Sentences with phrase «rising ocean temperatures caused»

While tropical storms and hurricanes start in the atmosphere, ocean temperatures can dictate their intensity, and rising ocean temperatures caused by climate change can make the storms more deadly.

The scientists state that rising ocean temperatures caused by global warming are the culprit.

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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.

The team have now found that a rise in ocean temperature of only 2 °C would cause some algae to stop producing DMS.

The rising temperatures cause layers of ocean water to stratify so the more oxygen - rich surface waters are less able to mix with oxygen - poor waters from the deeper ocean.

Unless the seepage rate of sequestered carbon dioxide can be held to 1 percent every 1,000 years, overall temperature rise could still reach dangerous levels that cause sea level rise and ocean acidification, concludes the research published yesterday in Nature Geoscience.

Climate change has caused ocean temperatures to rise, a trend that will continue in the coming centuries even if fossil fuel emissions are curtailed.

The researchers say that rising ocean temperatures, driven by human - caused climate change, are mostly to blame.

As ocean temperatures rise and oceanic diseases proliferate, species like sea stars struggle to survive, and scientists are looking for underlying causes.

The Sheffield scientists have shown that the rise in ocean temperatures has caused an increase in the number of severe hurricanes and typhoons, such as Hurricane Katrina, which devastated New Orleans in 2005, and Typhoon Haiyan, which caused massive destruction in the Philippines in 2013.

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The only time period that remotely resembles the ocean changes happening today, based on geologic records, was 56 million years ago when carbon mysteriously doubled in the atmosphere, global temperatures rose by approximately six degrees and ocean pH dropped sharply, driving up ocean acidity and causing a mass extinction among single - celled ocean organisms.

Hotter air on the Earth's surface leads to higher ocean temperatures, which causes ocean expansion and sea level rise;

As greenhouse gases cause global temperatures to rise, however, sharks are once again swimming in oceans that are warmer and more acidic, forcing them to adapt to their new environment.

As a result of rising ocean temperatures coral bleaching is becoming more common, and it's causing a biotic homogenization of local fish populations.

Scientists at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration warn that the continued rise in ocean temperatures in the Pacific and Atlantic is causing the massive coral bleaching on reefs in the Northern Hemisphere.

Meanwhile, as oceans heat up, thermal expansion causes sea levels that are already rising from the melting of land ice (triggered by higher air and sea temperatures) to rise even more.

El Niño is a natural phenomenon occuring every five years or so that causes sea surface temperatures to rise in the equatorial Pacific Ocean.

The symptoms from those events (huge and rapid carbon emissions, a big rapid jump in global temperatures, rising sea levels, ocean acidification, widespread oxygen - starved zones in the oceans) are all happening today with human - caused climate change.

Source: Lyman 2010 The reaction of the oceans to climate change are some of the most profound across the entire environment, including disruption of the ocean food chain through chemical changes caused by CO2, the ability of the sea to absorb CO2 being limited by temperature increases, (and the potential to expel sequestered CO2 back into the atmosphere as the water gets hotter), sea - level rise due to thermal expansion, and the amount of water vapour in the atmosphere.

Global warming causes ocean temperatures to rise, resulting in an increased loss of oxygen, which can then affect the nitrogen budget across the globe.

With water pollution and temperatures on the rise, toxic algae cause serious problems nowadays for inland waters and for the oceans.

Scientists say there are many factors that have caused the coral destruction: rising ocean temperatures ~ increased storms in the area ~ agricultural fertilizer washing into the reef area and lots of starfish (especially the crown - of - thorns) are eating the...

CBS Rising Ocean Temperatures The Likely Cause For More Than 100 Sea Lions Pups Needing Care At Marine Mammal Center In Sausalito

Rising temperatures will cause outgassing of CO2 from the oceans, but its C12 / C13 ratio will be that of the atmosphere when sinking thermohaline circulation took the CO2 from the atmosphere ~ 1600 years ago, which is different from fossil fuels.

