Ocean
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And so these are the sorts of extrapolations that we have of what sort of loss we've had relative to pre-human impacts on the
ocean.
So one of the tools that we use to sample the deep
ocean
are remotely operated vehicles.
And so for animals that come to the surface to breathe, such as this elephant seal, it's an opportunity to send data back to shore and tell us where exactly it is in the
ocean.
And so from this we're able to identify these blue highways, these hot spots in the ocean, that should be real priority areas for
ocean
conservation.
Where do we find the most species of
ocean
life?
This is the sort of data, again, that managers could use if they want to prioritize areas of the
ocean
that we need to conserve.
And it shows that the ocean, because of its vastness, can hide secrets for a very long time.
If you were to suck all the water out of the ocean, this is what you'd be left behind with, and that's the biomass of life on the sea floor.
We actually know the fishes better than we do any other group in the
ocean
other than marine mammals.
And what is does is predict how many more species there are on land and in the
ocean.
And what they found is that they think that we know of about nine percent of the species in the
ocean.
And so as we see in this image of light during the night, there are lots of areas of the Earth where human development is much greater and other areas where it's much less, but between them we see large dark areas of relatively unexplored
ocean.
The other point I'd like to make about this is that this
ocean'
s interconnected.
Ocean
acidification is a really big issue that people are concerned with, as well as
ocean
warming, and the effects they're going to have on coral reefs.
And I could spend the rest of my time, which is getting very limited, going through this litany of concerns about the ocean, but I want to end on a more positive note.
Census scientists worked in the rain, they worked in the cold, they worked under water and they worked above water trying to illuminate the wondrous discovery, the still vast unknown, the spectacular adaptations that we see in
ocean
life.
But under that was this global tension of will we ever find Nemo in this huge, vast
ocean?
The biggest reservoir, the ocean, was the least well measured, until more than 3,000 Argo floats were distributed around the world's
ocean.
These floats reveal that the upper half of the
ocean
is gaining heat at a substantial rate.
The deep
ocean
is also gaining heat at a smaller rate, and energy is going into the net melting of ice all around the planet.
These curves for global temperature, atmospheric CO2 and sea level were derived from
ocean
cores and Antarctic ice cores, from
ocean
sediments and snowflakes that piled up year after year over 800,000 years forming a two-mile thick ice sheet.
A warmer
ocean
releases CO2, just as a warm Coca-Cola does.
As Earth warms, now because of extra CO2 we put in the atmosphere, ice will melt, and CO2 and methane will be released by warming
ocean
and melting permafrost.
That's because government is like a vast
ocean
and politics is the six-inch layer on top.
And when you go outside and look up at the Empire State Building, Chrysler Building, the average depth of the
ocean
is 15 of those on top of one another.
But what you probably don't know is in the very deep part of the ocean, we have volcanic eruptions.
And we actually have fire, fire deep inside the ocean, going on right now.
In this place, the
ocean
floor, the rocks actually turn to liquid.
So you actually have waves on the
ocean
floor.
You're in the
ocean
looking at more water.
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