Saving Wildlife from Mass Extinction due to Global Warming

Global Warming of the
Hydrosphere

 

Global warming

of the

Hydrosphere 

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2005-07-05 El Nino & La Nina.
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El Nino.
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Algae bloom - highest red - yellow - green - white - blue - violet lowest.
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September 1989 anomaly.
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2007-02-28 - "La Nina may soon arrive".
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Ocean acidification level 2009.
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"The Global Conveyor Belt".
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"The Great Ocean Conveyor Belt".
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Extra cool-branch south of S. America.
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Plus EL Nino and La Nina.
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La Nina.
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The westward warm Pacific-Indian-Ocean equatorial current.
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The northernmost reaches of the warm North Atlantic Current near Greenland, Iceland, Britain and Norway.
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The North Atlantic Current including the Gulf Stream.
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2007-05 to 2007-08 Pacific Ocean temperature
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Classic view of ocean currents.
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2008-01-14 La Nina.
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La Nina.
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April 1993 - ocean temperature at surface and 160-meter depth.
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Summer 2002 - T/P (Topex-Poseidon) sea level deviation.
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The Gulf Stream.
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The perpetually eastward Antarctic Ocean Current.
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The trans-Atlantic East Equatorial Current.
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La Nina.
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The waxing and waning and El Nino.
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El Nino
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Warming water cycle.
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Warming water cycle.
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Atmosphere CO2 uptake and release.
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"The Biological Pump".
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Ocean heat convection.
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Ocean biological pump - microbial food web.
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"Microbial food web".
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Carbon Cycle and Carbon Budget.
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Ocean temperature Change 1978-2002.
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"The Rising Sea Level"
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Thermohaline Convection Reduction.
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Ocean Carbon Cycle.
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Summer sea surface temperature by ocean basin.
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A "3D Block"
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Sea Level Rise 1880-2000.
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Sea Level Rise - past and 3-scenarios of future - 2000-2100.
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Droughts and floods induced by global warming.
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Red Tide.
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Iron sulfate dumped into the ocean to slow global warming.
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Plankton killed by ocean warming.
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World wave-energy potential
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"Continents" of  floating garbage.
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Global fisheries
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Preindustrial (before ~1880)Surface Ocean Aragonite Saturation State.
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Present Surface Ocean Aragonite Saturation State.  Aragonite is calcium carbonate.  It's saturation State is dependent on the acidity of the ocean.
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Predicted Future (~2065) Surface Ocean Aragonite Saturation State.  The oceans are becoming more acidic.  Calcium carbonate dissolves.  Coral dies.
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Projected sea-level rise 1880-2100
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Known deposits of methane clathrates in Arctic permafrost and continental shelves.
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Projected sea level rise due to Arctic ice-melting.  Note: This does not take into consideration Antarctic ice melting.
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If Antarctica melts completely, and it will given our still escalating use of fossil and bio fuels, it alone will raise the sea level by 30 meters or 165 feet.
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Florida coastline in 2007
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Florida coastline in 2107 after a projected 5 meter sea level rise.  Goodbye Miami
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European low countries - coastline in 2007
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European low countries - coastline in 2107 after a projected 5 meter rise in sea level.
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New York City and Jersey City coastline in 2000
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New York City and Jersey City coastline in 2100 after a projected sea level rise of 3 feet or about 1 meter.  Goodbye Brooklyn and Jersey City
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Coastline changes in 4 regions give (?) meters in sea level rise.
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SE US coastline changes give 1-8 meters sea level rise.
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Coastline changes in Bangladesh and Calcutta given a 7 meter (23 feet) sea level rise.
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Coastline of Vancouver & Lower Mainland given a 7 meter (23 feet) sea level rise.
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Waterline of London given a 1 meter (3.3 feet) sea level rise.
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Male, the capital of the Maldive Islands, is only 6.5 meters above sea level - doomed in a century.
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