Is Seafood Good For You?

A warming ocean has already killed large chunks of Australia’s Great Barrier Reef. On April 4, 2017, writer Eduardo Porter for The New York Times published an article called, “To Curb Global Warming, Science Fiction May Become Fact,” intended for the reader of the New York Times. The editorial talks about how if we don’t take action as soon as possible, climate change could indeed become a new thing. Scientist all over the world are discovering many areas throughout the planet that are increasing in temperature, and animals’ homes are being destroyed. The writer is able to create a better understanding on the dangers of a warming planet, by saying the earth is increasing in temperature all over the world, not only affecting different animals,

In the text the climate change effects the ocean by putting too much carbon dioxide into the oceans that are making the corals pron too bleach.

Our delicate eco-system is struggling to maintain it’s complex equilibrium. The precarious state of our oceans are largely attributed to the climate changes that are on going throughout earth. Along with consistently rising global temperatures come many devastating consequences. Our atmosphere is not the only aspect of our environment that is heating. Global warming is melting polar ice caps, raising water levels in our oceans, and releasing carbon that has been trapped in ice for thousands of years. The warmer air temperature is heating the surface waters of the ocean and creating more frequent and more powerful storms. These warmer surface waters are being pushed under in the ocean conveyor belt and the overall affect is a rise in overall ocean water temperatures. Climate change has been estimated to effect 88% of cetaceans and endangering nearly 21%. More specifically, each of these changes have harmful, potentially deadly and lasting effects on Bottlenose Dolphins. Ultimately causing dangerous and toxic conditions leading to an increase of dolphin strandings and death.

In this book, Roberts shares how the organisms in the ocean have been affected in the last few decades by the way society has advanced. He believes that the oceans have been negatively impacted and the waves, winds, and currents have a part in that as well. The winds/currents have been altered by the weather pattern and caused a setback in the oceans, affecting the ecosystems as well as the organisms. He concludes the book telling us how the ocean serves us and how we should respect it and want to help. This novel helped tremendously as it answered quite a few questions I had throughout

She then insinuates that because humans perceive the ocean as big and plentiful, that we can destroy it with the notion of forever food and resources, Earle shatters that ill-informed view of the oceans with word that the act of ocean preservation needs us more than ever. Partnered with Google Earth, Earle brings awareness to the oceans need, then declares that there is still time to fix what we’ve done, by establishing marine sanctuaries and creating an argument against large fishing fleets and mass fishing. At the end of her Ted Talk, Earle talks about her wish for the future. She wishes to get the word out about ocean preservation and restoration and create more ocean sanctuaries so the blue planet will be protected once

My passion for the ocean emerged at an early age. From my first encounter, the beauty and mystery of the ocean has captivated me. I was able to observe dolphins, sharks, crabs, and corals, and was staggered by the abundance of vibrant life that presides within the ocean. At this time, I didn’t realize that the ocean was facing many problems. When I was younger I didn’t pay much attention to the papers, but one day a photo caught my eye - sea creatures, slick with oil, dejectedly moving through the polluted ocean.

Rising temperatures are causing melting glaciers, which cause rising oceans. Rising oceans will envelop entire coastal cities, killing or displacing millions of people. Our food sources will dwindle; entire species of animals will become extinct as we destroy their homes to rebuild; and as our population skyrockets, an unimaginable number of humans will be left homeless, starving, and sick.

Global climate change is an issue being debated all over the world from the recent presidential debates late last year to documentaries being created on either side of the global warming debate. Currently, the world is experiencing many tremendous changes including warming or the earth and rising of our oceans. “The heat extremes were especially pervasive in the Arctic, with temperatures in the fall running 20 to 30 degrees Fahrenheit above normal across large stretches of the Arctic Ocean. Sea ice in that region has been in precipitous decline for years, and Arctic communities are already wrestling with enormous problems, such as rapid coastal erosion, caused by the changing climate” ”(Gillis, 2). Some believe that global warming exists while

Climate change is the increase in temperature of the Earth and its atmosphere. This has a huge effect on the world including Canadian ecosystem. Humans have added to this effect due to their irresponsible use of fossil fuels and polluting the environment increasing the amount of green house gases in the atmosphere. One of the results of climate change is ocean acidification, this occurs from the ocean absorbing the carbon from the atmosphere reacting with the water and forming carbonic acid. There are many different experiments done by multiple scientist exploring the effect that ocean acidification has on the environment and the species that live in it, specifically the predatory prey cycle. There was a study done by Elise A. Keppel et al.

The change the Artic will have an impact on the earth. Temperatures in the Arctic are rising at twice the rate of the rest of the world on average, and melting glaciers and land-based ice sheets are contributing to rising sea levels. Rising ocean temperatures are affecting ocean ecosystems. In turn having an affect on the communities and economies that depend on them. The changing Arctic could lead to global changes in ocean-based food security that will place additional burdens on economies, societies, and institutions around the world.

The attitude used throughout the book is informing, Kolbert tries to make us see the big impact we are having on our planet. Since the origin of life on earth three billion years ago, our planet has experienced five mass extinction events. The last of these events occurred around sixty-six million years ago when a six mile wide asteroid collided with earth, wiping out the dinosaurs. The Cretaceous extinction event dramatically changed the composition of biodiversity on the planet. Marine ecosystems essentially collapsed, and about seventy-five percent of

The U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change notes that only about 2% of human-caused global warming affects the atmosphere, with much of the rest (over 90%) going into our oceans. And although a change of few degrees may not seem that bad to the casual reader, it is noteworthy that the present baby sea lion crisis is the result of a mere 2–5 degree increase in the temperature of the water around the traditional hunting

As the ocean has “specific heat capacity thousands times that of air” [Science line 2015] this then in turn means that the air above the water is heated not necessarily to the same temperature but it does rise. Furthermore, this then can being to cause a chain reaction effect with global warming. Firstly let’s put this in perspective imagine that everything is heating up meaning that the water is beginning to heat up as well. Now the water begins to increase the temperature in the air above it, after that the heat within the air is transported all around the world dude to the ocean currents. From here, it is easy to see how global warming effects the whole planet at once. [Science line

     Global warming is also affecting the animals that live in our marine environments. These marine mammals are accustomed to living in specific temperatures. They cannot survive in the water if the temperature of the water changes dramatically. Thus, certain animals die as a result of the increase in temperature of the oceans. Also, it is very difficult to receive data from something as large and profound as our oceans. The various techniques that scientists use to receive data are not exactly quiet experiments. The tools used to take ocean data are actually loud machines that are put into the ocean. One might think that these loud machines would have no affect on animals because it is very difficult to hear things under

The main factors in this climate change are observed to be the increase in temperatures and the resulting acidification of the oceans. The previously mentioned changes and others in the report are readily observable, such as the uptake of anthropogenic carbon since 1750 that has led to the ocean becoming more acidic, with an average decrease in pH of 0.1 units and in some instances blatantly obvious, even to the average layperson. It is difficult to conclude what the rate of change in the future will be and the effects of observed ocean acidification on the marine biosphere.