Climate Change and the Ocean
The negative impact of human activity on the planet is most directly perceptible when climate change is triggered by the greenhouse effect. Behind this phenomenon is the burning of large quantities of non-renewable fossil fuels such as coal, oil and natural gas, which releases gases that rival nature’s elemental cycles of carbon, nitrogen and sulphur, further unbalancing the steady state of CO2 and other greenhouse gases in the atmosphere and causing changes in master variables, namely temperature, pH and pε values in the oceans. In addition to this, the human production of nitrogen and phosphorus fertilisers has created widespread coastal hypoxia and low dissolved oxygen conditions. These problems ultimately pose a serious threat to the health of marine ecosystems.
Prof. Jerald L. Schnoor from the University of Iowa was the first invited speaker in the SKLMP Distinguished Lecture Series, and he presented his insights on the topic of "Climate Change and the Ocean" in the first Distinguished Lecture. In April this year, Prof. Schnoor and his team published a more detailed review paper on this topic in the journal ACS Environmental, entitled "Climate Change and the Ocean: Major Disruptions in Stability and Main Variables". The review calls for environmental scientists to take a leading role in the field of climate change, and for governments and international organisations to promote more regulations for the protection of the land and marine environment so as to halt the current loss of global biodiversity and create a more sustainable future for the planet.
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