Marine Climate Change Impacts
Climate Change
The term 'climate change' normally refers to the period of change in our weather since the 1900s. While climate varies naturally over many time-scales, it is thought that over the last 200 years, human induced emissions of greenhouse gases have also contributed to global climate change. This interactive web-based encyclopaedia summarises the role of climate change and its impact on the marine environment.
There is already an accumulating body of evidence to suggest that many marine ecosystems are responding both physically and biologically to changes in regional climate. This is caused predominately by the warming of air, the increase in sea surface temperature (SST) and to a lesser extent by the modification of currents, precipitation regimes and wind patterns.
The term 'climate change' normally refers to the period of change in our weather since the 1900s. While climate varies naturally over many time-scales, it is thought that over the last 200 years, human induced emissions of greenhouse gases have also contributed to global climate change. This interactive web-based encyclopaedia summarises the role of climate change and its impact on the marine environment.
There is already an accumulating body of evidence to suggest that many marine ecosystems are responding both physically and biologically to changes in regional climate. This is caused predominately by the warming of air, the increase in sea surface temperature (SST) and to a lesser extent by the modification of currents, precipitation regimes and wind patterns.
