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Global warning could affect the oceans
Study co-author Henry Ruhl of Britain's National Oceanography Center, said no one is really sure yet whether global climate change is already having major impacts on deep-sea ecosystems. But long-term studies during the last two decades have revealed unexpectedly large changes in deep-ocean ecosystems that are clearly linked to changes in the surface ocean resulting from variation in climate.
The scientists said much of the new understanding has come from two key sites -- one in the northeastern Pacific and the other in the northeastern Atlantic -- from water depths of around 13,400 feet and 16,000 feet.
Deep-sea processes are rarely considered in discussions of global warming, the scientists noted.
"This out-of-sight, out-of-mind mentality in ignoring the vast expanse of the deep ocean needs to be reversed in light of long-term datasets from two major ocean basins showing that the deep sea is strongly impacted by climate variation over a range of time scales."
The study that included Kenneth Smith Jr. of the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute is detailed in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
Copyright 2009 by United Press International
This news arrived on: 11/05/2009
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11-07-2009 08:56
mby wrote:
global warming
Writer harry goble must have his head in the
sand. Humans are very much adding to the air
and land and sea pollution. Though he must be
a young person, as he seems not to have learned
about punctuation in school.
sand. Humans are very much adding to the air
and land and sea pollution. Though he must be
a young person, as he seems not to have learned
about punctuation in school.
11-06-2009 21:31
Jim wrote:
Fear Not.
We are doing what Mother Nature designed us to do. We are now a Force of Nature. Trust God.
11-06-2009 21:30
googolullage@yahoo.com wrote:
Fear Not.
Right now, Human Beings have BECOME a "Natural Phenomenon". WE are changing the world, and altering even the behavior of other species. But we do this, because we are part of God, of Mother Nature. God is Failure-Safe, and Fool-Proof. We are doing what WE ARE SUPPOSED TO BE DOING!! We DO have control, and we have chosen this. For a reason !
Happy to be a human, Jim--Try Pantheism, It WORKS.
Happy to be a human, Jim--Try Pantheism, It WORKS.
11-06-2009 12:16
harry goble wrote:
global warming
Whatever we do its not going to make any difference its a natural phenomonon and we have no control over it its been going on for millions of yrs. and will continue to do so make the best of it we wont change it
regards.......harry.
regards.......harry.
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