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Deep, old water explains why Antarctic Ocean hasn't warmed
2016-05-30 10:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
PhysOrg: The waters surrounding Antarctica may be one of the last places to experience human-driven climate change. New research from the University of Washington and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology finds that ocean currents explain why the seawater has stayed at roughly the same temperature while most of the rest of the planet has warmed. The study resolves a scientific conundrum, and an inconsistent pattern of warming often seized on...
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Arctic Ocean methane does not reach the atmosphere
2016-05-30 04:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ScienceDaily: 250 methane flares release the climate gas methane from the seabed and into the Arctic Ocean. During the summer months this leads to an increased methane concentration in the ocean. But surprisingly, very little of the climate gas rising up through the sea reaches the atmosphere. "Our results are exciting and controversial," says senior scientist Cathrine Lund Myhre from NILU -- Norwegian Institute for Air Research, who is cooperating with CAGE through MOCA project. The results were published...
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Few Britons have ever heard of ocean acidification
2016-05-27 08:50:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: If youve heard of ocean acidification, youre in the minority. If you know that ocean acidification is caused by carbon pollution from burning fossil fuels and cutting down rainforests, youre practically a scholar. A new poll published in Nature Climate Change finds that around 80% of the British public has never heard of ocean acidification. It is sobering to think that few people are aware of this process given its widespread risks for the natural environment, and the potential knock-on effects...
Abrupt Atlantic Ocean changes may have been natural
2016-05-24 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate Home: Climate change may not have been to blame for an abrupt recent slowdown of a sweeping Atlantic Ocean current, a change that delivered an intense pulse of ocean warming and sea level rise through the Gulf of Maine and elsewhere along the East Coast. Modeling-based analysis by British scientists, published Monday in Nature Geoscience, concluded that the decline in the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation (AMOC) from 2004 to 2014 was "part of decadal variability of the North Atlantic,' representing...
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A Map of Five Trillion Pieces of Plastic in the Ocean
2016-05-24 10:06:22| Waste Age
A map from New Zealandbased data visualization firm Dumpark posted at Vox shows how much plastic is floating in the ocean and where the five trillion pieces of it are clustered. read more
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