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Whales and Climate Change: How Are They Linked?

Posted on Mar 08, 2010 by Zachary Shahan.

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Two issues close to the hearts of many environmentalists (or even the average person now) — addressing climate change and protecting endangered whales — are now being seen as linked issues.

Whales are huge! Blue whales are the largest creatures on Earth. An elephant, the largest animal that lives on land, could stand on a blue whale’s tongue. Its heart is the size of a small car. A sperm whale has a brain the size of a car and you could swim in its veins.
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The Rising Sea: 7 Foot Ocean Rise by 2100

Posted on Jan 21, 2010 by Scott James.

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Sea levels are rising, though there is little agreement on how much has happened and how much will come over the next century, there is general consensus that we will need to learn how to adapt to a changing coastline. In their book The Rising Sea, scientists and authors Orrin Pilkey and Rob Young claim that “governments and coastal managers should assume the inevitability of a seven-foot rise in sea level.” According to their reassessment of the 2007 IPCC report in light of the past two years, rising sea levels are not a thing of the future, but something that is very real and is happening right now.
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Summer of 2009 the Warmest on Record for Oceans

Posted on Sep 23, 2009 by Scott James.

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Early in 2009 NASA predicted that 2009 and 2010 could be years of record global temperatures, and it seems they may be right. The Earth’s oceans have just finished their warmest summer on record, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. How long is “on record?” – since 1880.
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Global Ocean Temperatures for July 2009 Break Records

Posted on Aug 18, 2009 by Jennifer Lance.

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According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), July 2009 was the hottest month on record for the average global ocean surface temperature. The previous record was broken in 1998.Â When combined with global land surface temperatures, July 2009 was the fifth warmest month since data collection began in 1880.
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Mumbai – An Estuary in Need of Recovery

Posted on Aug 11, 2009 by Reenita Malhotra.

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Global warming continues to make the flood situation in coastal cities particularly precarious. As sea levels rise, the need for urban adaptation is becoming more and more urgent. This is especially apparent in cities like Mumbai which gets flooded during its monsoon season, each year.
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