From NASA Global Climate Change Researchers used the space-based CALIPSO lidar to measure the planet’s largest animal migration, which takes place when small sea creatures swim up from the depths…
Category: Oceans
Animals could help humans monitor oceans
oceans University of Exeter Sharks, penguins, turtles and other seagoing species could help humans monitor the oceans by transmitting oceanographic information from electronic tags. Thousands of marine animals are tagged…
Water Behaving Badly
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach Those who know me are aware that I’m a tropical boy, a hopeless addict of warm blue seas and coconut-laden islands with white sand beaches.…
Is a great iron fertilization experiment already underway?
News Release 26-Jun-2019 Is a great iron fertilization experiment already underway? University of South Florida (USF Innovation) ST. PETERSBURG, FL – It’s no secret that massive dust storms in the…
How deep-ocean vents fuel massive phytoplankton blooms
More “settled science” of the carbon cycle~ctm Stanford study shows how hydrothermal vents fuel massive phytoplankton blooms — and possible hotspots for carbon storage Stanford’s School of Earth, Energy &…
Mapping the global distribution of phytoplankton
ETH Zurich IMAGE: Phytoplankton boasts an amazing variety of forms and species. Credit: Meike Vogt und Jorge Martinez-Rey / ETH Zurich With some 10,000 to 20,000 different species in the…
Continuous observations in the North Atlantic challenges current view about ocean circulation variability
Kevin Kilty May 10, 2019 From Physics Today (April 2019 Issue, p. 19)1: The overturning of water in the North Atlantic depends on meridional overturning circulation (MOC) wherein warm surface…
Study: Much of the surface ocean will shift in color by end of 21st century
Climate-driven changes in phytoplankton communities will intensify the blue and green regions of the world’s oceans From the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Climate change is causing significant changes to phytoplankton…
Study finds billion-year superocean cycles in Earth’s history
Curtin researchers believe that ancient supercontinents formed and then fell apart through alternating cycles spanning hundreds of millions of years that involved superoceans being swallowed and the restructuring of the…
UN warns of rising levels of toxic brine as desalination plants meet growing water needs
UN warns of rising levels of toxic brine as desalination plants meet growing water needs World’s ~16,000 desalination plants discharge 142 million cubic meters of brine daily — 50 percent…
Upper-ocean warming is changing the global wave climate, making waves stronger
From EurekAlert! Public Release: 14-Jan-2019 Upper-ocean warming is changing the global wave climate, making waves stronger The energy in ocean waves has been increasing as a consequence of climate change,…
Ocean Cleanup device breaks down, well before ridding Pacific of plastics
From NBCNEWS Dutch inventor Boyan Slat said he still believed his $360 million plan could work. The Ocean Cleanup device floating in a lagoon in Alameda, California, in August 2018.The…
The second largest whale in the world slows the build-up of CO2 in the sea
From EurekAlert! Public Release: 19-Dec-2018 The second largest whale in the world slows the build-up of CO2 in the sea The rise in the population of these animals off the…
Earth’s polar regions communicate via oceanic ‘postcards,’ atmospheric ‘text messages’
From Eurekalert Oregon State University CORVALLIS, Ore. – Scientists have documented a two-part climatic connection between the North Atlantic Ocean and Antarctica, a fast atmospheric channel and a much slower…
Antarctic melting slows atmospheric warming and speeds sea level rise
From Eurekalert Public Release: 19-Nov-2018 The research is the first to show how the melting of the Antarctic ice sheet will affect future climate University of Arizona As the Antarctic…
What is warming the Earth?
Guest Post By Javier A no-assumptions look at the global warming evidence helps clarify the possibilities. The planet’s surface has been warming since the depths of the Little Ice Age,…
Graph of the week – The strawman argument
As many WUWT readers know, there’s this push to “save the planet” by banning plastic straws. Like most liberal Earth saving fantasies, it’s rooted in shonky science, or in this…
Contrary to the NY Times — The DR Has Lots of Clean Beautiful Beaches
Guest Essay by Kip Hansen Palko Karasz, writing in the New York Times, with a degree of insensitivity bordering on blatant intentional libel, reports: “Come for the beaches, say tourism…
SHOCKER: RECYCLING PLASTIC IS MAKING OCEAN LITTER WORSE
From the GWPF and the “Great Pacific Recycling Patch” department. Save The Oceans – Stop Recycling Plastic – video follows London 28 June: An explosive report from the Global Warming…
Inconvenient: Plateau In Global Ocean Temperatures Persists
Ron Clutz writes at Science Matters: Years ago, Dr. Roger Pielke Sr. explained why sea surface temperatures (SST) were the best indicator of heat content gained or lost from earth’s…
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