The+oceans+and+climate+change

 Scott Hanka Katrina Storrs

The oceans are trapping most of the heat from global warming. 80-90% of the heat from global warming goes to the oceans. The oceans are becoming the place where all the heat is being trappped so they are where all the heat is. The oceans can hold as much as 1000 times more than the atmosphere can of heat. []

By having global warming happening the oceans temperature has raised 1-2 degrees which is not good for the coral inside of the ocean and the world around. The carbon dioxide levels going into the air has increased greatly in the recent years. http://climate-jigsaw.wikispaces.com/Corals+and+Climate+Change

The climate change in the oceans has been going on forever. It goes very slow changing a little bit every year. It is unknown about how global warming was many years ago and the things to do with it because the records only go back 150 years.There were no thermometers or anything that could track the temperature before that. that time period is not a long enough time period to tell if any changes went on and to track the history of the oceans and the climate change. []

The warmer water from the southern atlantic is pushing its way north to warm the northern atlantic, which creates the north atlantic deep water which is a huge volume of cold salty water. This eventually flows back to the south and spreads into the indian and pacific oceans. link to picture: []

Scientists use computer models which represent the ocean currents. It can predict the warmer water moving north and warmer around the continents. When they warm or cool down the water on the example it show substanital impacts on the climate.