I read the article “World Ocean Systems Undermined by Climate Changes in 2100.” This article explains the new study that describes a full chain of events of changes that could affect humans and ocean systems in the year 2100. Earlier discoveries on ocean systems focused mainly on the amount of acid and the warming of the oceans, but the ocean biogeochemical changes triggered by the manmade greenhouse gases are being ignored. The biogeochemical cycle is the flow of chemical elements and simple substances between living organisms and the physical environment. This cycle is being hindered by manmade greenhouse gases, which are ultimately hurting the environment. Scientists say that almost all of the world’s ocean surface will be impacted greatly due to the intensities of ocean warming, acidification, and reductions in oxygen and productivity.
The greenhouse gases that are hindering the biogeochemical cycle is potentially hurting our environment now and in the future. Author Camilo Mora says, “The consequences of these co-occurring changes are massive-everything from species survival, to abundance, to range size, to body sixe, to species richness, to ecosystem functioning are affected by changes in the ocean biogeochemistry.” To continue, human ramifications are likely to be very massive-food chains, fishing, and even tourism of countries could be impacted largely. Millions of the world’s poorest people rely on the ocean for food, jobs, and revenues, which could all disintegrate very rapidly.
I liked reading about this article. When I was flipping through the choices of articles, this one caught my attention instantly. As I was reading it I became a little confused with context, but as I read on, it made more sense. I believe this article is important because it gives us insight to how our own works could potentially harm our world and oceans causing problems with food, jobs, and resources later on in the years. I realized that whether this takes place in modern times or in 100 years from now, we are contributing to whatever may happen and therefore; we need to fix it as well
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http://www.hawaii.edu/news/article.php?aId=6053
I read the review of the article “World Ocean Systems Undermined by Climate Change in 2100” posted by Mr. Ippolito on behalf of a student. There were three aspects of this review that were particularly well presented. First, I liked how the article mentioned that the media and science have mostly focused on other factors affecting the oceans, such as the warm temperatures and the presence of acids, but they have neglected to discuss the presence of green house gases. I liked how this student included this because it gave the reader the bigger picture of where this article was coming from. In addition, I liked how the author described what the biogeochemical cycle was, because it turns out to be very important to the point of the article. I liked this because the student was able to provide us with information to help us understand the topic a little bit more. Lastly, I liked how he quoted an author, because it gives the reader a real scientific perspective on the whole situation, one that we might not have had without this quote.
ReplyDeleteThere were also two things that could have been improved about this review. There were many grammar mistakes in the review that prevented me from being able to read the review fully and fluidly, and it made me pause, which paused my train of thought, overall hindering my experience reading this article. Secondly, there was very little mention of what was actually going to happen in 2100 by the reviewer. I would have liked to hear more about this and understand the student’s take on the issue.
One thing that surprised me from this review was that tourism in some countries could be impacted largely from this oceanic change. That is also something I would like to hear more about because it is a very strange, but interesting issue.