Ocean Conservancy

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

That’s how long Ocean Conservancy has been advancing policies that secure a healthy ocean and a thriving planet. Please try again or contact 1.888.780.6763 Enter Your Email.loading Thanks for signing up for Ocean Conservancy emails. Yet despite its critical role, the ocean is often sidelined in global climate discussions.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 19, 2023

Quickly and sharply tapering down the use of fossil fuels, which are the main driver of human-caused climate change, is just as crucial if we are to have any chance of keeping climate extremes from spiraling further out of control. Uncontrolled fires are also burning in Greece. That can and must change NOW.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 19, 2025

Just by looking at the name, you can see that a GCM is a model that simulates the circulation of Earths different physical systems like the atmosphere and ocean. The Earths atmosphere and oceans create circulations in order to mix temperature differences between regions; GCMs, or climate models, simulate these circulations quite well.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 17, 2025

SSP4: A divided world A highly unequal world where some adopt clean technology while much of the population remains dependent on fossil fuels. SSP5: Taking the highway A scenario driven by economic growth and high fossil fuel use, leading to rapid warming. Lower-emission scenarios (SSP1-2.6)

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Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

A simple statement that masks just how complicated the issues are: mixing politics, economics, livelihoods, fisheries and endangered species in the ocean body that is the Gulf of Maine. GOM communities, not fossil fuel interests, should determine policies that affect GOM people. Sea levels are rising.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 20, 2024

The primary cause of accelerating sea level rise is human activity As people burn fossil fuels and emit heat-trapping gases like carbon dioxide, our atmosphere and our oceans warm up. As the ocean warms, it expands. That adds water to the oceans, which raises their level.

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New Scientist

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

An old idea to use ocean heat to generate clean electricity has long failed to gain traction, but the technology – known as ocean thermal energy conversion (OTEC) – is seeing a resurgence of interest from islands dependent on fossil fuels

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Ocean Conservancy

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

I was joined by Ocean Conservancy colleagues working to advance ocean-climate action. C, we stand to lose ocean and coastal ecosystems we depend on to sea level rise, warming temperatures, ocean acidification and other climate impacts. We focused on the following priorities : The Ocean in the Climate Change Dialogue.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 23, 2024

With fossil-fuel pollution trapping heat and driving up global average temperatures, those warmer months are warmer than ever. Higher ocean and air temperatures manifest in storms, heat, precipitation, drought and wildfires that can be more intense, more frequent, and/or longer lasting. What happened to summer?

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 12, 2025

Climate models are the main tool scientists use to assess how much the Earths temperature will change given an increase in fossil fuel pollutants in the atmosphere. Present-day GCMs consider changes in not just the atmosphere, but also changes in the ocean, the land, and sea-ice (see figure below).

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 20, 2023

3) ExxonMobil predicted the possibility of linking rising temperatures to fossil fuels ExxonMobil researchers accurately predicted when it would become possible to attribute changes in climate to human activity. Such a constraint would clearly place a limit on the amount of fossil fuels ExxonMobil could extract, produce and market.

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Ocean Conservancy

DECEMBER 18, 2024

Critical minerals are key components of clean-energy technologies, which are essential to replacing fossil fuels and stabilizing the climate. This situation raises a red flag for Ocean Conservancy as we strive to protect our ocean forever and for everyone. federal waters. This action would give the U.S.

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 8, 2024

In 2022 alone, estimates of the amount of plastic waste leaked to land and into the ocean in California ranged from 121,324 to 179,656 tonnes—the equivalent of dumping 20 to 30 garbage trucks of plastic waste per day into California’s landscapes and waterways.” “In California, from 1990 to 2022, an astounding 2.7

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Environmental News Bits

JULY 1, 2021

A newly developed tool will allow scientists to better gauge how centuries of fossil fuel emissions could be skewing the data they collect from marine environments. Read the full story from the University of Alaska Fairbanks. Read more →

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Real Climate

AUGUST 25, 2023

Not in summer when the ocean is covered by a shallow surface mixed layer heated by the sun and highly dependent on weather conditions.) The argument has been made that the ‘cold blob’ might not be caused by an AMOC decline but by heat loss at the ocean surface. We argued in Caesar et al. The reanalysis data show the latter is the case.

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Environmental News Bits

AUGUST 11, 2021

This report exposes the untold environmental and public health impacts of retail companies’ reliance on fossil-fueled maritime shipping to bring products into the United States. Download the document. Read more →

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Inside Climate News

JANUARY 18, 2024

Bottom trawling disturbs the ocean floor, researchers found. Critics question whether “trawl disturbance” is different from the carbon flux that naturally occurs in oceans.

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Ocean Conservancy

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

Thanks for signing up for Ocean Conservancy emails. Every year, 11 million metric tons of plastics enter our ocean. Nearly all of these plastics are made from fossil fuels including crude oil, natural gas liquids and coal. This spill is a pervasive threat to ocean life and coastal communities.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 26, 2022

While there is enormous potential for UN climate negotiations to transform climate action, meaningful progress has been delayed in part by the fossil fuel industry’s deceptive tactics. Last year’s COP was notable as the first to explicitly mention “fossil fuels” in the final decision document.

