Climate stirring change beneath the waves

BBC ^ | 23 February 2016 | Mark Kinver

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Human-induced climate change is triggering changes beneath the waves that could have a long-term effect on marine food webs, a study suggests.

An assessment of phytoplankton in the North Atlantic found the microscopic organisms' pole-ward shift was faster than previously reported.

It observed that the ocean's tiny plant community was "poised for marked shift and shuffle".

The findings appear in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

"Marine phytoplankton are crucial in marine food webs and global biogeochemical cycles and they are incredibly diverse but we don't really have a sense of what all the different organisms do when you modify climate, or even through natural climate variability," explained co-author Andrew Barton, a researcher at Princeton University, working at the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory.

He told BBC News: "This study attempted to get a handle on how all these different kinds of organisms may respond to anthropogenic climate change over the coming century."

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[moose07]

Mankind will just have to develop ne w sauces to go with them.
Perhaps Al Gore would be interested in developing these..... :)

“Move over Loyd Grossman, here comes the AlGore Cookin Sauce range!”

[GOPJ]

A Gore Veloute...