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Is the Pacific Ocean Responsible for a Pause in Global Warming?
2013-08-28 21:57:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Scientific American: From the 1940s through the 1970s there was no major warming trend in the average surface temperature of Earth. At the same time, the tropical Pacific Ocean, which is responsible for the weather patterns known as El Nio and La Nia that can swing global average temperatures by as much as 0.3 degree Celsius, was anomalously cold. For the past decade or so the tropical Pacific has again gone cold--more Nia than Nio--and a new study suggests that the phenomenon may explain the recent "pause" in global...
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Launching of the Ship Ocean Osprey at Zamakona Yards Pasajes
2013-08-28 15:28:00| Ship Technology
On August 21st, Zamakona yards group successfully completed the launching of the ship "Ocean Osprey" at its facilities in Pasajes (northern Spain).
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Ocean Acidification Poses Threat to Wide Range of Animal Life, Study Shows
2013-08-26 22:32:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Nature World News: As the ocean continues to grow more acidic, many marine animals will face negative consequences, though to varying degrees due to differences in bodily functions, according to a new study published in the journal Nature Climate Change. The world's oceans are responsible for absorbing more than a quarter of the carbon dioxide emitted through human activity, thus acting as a stabilizing force for the Earth's global temperatures. However, such storage is not limitless nor without its consequences....
Ocean Acidification Could Amplify Global Warming, Study Says
2013-08-26 18:31:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Yale Environment 360: The increasing acidification of the worlds oceans caused by rising concentrations of atmospheric carbon dioxide not only poses a threat to marine creatures, but also could lead to an intensification of planetary warming, according to a new study. A team of U.S., British, and German researchers conducted experiments in seawater enclosures, known as mesocosms, showing that the increasing acidification of the ocean leads to a drop in production of an important sulfur compound, dimethylsulphide, or...
Papers Find Mixed Impacts on Ocean Species from Rising CO2
2013-08-26 17:51:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New York Times: Britains Royal Society has published a helpful new collection of papers in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B that provide fresh insights on how the global buildup of carbon dioxide released by human activities could affect ocean ecology. The work adds to a growing body of science pointing to large changes, with some types of marine organisms and ecosystems seemingly able to adjust and even thrive, while others ail. And its quite clear that regions already heavily affected by other...
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