Artefacts in ocean data hide rising temperatures

Do rising temperatures matter?

Relationships between the environment and population dynamics in ecology have a long history of polarized debates usually involving two alternative and opposite explanations that exclude each other. One of the best known examples is found in the early question of what regulates populations and the role of extrinsic vs. intrinsic factors, opposing the importance of the environment (or density-in...

Hurricanes and rising global temperatures.

T heoretical and modeling assessments consistently point toward an increase in hurricane intensity with global warming (1–3). For the North Atlantic, the annual number of the most intense hurricanes has been predicted to increase by more than 50% for each 1-°C increase in surface temperatures (2, 4). However, there is no consensus on whether current hurricanes have responded to the substantial ...

Does Europa's ice hide an ocean?

Ocean acidification and rising temperatures may increase biofilm primary productivity but decrease grazer consumption.

Climate change may cause ecosystems to become trophically restructured as a result of primary producers and consumers responding differently to increasing CO2 and temperature. This study used an integrative approach using a controlled microcosm experiment to investigate the combined effects of CO2 and temperature on key components of the intertidal system in the UK, biofilms and their consumers...

Rising temperatures and dwindling water supplies

In this paper we discuss the results of a survey on the perception of climate change in the 14 “tourist zones” (as defined by the Spanish Statistical Institute, INE) that stretch from the French border to Gibraltar alongside the Spanish Mediterranean coast, including the Balearic Islands. Our sample consisted of 1014 telephone interviews stratified according to the number of tourists staying in...