Oceans in sentence

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Primary production in the oceans, the biota of the oceans, mostly microbial, what they're up to is probably the most important thing.

This is one of the things James Lovelock has been insisting; basically, our knowledge of the oceans, especially of ocean life, is fundamentally vapor, in this sense.

CA: Stephen Wolfram, thank you. (Applause) Hi, my name is Roz Savage and I row across oceans.

It's that little green sliver on the horizon, which makes them very nervous about rising oceans.

I found out that people had rowed across oceans.

So what are the oceans going to be like in 20 or 50 years?

A lot of the experience of people here who've been in the oceans for a long time has just been seeing this degradation, the places they saw that were beautiful getting worse, depressing.

But first, I want to start by saying that we need a new operating system, for the oceans and for the Earth.

So the oceans don't always act together; they act differently, but that is the kind of variation that penguins have to live with, and it's not easy.

These are animals that can practically swim from the equator to the poles and can crisscross entire oceans in the course of a year.

And essentially, the story is this with right whales, that about a million years ago, there was one species of right whale on the planet, but as land masses moved around and oceans became isolated, the species sort of separated, and today we have essentially two distinct stocks.

We think it's saltwater, and that would mean that there's more water on that moon of Jupiter than there is in all the oceans of the Earth combined.

But I'd also like to point out that the oceans are much more connected than we think.

Notice how few barriers there are to movement across all of the oceans compared to land.

Unlike fins and blues, which disperse into the temperate and tropical oceans, the humpbacked whales congregate in local traditional breeding grounds, so they can make a sound that's a little higher in frequency, broader-band and more complicated.

Over the last 50 years, as we've put more noise into the oceans, these whales have had to shift.

We end up with things we've heard about before: red tides, for example, which are blooms of toxic algae floating through the oceans causing neurological damage.

Sylvia has said we must use every capacity we have in order to know the oceans.

If we would know the oceans, we must go to the oceans.

And what I'd like to talk to you today about, a little bit, is really transforming the relationship, or the interplay, between humans and oceans with a new capability that is not at all routine yet.

One of them is the oceans are central to the quality of life on earth.

Another is that there are bold, new ways of studying oceans that we have not used well yet.

And the last is that these bold, new ways that we are exploring as a community will transform the way we look at our planet, our oceans, and eventually how we manage probably the entire planet, for what it's worth.

It's the whole planet, the entire planet, continents and oceans together.

Now I don't expect all of you to see all the details here, but what I want you to see is this is about 10 percent of the processes that operate within the oceans almost continuously, and have for the last 4 billion years.

We can't solve all the problems by looking only at the oceans, but if we don't understand the fundamental life support system of this planet much more thoroughly than we do now, then the stresses that we will face, and that Cody will face, and even Nancy, who's going to live till she's 98, will have really problems coping.

All right, let's talk about another perspective on the importance of the oceans.

The oceans control, or at least significantly influence, correlate with, the growth patterns and the drought patterns and the rain patterns on the continents.

So people in Kansas, in a wheat field in Kansas, need to understand that the oceans are central to them as well.

Another complexity: this is the age of the oceans.

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