The ocean isn’t alright.
The seas, which hold some 332,519,000 cubic miles of water, are warming, rising, acidifying, and losing oxygen. And a new comprehensive U.N. climate special report, released Wednesday, presents an encyclopedic review of how Earth’s oceans and ice sheets have been altered as the world relentlessly warms.
Over 100 scientists from 36 nations (who cited over 6,900 studies) wrote the stark dispatch, called the “Special Report on the Ocean and Cryosphere in a Changing Climate.”
Today’s disrupted seas, though, are just the inception of the ocean’s transition. That’s because the oceans are the true keeper of climate change: Most of the heat humanity traps on the planet gets soaked up by the ocean. And modern civilization won’t stop saturating the atmosphere with heat-trapping carbon dioxide anytime soon. Read more…
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