Warmer Oceans
Due to global warming
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Warmer oceans affect weather patterns and cause more powerful tropical storms.
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Warmer oceans can affect sea levels, coastlines, ocean currents, sea water, sea surface temperature, tides, the seafloor, weather, and changes in geochemistry.
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An increase in the storm frequency means less time for more sensitive habitats to recover.
What is the effect of warmer oceans to the animals that live in the ocean?
Research has shown that krill reproduce in smaller numbers when ocean temperatures rise. This can have a effect by disrupting the life cycle of krill eaters, and also causes food shortages for higher predators
- Warmer sea temperatures are also associated with the spread of invasive species and marine diseases
- The only way to reduce ocean temperatures is to dramatically reign in our emission of greenhouse gases but even if we immediately dropped carbon dioxide emissions, the gases we've already released would take a long time to dissipate
- The solubility of CO2 in water decreases as temperatures increase
Warmer oceans are also the lead to melting from below of polar ice shelves, leading to shelf collapses
Water that is 1,500 feet below the surface increases in temperature as well as outside bounds of natural variation.
Warmer oceans can impact the life of sea animals and the coral reefs
Oceans absorbed as much heat.
20 times as much as the atmosphere
ocean rising temperatures has killed off coral reefs.