Global surface temperature (GST) is the average temperature of Earth's surface. Scientists take the temperature of the surface of the sea and the... Learn more about this topic: What is Global Warming? - Definition & Lesson for Kids
Textbooks like to say the Arctic is an ocean surrounded by continents, while the Antarctic is a continent surrounded by an ocean. Here's something you might not realize about the arrangement. All that seawater under the North Pole moderates the climate to some extent. Yet the South Pole doesn...
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The darker red colors indicate an in increase in sea surface temperature. Coral bleaching is caused by increasing ocean temperatures. As water temperatures rise, it causes corals to expel their zooxanthellae, leaving behind a bone-white shell and depriving the coral of its main food source. “...
A rise of just 1 to 2 degrees can force the corals to drive out the algae (水藻). Then the corals turn white in a process called “bleaching”. Corals can recover from short-term bleaching, but long-term bleaching can cause permanent damage. In 1998, when sea surface temperatures were ...
The idea, first floated by the British physicist John Latham in 1990, is that spraying tiny salt particles from seawater toward low-lying clouds above the sea could form additional droplets, increasing the surface area—and thus reflectivity—of the clouds. The team is currently raising fun...
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On the Earth’s surface, the average temperature is about 1.1°C (1.98°F) warmer today than it was before the industrial revolution. This one-digit temperature increase is having profound effects on the planet. Scientists have found strong evidence that the temperature rise is contributing to:...
somewhat darker around its limb or edge. This method of solar viewing is safe so long as you remember not to look through the binoculars or telescope when they are pointed toward the sun; put another way, never look directly at the sun when any part of its blindingly bright surface is ...
Greenland) could melt, dramatically increasing sea levels. With warmer temperatures, there would be the expansion of the water in the ocean, further contributing to a rise in mean sea level. Sea level rise is also known as submergence since land above current mean sea level is drowned or ...