If you believe unforced variation is the cause, please explain why both the oceans and surface temperatures are rising.

But if something causes heat to be transferred from the ocean surface into its deeps more rapidly than usual, ocean surface temperatures could rise more slowly, not rise at all, or even fall despite the increased backradiation.

Gavin, I agree completely with the standard picture that you describe, but I don't agree with the claim that ``... as surface temperatures and the ocean heat content are rising together, it almost certainly rules out intrinsic variability of the climate system as a major cause for the recent warming».

«Firstly, as surface temperatures and the ocean heat content are rising together, it almost certainly rules out intrinsic variability of the climate system as a major cause for the recent warming»

J.E.N. Veron, former chief scientist of the Australian Institute of Marine Science, writes that human pollution of the water, as well as human - generated carbon dioxide emissions which are causing ocean acidification and rising ocean temperatures are rapidly killing off corals.

Scientists» measurements, over the last 30 years or so, seem to reflect a steady increase in CO2 emissions, which seem to be causing both a rise in temperature and change in ocean ph toward acidity.

Teaser image: Bleached, dead coral on the Great Barrier Reef in Australia caused by rising ocean temperatures.

These emissions have caused the Earth's surface temperature to rise, and the oceans absorb about 80 percent of this additional heat.

Rising temperatures and acidification threaten to create a hostile ocean environment that will cause a serious collapse in the food chain.

Unfortunately, every article I have read that explains why hurricane strength is anticipated to increase merely cites the observed link between hurricane strength and ocean temperature, without explaining why CO2 would cause water tempertaures to rise more than that of the air above it.

«As a coastal city located on the tip of a peninsula, San Francisco is vulnerable to sea level rise, and human activities releasing greenhouse gases into the atmosphere cause increases in worldwide average temperature, which contribute to melting of glaciers and thermal expansion of ocean water — resulting in rising sea levels,» the ordinance reads.

Small changes in global sea level or a rise in ocean temperatures could cause a breakup of the two buttressing ice shelves.

The cause of this temperature rise is still disputed by scientists, but research suggests the natural release of large stores of CO2 from the world's oceans may have played a role.

This is not the case in the Arctic where loss of ice from the Greenland Ice Sheet (GIS) and Canadian Islands is caused by rising atmospheric temperature and a warming Arctic ocean.

The symptoms from those events (a big, rapid jump in global temperatures, rising sea levels, and ocean acidification) are all happening today with human - caused climate change.

«New scientific evidence that the world's oceans... warmed significantly... ocean energy is the primary cause of extreme climate events... increasing the number of insurance - relevant hazards... a near irreversible shift... even if greenhouse gas emissions stopped, ocean temperatures would keep rising.»

The immediate cause is clear: the ongoing rise in global ocean temperatures that comes from climate change.

Like dozens of previous assessments their report concluded that human activities were, «causing surface air temperature and subsurface ocean temperatures to rise.»

As temperatures rise around the world, one of the obvious consequences is the melting of ice on Earth, which in turn causes water levels in the world's oceans and seas to rise.

The main reason soaring greenhouse gas emissions have not caused air temperatures to rise more rapidly is that oceans have soaked up much of the heat.

On the face of it, for the layman, temperature rises causing CO2 to come out of the ocean, with no feedback effect, seems like a perfectly reasonable explanation.

Rising surface temperatures in the last three decades of the 20th century were roughly half caused by man - made global warming and half by the ocean currents keeping more heat near the surface, it finds.

Depletion of fish stocks in one region due to ocean temperature rise can cause impacts on the price of fish everywhere.

At low altitude and high temperatures (greater than 30 °C or 86 °F), over the ocean, it can reach 4.3 % or more of the atmosphere and is less dense than dry air, causing it to rise.

Global warming leads to rising temperatures of the oceans and the earth» surface causing melting of polar ice caps, rise in sea levels and also unnatural patterns of precipitation such as flash floods, excessive snow or desertification.