How Our Oceans Affected By Climate Change

Climate change has affected us in many ways, but it was even more influential on organisms and their community. The Earth is gradually heating and we are left to deal with the consequences. Homes are being destroyed, organisms are dying, and resources are running low. Since 1880, Our Earth’s temperature had increased by about 0.8 degrees Celsius. Climate change is affecting the Earth and scientists say that one more degree will greatly affect people from all over the world. There are many consequences of climate change and each one has a great impact on all of us, but organisms’ homes are being destroyed and thousands of species are dying out. These organisms are imperative to our world and how it functions.

Climate change is affecting oceans tremendously. Threats faced by the ocean planet seem uncontrollable. In the face of overfishing, pollution, and climate change it may seem like a drop in the bucket. With the amount of light reaching onto the shore, plants should be reduced in order for the rising sea levels to fall. Oceans have also absorbed tons of carbon dioxide from the earth’s atmosphere causing ocean acidification. Coral bleaching is caused by high water temperatures leading to coral death, and can turn into a negative impact on the entire coral ecosystem. We intend to provide options a single person can take in order to help the cause and make a difference. Our mission is to conserve the Earth’s living heritage, our global

Over the years, climate change has affected marine species because it has increased the ocean temperature, causing it to get warmer, which is causing a negative impact to most marine organisms like echinoderms and cnidarians (Quinn, 2016). In many cases, the optimum temperature of growth increased 1-6°C, which created harmful effects on stages of development (Quinn, 2016). In some cases such as the American lobster (Homarus americanus), warming of the ocean had caused smaller body sizes (Le Bris et al., 2016). Even though there is some research that showed that the warm temperature could also benefit the lobster’s population, most of their population has declined in the warmest and southernmost regions of the lobster’s range in places like southern New England and Long Island Sound (Quinn, 2016).

Climate change affects people and nature in countless ways, and it often increases existing threats that have already put pressure on the environment.

"We call them dumb animals, and so they are, for they cannot tell us how they feel, but they do not suffer less because they have no words” (Anna Sewell). There is undeniable evidence that animals are being affected by climate change. Even though the effects are difficult to measure, there are many different ways animals are being affected. With the loss of predator and prey species it affects the life cycles in the food chain. The earth’s climate change causes habitats such as snow, ice, or forest areas to alter, resulting in loss of habitat and food accessibility as well as causing extinction.

Anthropogenic activity has led to greatly increased emissions of greenhouses gases. Increased temperatures, acidification and stratification are all affected by increased carbon dioxide (CO2) concentrations. These symptoms of climate change have direct and indirect effects on to marine ecosystems, all of which start at the major primary producers of the oceans: phytoplankton.

Sadly, our coral reefs are dying everywhere. According to scientists over ninety percent of our coral reefs will die by 2050. Whether or not global warming increases or completely stops it is so far that these numbers remain. Just

If global warming does not stop coral reefs could be extinct from most of the world by the year 2100 even the Great Barrier Reef, the largest coral reef in the world, could be dead within 30 years if measures are not taken to slow climate change. The increase in global warming is having a negative effect on coral reefs and causing an expeditious increase in coral bleaching over the last 20 years.

The effects of climate change on coral reefs stem from the increase in carbon dioxide and the increase in atmospheric temperature. These two factors have the most drastic impact on the coral reefs and their ecosoytems surrounding. The first major effect of climate change is ocean acidification.

The pacific islands are known for being especially beautiful and the image of relaxation; palm trees, white sand beaches, smiling faces, and crystal blue water. When acknowledging this, it is hard to imagine that the islands are currently dealing with the changing climate’s negative effects. Climate change is the largest environmental issue currently affecting the earth where humans are referred to as frogs slowly cooking in a pot.[1] Despite the common knowledge that the earth’s atmosphere is heating to a dangerous level, humanity seems to be adapting to the changes in temperature, much like a boiling frog would before it is much too late. The same could be said about the Pacific islands in that they aren’t receiving enough help to deal with the increasing heat. Although climate change affects the earth as a whole, the Pacific Islands are more likely to feel its effects much quicker and are less likely to be able to deal with them on their own. It is very important to understand the impact it has on the people and their livelihoods, as well as the physical effects on the islands and their economy.

What do you know about global climate change? Do you think we create this problem in the twentieth-first century to damage our planet. This problem started at the beginning of civilization and became worse during the Industrial Revolution of the eighteenth century. Older generations generated more carbon dioxide into the atmosphere due to the burning of fossil fuel and deforestation. More carbon dioxide had a negative impact on the ecosystems of the planet. And the scientific definition of global climate represents changes in the earth’s weather and temperature. When higher greenhouse gas concentrates in the atmosphere, the earth becomes warmer. Water vapor, carbon dioxide, and methane are the gases that lead to the greenhouse effect. Pollution of the earth causes damage to the ozone layer in the atmosphere, and it’s easy for the sun rays to pass in the earth. Global climate change causes a negative impact on the environment and the world’s oceans.

Climate change seems like a big word, but if we were to decode its meaning, it would boil down to simply as a change in the earth’s weather patterns or average temperatures, which is both long term and at global scale (MetOffice, 2017). Global scale includes changes like melting of glaciers, rising sea levels, diminishing of endangered species, warmer summers, spreading of diseases, rampant floods, frequent droughts, stronger hurricanes etc. Interestingly, the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) defines it as a “change of climate that is attributed directly or indirectly to human activity, altering the composition of the global atmosphere” (Simon-Lewis, 2017). Thus, we need to analyze our activities which contribute to it. In order to formulate the argument that climate change is real and evident, I would like to show its real effects on biodiversity and also counter the arguments of non-believers.

Climate change is one of the major issues surfacing earth over the past century. The earth’s temperature has increased over the years leading to detrimental effects on the economic and life sources of people, especially that of agricultural production and livestock. The Merriam-Webster online dictionary (2014), defined climate change as a change in global climate patterns apparent from the mid late 20th century. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, IPCC, (2007) predicts that by 2100 the increase in global average surface temperature may be between 1.8° C and 4.0° C. With increases of 1.5° C to 2.5° C, approximately 20 to 30 percent of plant and animal species are expected to be at risk of extinction. Moreover, the IPCC (2007)

Climate change has been the culprit in global warming which in turn has decreased the animal populations due to the warming of the earth. Climate change has already caused the planet’s average temperature to rise by 1.6°F since the beginning of the 20th century. That temperature rise could reach 2.7°F above pre-industrial levels by the end of the century (and possibly as high as about 8.5°F above 1986-2005 levels) if nothing is done to curb emissions. (Thompson, 2014) Climate change has such a

Biodiversity is the variation of flora and fauna on the earth or in a particular region. Climate change effects biodiversity throughout the world through unbalancing temperatures. The change effects portions of ecosystems but due to the interlinking of these systems there structure & functioning will be significantly altered, leading into a knock on effect which will in turn cause more biodiversity reduction. The Biodiversity of a region requires time to adapt to prolonged temperature changes outside tolerance levels, in order to survive and if not the