Ocean
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And this is how we've seen the
ocean
since the beginning of time.
There's been a lot of folklore developed around the ocean, mostly negative.
And that prompted people to make maps like this, with all kinds of wonderful detail on the land, but when you get to the waters edge, the
ocean
looks like one giant puddle of blue paint.
But when you got to the ocean, my imagination was no competition for nature.
Every time I'd come up with a crazy cartoon character on the drawing board, I'd find a critter in the
ocean
that was even crazier.
It's not a dinosaur; it's a whale, animals as big as office buildings still swimming around out there in our
ocean.
But instead, we stick a camera in the deep ocean, and we see a fish, and it doesn't capture our imagination as a society.
And they can use that sense to navigate hundreds of miles of open
ocean.
And a lot of it ends up washing into the ocean, which is a great story if you attach a couple characters to it, especially if they can't stand each other, like these two.
And that's what we're doing with the
ocean.
But it shows that we are interconnected, among many systems on the planet, with the three big systems, climate change, stratospheric ozone depletion and
ocean
acidification being the three big systems, where the scientific evidence of large-scale thresholds in the paleo-record of the history of the planet.
We cannot continue consuming water as we do today, with 25 percent of world rivers not even reaching the
ocean.
I was standing outside on a hot summer night in Florida and just a few miles from the
ocean.
And they combine these measurements with complex computer models and make beautiful, global visualizations such as this one, showing the
ocean
currents and the temperature of the ocean, globally.
Or we can look at the salt and smoke and dust in the atmosphere, or the rainfall and snowfall, globally, as well as the annual cycle of vegetation on land and in the
ocean.
They've survived for millennia in desert, in the permafrost, at the tops of mountains and at the bottom of the
ocean.
And he said, "Yes, and they hop across the ocean."
We can't solve the problems unless we start studying the
ocean
in a very much more interdisciplinary way.
So I'm going to demonstrate that through discussion of some of the climate change things that are going on in the
ocean.
We'll look at
ocean
warming.
What frightens you?" for me, it's
ocean
acidification.
And I would say, for the people that work in the
ocean
and think about what the targets should be, we would argue that they must be much lower.
The
ocean
contains most of the exchangeable heat on the planet.
So anything that influences how
ocean
surface waters mix with the deep water changes the
ocean
of the planet.
So that ice sheet is partly floating, and it's exposed to the ocean, to the
ocean
heat.
And we started working on it, and we figured out we could tell the temperature of the ancient
ocean
from analyzing a coral like this.
That the place where, during an earthquake in 1954, this marine terrace was lifted up out of the
ocean
very quickly, and it was lifted up about six to seven meters.
So I'll close with a short discussion of
ocean
acidification.
I like it as a component of global change to talk about, because, even if you are a hard-bitten global warming skeptic, and I talk to that community fairly often, you cannot deny the simple physics of CO2 dissolving in the
ocean.
And as it does so, it makes the
ocean
more acidic.
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