Variations in the sogginess of the soil or the saltiness of the oceans will modify this signal.
The planet would then meet an icy, rather than a fiery end, since after a million years or so the oceans would freeze solid.
"National governments that stand in the way of reform, like Spain and France, will find it increasingly hard to act as proxies for a handful of powerful companies, with no concern for the long-term wellbeing of the oceans or the majority of fishermen, " she said.
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Following the recommendations of the Framework for Ocean Observing, the emphasis of the GOOS Steering Committee will be the identification of Essential Ocean Variables, (EOVs), the physical, chemical, biogeochemical or ecological parameters of the oceans which can be measured, observed and used to continuously assess the state of the oceans.
The idea is that the internet is a shared environment, like the oceans or airspace, which requires international co-operation to make the best use of it.
It would be a mistake to think of geo-engineering as a substitute for curbing carbon-dioxide emissions not merely because of the acidification of the oceans, but also because if you ever stop fertilising the oceans or spraying the atmosphere or whatever, the problem will rapidly return.
But, she says, it is still unclear if liquid on the surface of Titan is in the form of puddles, lakes or oceans although the arrival of a spacecraft called Cassini in 2004 might solve the mystery when it drops a probe into Titan's atmosphere.
Earth is bombarded with more than 100 tons of dust and sand-sized particles every day, much of it falling into the oceans or remote areas, and otherwise going unnoticed.
Longer stops give the chance to explore, climb volcanoes, swim in lakes and oceans, or wander the region's cute colonial towns.
Planet Ocean is by no means the first (or last) movie to share the beauty of our oceans and depict some of the ways that our modern world is ruining natural habitats.
Not just to the biosphere (as once thought), or to broad physical changes to the atmosphere, oceans, and climate (as we now know), but to the geology of the planet itself.
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And some of them do strike our planet, though they tend to be small when they do and strike unpopulated areas on land or plunge into the world's oceans.
And some of them do strike the Earth, though they tend to be small when they do and strike unpopulated areas on land or plunge into the world's oceans.
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For much of the oceans we have little or no information on trends.
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In the Antarctic, the new findings confirm the trend of other recent studies - that the West is losing mass to the oceans whereas the ice sheet in the East is either getting thicker or remaining stable.
The International Programme for the State of the Ocean (IPSO) is now telling us the oceans have reached a do or die phase.
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By working with leading scientific institutions, we will collate data and catalogue life forms and unlock the wonders of the oceans still unknown to humankind or science.
"We've lost 17 percent of all plant life in the Atlantic, 26 percent in the North Pacific and in the sub-tropical oceans 50 percent or more of plant life has disappeared, " he said.
The asteroid or comet impact widely implicated in the dinosaurs' demise would also have damaged plankton production in the oceans.
Or recognizing the harm to low-lying countries that rising oceans will inevitably cause to all of us.
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Outlined Monday by Gore economic policy adviser Laura Tyson, the organization would provide nations with a permanent forum similar to the World Trade Organization (WTO) or the International Labor Organization (ILO) to tackle cross-border disputes that affect the health of forests, oceans and endangered species.
Before Argo, the temperature and salinity of the subsurface oceans could only be measured from ships or fixed point moorings.
They may not be cute like seals or colourful like clownfish but they play a crucial role in protecting the oceans.
Forty million years ago, when the earth was warmer because there was more carbon dioxide in the air as a result of volcanic eruptions, the oceans are thought to have been 70 meters (or 229 feet) higher.
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But, while most of the rest of us during this last decade enjoyed life, or complained about it, inside America's borders, they crossed the oceans because their country said that it mattered.
These innovative propulsion and energy systems will help customers explore portions of the world's oceans in conditions that previously were too challenging or costly to operate.
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That started happening in 2006, when Dr Jiao developed a technique called time-series observation-based infra-red epifluorescence microscopy, or TIREM for short, that is able to measure the amount of AAPB in the oceans accurately.
From the oceans, we take without mercy, decimating entire species of fish to extinction or the brink of.
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Deep in oceans around the world lurks a type of worm without a mouth, anus or gut that makes its living by eating the bones of whales and other deceased sea creatures.
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Never put chemicals or oil down the drain -- they will contaminate rivers and then make its toxic way into our oceans.
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