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Ocean Conservancy

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

As deeply troubling reports continue to come in about ocean waters hitting historic hot temperatures, sectors like global shipping are trying to understand the consequences of a warmer ocean and what can be done to stop the heating. So, we’re seeing the ocean heat up, lose oxygen and get bigger. as a national policy leader.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MAY 23, 2023

For example, researchers at the Union of Concerned Scientists have directly linked fossil fuel producers’ Scope 1 and Scope 3 emissions to increases in ocean acidification , global temperature, sea level rise and North American wildfires. So how does the fossil fuel industry think it should measure emissions?

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 6, 2025

Some countries argued that including methods for ocean alkalinity enhancement and direct ocean carbon capture, two experimental marine CDR technologies, could prematurely legitimize these technologies before their environmental impacts are fully understood.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 20, 2022

Another actor with immense political power and influence played a role in this shift: the fossil fuel industry. Fossil fuel companies wanted to make sure that regulation of their products, and as a result the heat-trapping emissions that come from producing and using fossil fuels, were kept out of international agreements.

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Ocean Conservancy

JANUARY 8, 2024

Please try again or contact 1.888.780.6763 Enter Your Email.loading Thanks for signing up for Ocean Conservancy emails. Informal sector waste collectors in Colombia and across the globe help fulfill our mission to protect the ocean from one of today’s greatest global challenges, plastic pollution.

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Real Climate

AUGUST 13, 2021

This is a pretty clear illustration of how sea level starts to rise slowly; but in the long run, sea-level rise caused by fossil-fuel burning and deforestation in our generation could literally go off the chart and inundate many coastal cities and wipe entire island nations off the map. But first things first.

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Legal Planet

MAY 5, 2022

Its location between two oceans, as well as its latitude and topography significantly increase Mexico’s exposure to extreme hydro meteorological events.” AMLO has come under criticism for his commitment to fossil fuel production and refining in Mexico. Like other populist leaders, he has not been friendly to climate action.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 18, 2022

Here in the United States, there are dozens of cases being brought against fossil fuel companies and others claiming recompense for climate damages and prosecuting the companies for actively deceiving their shareholders and the public to block climate action. Climate-related extremes already threaten public health and the environment.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 6, 2025

Some countries argued that including methods for ocean alkalinity enhancement and direct ocean carbon capture, two experimental marine CDR technologies, could prematurely legitimize these technologies before their environmental impacts are fully understood.

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Inside Climate News

JULY 8, 2024

By Bob Berwyn Climate heating caused by fossil fuel pollution supercharged Hurricane Beryl during its unusually early July push from the heart of the tropical Atlantic Ocean to the coast of Texas, scientists said Friday.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

AUGUST 2, 2024

As the Earth’s air and oceans warm, the ice sheet is starting to melt at an ever-faster rate. The Antarctic Ice Sheet has grounded ice, which is ice that sits on the solid Earth below it and ice shelves, which extend out from the grounded portion and float on the ocean surface. These are called marine basins.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 11, 2023

Heightened flood risk The National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) said in a recent outlook that about 44 percent of the United States is at risk of floods this spring, equating to about 146 million people. Fuel transport – Spring floods can hinder the transportation of fuels like coal.

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Circle of Blue

AUGUST 11, 2021

One tipping point scientists have on their radar is the Atlantic Meridional Oceanic Current, a stream of water running northward up the Atlantic whose flow depends on a precise temperature gradient. Warming ocean temperatures could cause this current to slow down or collapse altogether.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 24, 2023

An island nation in the southwestern Pacific Ocean, Vanuatu led an inclusive process to ensure global participation in this request. Nations large and small contributed to the current resolution, including Australia, one of the world’s largest fossil fuel exporters, and the United Kingdom.

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Inside Climate News

AUGUST 20, 2021

By Bob Berwyn Fossil fuels don’t just damage the planet by emitting climate-warming greenhouse gases when they are burned. Extracting coal, oil and gas has a huge impact on the surface of the earth, including strip mines the size of cities and offshore oil spills that pollute country-sized swaths of ocean.

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Ocean Conservancy

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Our team from Ocean Conservancy was right in the mix, meeting with governments and engaging in more than 30 events in just five days. We advocated for solutions to tackle climate change and biodiversity crises, all while promoting a healthy and resilient ocean. degrees Celsius by 2030.

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Frontiers

OCTOBER 17, 2022

Researchers have discovered that an 80 year old historic World War II shipwreck is still influencing the microbiology and geochemistry of the ocean floor where it rests. The post WWII shipwreck has leaked many pollutants into the sea, changing the ocean floor around it first appeared on Science & research news | Frontiers.

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Ocean Conservancy

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

The planet has accumulated as much heat in the past 15 years as it did in the previous 45 years; the ocean has absorbed the majority of this excess heat. Scientists have consistently warned that the continued burning of fossil fuels is heating the planet, including the ocean.

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