioactive pollution has entered the ocean, but most experts say it should be rapidly diluted once it spreads out into the Pacific and fish caught outside the immediate area would pose little health concern.
Some experts are even saying that 1/3 of the oceans should fall under a 20 - year fishing ban.
Some experts even say we could put it in the ocean (but that seems a bigger risk, given the altered ocean chemistry).
Weaver said he never received a reply, nor has he, with an academic background in ocean physics, been asked by federal officials for his expert opinion (politics aside) on the consequences of diluted - bitumen spill from the Trans Mountain pipeline.
But that's a drop in the ocean of what experts say is necessary to change the fate of New Mexico's children.