The progressive global warming process in many ways adversely affects the ecosystems of the seas and oceans. In addition, the growing scale of pollution, waste, including plastic waste and many other toxic, non-biodegradable, contributes to adverse changes in many areas, sea zones and assessments, as well as biological depletion of biodiversity of ecosystems. The scale of this depletion is already beginning to be noticeable also for people in some areas of the sea, in which the number of fished fish is decreasing.
In addition, the rising temperature of the seas and oceans, which will be a derivative of the global warmning process, causes changes in ocean currents, which causes the appearance of new weather anomalies and climatic disasters also in land areas inhabited by people. Until recently, it was thought that seas and assessments, due to their high volume potential for land surfaces, would act as a kind of buffer factor for the global warming process. However, it turns out that the seas and oceans are unlikely to play the role of a buffer factor, they will only quickly undergo the global warmnig process and in this way may also become another factor strengthening the scale of increasingly occurring weather anomalies and climatic cataclysms.
Do you agree with me on the above matter?
In the context of the above issues, I am asking you the following question:
Are the seas assessed as a global warming process buffer or are they subject to this process?
Please reply
I invite you to the discussion
Distinct global warming rates tied to multiple ocean surface temperature changes...The globally averaged surface temperature has shown distinct multi-decadal fluctuations since 1900 ... Yao, S. L., Luo, J. J., Huang, G., & Wang, P. (2017). Distinct global warming rates tied to multiple ocean surface temperature changes. Nature Climate Change, 7(7), 486-491.
1. rise in atmospheric CO2 concentration = pH sea change
2. increases in soil or sediment temperatures
3. increases in evapotranspiration = EC sea change
4. possible decrease/increase in rainfall
5. deeper and longer inundation in river
6.all that factor may be cause changes in ecological and socio-economic implications
It is known that about 80% of fresh O2 is supplied by ocean and absorbs large amount of CO2 that causes global warming, through the mechanism of buffering both in ocean water as well as in soil/sediments. This buffering activity in both soil and sediments very strong. Besides, ocean is playing a removal mechanism of excess CO2 by carbon sequestration in the ocean bed. So long, this removal efficiency is not disrupted, no harm full effect on the globe may be experienced.
I am totaly agree with you about this subjet...I would say that the seas are they subject to this process
The ocean surface is also warming but more slowly than the surface of the continents. See:
https://www.ospo.noaa.gov/data/sst/anomaly/2019/anomnight.1.7.2019.gif
And it will take a long time before the deep ocean reaches a stable temperature.
However, even that small warming means that specific humidity is increasing with the result that precipitation is also increasing - more floods.
The oceans will not stop global warming only cause it to increase more slowly.
With all due respect, but this does not seem a fair dichotomy to me. I would say the answer to your question is: yes and yes. Of course, the Global Ocean is subject to the process of a global atmospheric process (anthropogenic climate change) caused by the rate and duration of the higher flux of carbon from stocks (fossil fuel reserves) to the atmosphere, than vice versa. This imbalance (more source than sink) of the global Carbon budget (by burning more fossil fuel than the system can store away on the same time scale) has two primary effects on the global ocean surface (top ca. 100 m layer), via the air-ocean equilibrium: 1) increase of the dissolved CO2 pool of the ocean, causing (through a series of chemical reactions) a strong increase in free protons (H+), which essentially translates into more acidic water, and 2) the heat trapped in the atmosphere will be taken up by the ocean's surface waters and, through oceanic currents that move from the surface to the deep ocean in a kind of conveyor belt system, eventually be transported to deeper ocean layers (2 - 6 km deep on average). Thus, over time, the atmospheric conditions (higher CO2, warmer system) will be exported down into the deep ocean. Because the deep ocean is orders of magnitude more voluminous than the global surface ocean, and because of the higher thermal capacity of water, the global ocean essentially buffers the effects of any atmospheric processes, be they man-made or not.
We cannot fix buffer for global warming seas assessment will give the impact rate and tendency oc climate change
The seas are getting warmer for sure as the amount of evaporation has increased. Since last fall I have described "humidity clouds" blocking the sun in an otherwise cloud-free skies. I am sure you have the same phenomenon there.
In my area I have counted 80 % of days showed this phenomenon which I have never seen before.
Therefore, I would say the seas are getting warmer.
Ninety percent of the earth's heat content is in the oceans. When NOAA used the more accurate temperature data from thousands of new ocean buoys, the so-called``hiatus,''or slowing of global warming since 1998, has disappeared ... Carr, P. H. (2016). Oceans: No Global Warming Hiatus. Bulletin of the American Physical Society, 61.
The ocean takes up about 93% of the global warming heat entering Earth's climate system. In addition, the associated thermal expansion contributes substantially to sea-level rise. ... Johnson, G. C., & Lyman, J. M. (2020). Warming trends increasingly dominate global ocean. Nature Climate Change, 1-5.
Distinct global warming rates tied to multiple ocean surface temperature changes...The globally averaged surface temperature has shown distinct multi-decadal fluctuations since 1900 ... Yao, S. L., Luo, J. J., Huang, G., & Wang, P. (2017). Distinct global warming rates tied to multiple ocean surface temperature changes. Nature Climate Change, 7(7), 486-491.
Dear D A Gayan Nayanajith, Thank you for participating in the discussion. Thank you very much for answering the question: Are the seas assessed as a global warming process buffer or are they subject to this process?
Thank you for the information provided and the link to interesting data in the above-mentioned issues. Your perspective on this issue is interesting and very accurate.
Best wishes, Have a nice day,
Dariusz Prokopowicz
Bodies of water absorb and store the heat in the air (unless they are covered with ice) readily. Nothing can stop the heat from being absorbed by the water.
When sea water is heated, it evaporates into the air at the same time carrying a lot of ENERGY. This is the power of the weather, the storm and the hurricane. The more the sea evaporates the more energy it has.
This year's storms and hurricanes are much stronger than last year's. Next year's storms will be even stronger and so on. Humans have done little to reduce global warming, even some leaders still think science is FAKE!! How can normal people help when their leaders are so ignorant?
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