Global warming's impacts on marine life and ocean ecosystems

Global Warming

(a) Global Warming (b) Effects on Ocean Life (c) Thesis: What are the impacts on marine life and on oceans as the global climate heats up (d) Key phrases: Climate change; marine life; effects on oceans

Journal Article: (a) Global Warming: Effects on Ocean Life

Daily ocean monitoring since the 1860s shows record warming of northern European seas

Publication: Global Change Biology

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Newspaper Article (a) Global Warming: Effects on Ocean Life

suggests no emissions limits to protect polar bears

Title of Newspaper: Los Angeles Times

Edition: Late Edition

Website One URL http://geography.about.com/

Authority: About.com is a subsidiary of the New York Times

Accuracy: (a) as air temperatures rise, salt water becomes less dense and the water in the upper ocean separates from the colder layer deeper in the ocean and there is a resulting chain reaction; animals that once fed on the surface find fewer nutrients; (b) coral become bleached and are weakened by increased acidity; (c) as coral reefs die, "we will lose an entire ecological habitat of fish" (Lindell, 2008).

Purpose: This is a Website specializing in details for a multitude of specific topics

Website Two: http://cals.cornell.edu.

Authority: Cornell College of Agriculture & Life

Accuracy: (a) Cornell college's professor Charles Greene has researched the effects that climate change has had on the North Atlantic right whale; there are only 300 of these whales left in the world; (b) Greene surveyed about 1,000 square miles in the Gulf of Maine and while studying the plight of the North Atlantic right whale he has witnessed "a massive…die-off of the species (of coral) gorgonian coral Briareum asbestinum; (c) he also witnessed the demise of the crustacean, Calanus finmarchicus, the dietary "mainstay" of right whales (Winter, 2010).

Website Three: http://www.sciencedaily.com.

Authority: Respected science-based online magazine