How does global warming affect the ocean???

Question

How does global warming affect the ocean???

Answer 1

It melts the ice...

Sadly, the polar bears survive by crawling onto the ice, so without the ice, the polar bears will die.

In turn, almost everything in the artic will die off, because the artic is a very fragile ecosystem.

It also causes the water to slightly rise, and more tropical storms.  They will be more dangerous because of the temperature changes.

Eventually... terrible things will happen if nothing is done to at least TRY to prevent global warming.

Answer 2

It doesn't - It would take something of immense power of which we've never seen in our lifetime to have the slightest effect on the Ocean...

On a side note, did you know the Ocean is the largest producer of Co2 emissions in the world...if we took away the ocean we would more or less wipe out global warming......funny auld world isn't it!

Answer 3

You have that backward.  Oceans drive the earth's climate/weather.

Did your teacher tell you about the El Nino & La Nina cycles?

Maybe you could review this web site:

It's not Global Warming, it's Ocean Warming:

http://www.iceagenow.com/Ocean_Warming.h...

Answer 4

Well, the most obvious effect is that it makes the water warmer.  That , in turn , is having a number of further effects.  Scientists are still learning about this--but heres some of what we are certain of:

>when the water is warmer, it accellerates the melting of polar ice in the Artic and Antartic, both by exposing shorline ice to warmer water and by making local climate warmer.

>We THINK that the added heat enrgy is causing more intense hurricanes/cyclones. That is almost certain--but it has not been fully confirmed yet.

>The most serious effect we know of is that in many areas of the tropics/subtropics, the warmer temperatures are starting to kill off coral reefs. Wehn that happens, the plants and fish tha tlive on ad in the reefs die--and then the larger fish (the kind people catch and eat) also die--there's nothing for them t o eat.

Thee are models and hypotheses that indicate there may be other, and still more serious, effects on the oceans in the future.  Those are not confirmed as yet--though its a pretty good bet that some will prove to be the cae.  In the broad sense, these mostly boil down to the fact that the oceans play a BIG part in how climate and weatehr systems operate--and a change in the oceans will thus lead to changes in climate and in our weather.

Answer 5

Ocean currents are driven by differences in density

due to temperature and salinity and winds.

The major curents provide nutrients to food fish stocks and

algae which furnish a large portion of our oxygen.

Global warming changes:

* The rate of ice melting.

* Precipitation patterns.

* Evaporation rates.

* Weather patterns.

These changes already have changed the frequency of

the 'El Nino` events in the Pacific.

Answer 6

Water expands as it is heated, so it will rise from that. The ice caps are melting , so it will rise again from that. As temperatures rise, there will be increased atmospheric vapour, which holds more particles in the air, which in turn increases solar heat absorbtion. What concerns me the most is that water absorbs co2 up to a point, this means that it has been absorbing co2 ever since the industrial revolution. Recently scientists are stating that ocean co2 absorbtion is begining to slow down, this means that atmospheric co2 will rise at a faster rate. Al-gore is one of the good guys. we need as many good guys in the public eye as possible, or do we keep our head in the sands. maybe ignorance is bliss who knows

Answer 7

When the glaciers melt and more water is in the oceans

water heats up and bleches out  the corals