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So the first thing to know is that the forests of the
sea
are microbial.
Now, I've spent about 500 days of my scientific life at sea, and a lot more in front of a computer or in the lab, so I feel compelled to tell you some of their stories.
So, to get around these challenges, we combined satellite remote sensing with drones and gliders, regular sampling of the surf zone and a lot of time at
sea
in small boats off the Oregon coast.
It turns out that the land we were losing was our buffer from the
sea.
The graphic showed massive land loss in south Louisiana and an encroaching sea, but more specifically, the graphic showed the disappearance of my community and many other communities before the end of the century.
We thought we were just bound by temporary disaster recovery, but we found that we were now bound by the impossible task of ensuring that our communities would not be erased by
sea
level rise due to climate change.
Climate gentrification that happens in anticipation of
sea
level rise is what we're seeing in places like Miami, where communities that were kept from the waterfront are now being priced out of the high ground where they were placed originally as people move away from the coast.
And you know how coral are very sensitive to temperature, and are very important for the biodiversity of the
sea.
According to FAO, if we don't change our system of fishing the main
sea
resources will be gone in 2050.
The Mediterranean cultures at the heart of the Roman Empire had large warships that controlled the sea, and cargo ships that transported goods along the waterways.
There were smaller versions for fishing and local excursions, and larger adaptations for open
sea
voyages capable of carrying tens of tons of cargo.
Our tadpole-like ancestors flitted along ancient coastlines, while their eel-like relatives with gnashing throat teeth swam above the ice-cream cone corals of the first reefs, dodging school-bus-sized krakens and hungry
sea
scorpions.
Somewhere around China, a fish developed jaws, and its descendants drove jawless fishes,
sea
scorpions and branching plankton to extinction.
It was the age of weird fishes and plated
sea
lilies.
In the ocean, marine reptiles, giant rafts made of the living relatives of
sea
urchins and armored squids, ammonoids, of every kind and form.
But then, Pangaea started to split apart, forming a
sea
of lava that would one day become the Atlantic Ocean, spewing toxic gas into the atmosphere and mass extinction number four.
There were ecological revolutions on land and at sea, leading to the modern world.
Yes, it's uphill the entire way, because the South Pole is at 10,000 feet, and you're starting at
sea
level.
And maybe it's something that people in Oxford don't do very often, but if you ever make it to the sea, and you swallow a mouthful of seawater, keep in mind that each milliliter has about a million bacteria and on the order of 10 million viruses.
You can't say all aquatic animals are naked, because look at the
sea
otter.
And up will come mangroves, and
sea
turtles and your own kidneys.
In these images we see ice from enormous glaciers, ice sheets that are hundreds of thousands of years old breaking up into chunks, and chunk by chunk by chunk, iceberg by iceberg, turning into global
sea
level rise.
You see the glacier flowing in from the right, dropping off into the sea, camera shooting every hour.
The calving face is the wall where the visible ice breaks off, but in fact, it goes down below
sea
level another couple thousand feet.
Particularly in the world of
sea
ice, the rate of natural change is outstripping predictions of just a few years ago, and the processes either are accelerating or the predictions were too low to begin with.
Icebergs, many, many, many, many times the size of this building, are roaring out to
sea.
And I have also, every year, seen less and less
sea
ice.
In the two years before my swim, 23 percent of the arctic
sea
ice cover just melted away.
Some people think that swimming is a very solo sport, you just dive into the
sea
and off you go.
We all got down onto the ice, and I then got into my swimming costume and I dived into the
sea.
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