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The Pacific Ocean fills in another piece of the global warming puzzle
2013-09-03 06:58:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: A new study published in the journal Nature incorporates temperature changes in the tropical Pacific Ocean into an advanced climate model, and finds that the model can reproduce observed global surface temperature changes remarkably well. Importantly, as authors Yu Kosaka and Shang-Ping Xie from the Scripps Institution of Oceanography explain, accounting for the changes in the Pacific Ocean allows the model to reproduce the slowed global surface warming over the past 15 years. It also accurately...
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Ocean acidification exacerbating climate change damage
2013-09-02 04:20:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mongabay: As if ocean acidification and climate change werent troubling enough (both of which are caused by still-rising carbon emissions), new research published in Nature finds that ocean acidification will eventually exacerbate global warming, further raising the Earths temperature. Scientists have long known that tiny marine organismsphytoplanktonare central to cooling the world by emitting an organic compound known as dimethylsulphide (DMS). DMS, which contains sulfur, enters the atmosphere and helps...
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Ocean acidification threatens California
2013-09-01 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Sacramento Bee: Making a living from the ocean is not for the faint of heart. Its comparable to farming the soil, in that weather, disease and market conditions can make or break your bottom line. Food production, whether farming on land or in water, is dependent upon a number of factors all working in sync to produce a healthy, resilient crop. If just one factor is off, it can ruin your whole harvest. A recently recognized threat to ocean health has the potential to do more than just inflict a bad year on shellfish...
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Ocean dead zone a mystery in Oregon
2013-09-01 15:36:36| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Dalles Chronicle: The oceans cover over two-thirds of our planets surface, making it hard to imagine we humans could do them much damage. Unfortunately, along with ocean acidification, global warming and the Giant Pacific Trash Vortex, ocean dead zones are increasingly in the news. Dead zones are the popular name for hypoxic regions, areas in an ocean or large lake depleted of oxygen. When oxygen levels drop too low, fish or other animals that can move fast enough flee the area. Crabs, starfish, clams and other...
Global Warming Hiatus Tied to Cooler Temperatures in Pacific Ocean: A Study
2013-08-28 23:32:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Nature World: A team of researchers believe they have identified the cause behind the much-cited slowdown in global warming that has taken place over the last decade and a half or so, pointing to cooler temperatures in the eastern Pacific Ocean as the likely cause. Between 1950 and 2000, global temperatures rose at a rate of 0.13 degrees Celsius per decade, according to NOAA. Since then, however, this rate has dropped to roughly 0.05 degrees Celsius, Raw Story reports. This so-called "global warming hiatus"...
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