Climate Change Impacts on Oceans and Coasts
“40% Climate Scientist, 40% Mom, and 20% Indiana Jones.” Dr. Cobb, who studies corals and other climate indicators, shows how climate change is affecting our oceans and coasts. This module consists of three videos. After you’ve watched the first, and looked at the explorations below it, scroll down to click on the next video.
Led by Kim Cobb, PhD
By the end of this Module, you will:
Learn how the oceans have played a major role in shaping global climate change trends, absorbing 30% of our historic CO2 emissions and 90% of human caused heating
Understand how global warming has already had major consequences on marine ecosystems
Understand that CO2 absorption has led to ocean acidification that will accelerate dramatically without aggressive mitigation
Learn how sea level has already risen one foot (half from warming ocean, half from land ice melt)
Learn that sea level is projected to rise between four & ten feet by 2100, largely depending on ice sheet melt
Understand how our emissions choices will have a profound & lasting impact on the ocean, & thus on coastal communities, for centuries to come
