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bchristo » 9am - Jan 21, 2012
Final episode of the upcoming TALK | Climate Change series. It summarizes the previous episodes (yet to be released), and focusses on the ocean — the hydrosphere.
In Part 2, we take a look at coral reefs as a case study, and see what these mean for the climate and the future.
Part 1 of this episode can be found here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7leCVDPB4vM
Glacial melting, such as what we are seeing in many parts of the globe today, also affects the life in the ocean (biosphere in the hydrosphere). For example, we will consider corals as a case study for this. Corals are animals, and not plants. They're essentially a limestone structure filled with thousands of small animals that live off plankton (small microscopic organisms drifting in water). They are very sensitive to temperature changes...
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Category: Climate Change
Tags: ocean, global, warming, climate, system, change, hydrosphere, coral, bleaching, algea, photosynthesis, ecotourism
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