Climate ChangeClimate Change

The Changing SeaThe Changing Sea

ClimateClimate

The long-term average of weather conditions over a The long-term average of weather conditions over a large area and over many years. large area and over many years.

WeatherWeather

The daily and The daily and seasonal seasonal atmospheric atmospheric conditions we conditions we experience in experience in various locations.various locations.

Climate ChangeClimate Change

Any change in global Any change in global temperature, temperature, precipitation or other precipitation or other weather patterns over weather patterns over the long term due to the long term due to natural variability and natural variability and human activity, human activity, primarily the rapid primarily the rapid increase in increase in greenhouse gas greenhouse gas emissions in the emissions in the atmosphere.atmosphere.

Global Warming Global Warming

A sustained increase in the Earth’s A sustained increase in the Earth’s atmospheric and oceanic temperatures atmospheric and oceanic temperatures caused by greenhouse gasses trapping caused by greenhouse gasses trapping heat near the Earth’s surface. heat near the Earth’s surface.

The Greenhouse EffectThe Greenhouse Effect

Major Greenhouse Major Greenhouse GasesGases COCO22 (carbon dioxide) (carbon dioxide) NO (nitrous oxide) NO (nitrous oxide) CHCH44 (methane) (methane)

HH22O (water vapor)O (water vapor) HFC (hydrofluorocarbon)HFC (hydrofluorocarbon) PFC (perfluorocarbon)PFC (perfluorocarbon) SFSF6 6 (sulfur hexafluoride)(sulfur hexafluoride)

OO33 (ozone) (ozone)

Carbon DioxideCarbon Dioxide

Keeling CurveKeeling Curve

Carbon CycleCarbon Cycle

Rising Sea LevelsRising Sea Levels

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Wading BirdsWading Birds

Mangroves around the Mangroves around the WorldWorld

Hope ElectrifiedHope Electrified

Right now, the Right now, the United States has United States has technologies that technologies that together could together could replace fossil fuel-replace fossil fuel-based energy based energy production and production and reduce carbon reduce carbon pollution.pollution.

Iceless ArcticIceless Arctic

In the once ice In the once ice covered Arctic, covered Arctic, the world is the world is changing fast for changing fast for everyone who everyone who lives there—lives there—animals and animals and people are losing people are losing their homes right their homes right now.now.

Arctic Ice LossArctic Ice Loss

Acid OceanAcid Ocean

The chemistry of The chemistry of the ocean is the ocean is changing at a changing at a troubling rate as troubling rate as it absorbs carbon it absorbs carbon pollution, making pollution, making it difficult for it difficult for many kinds of many kinds of ocean ocean inhabitants to inhabitants to survivesurvive

Ocean AcidificationOcean Acidification

Faith and ActionFaith and Action

People and People and communities are communities are responding to responding to climate change for climate change for many reasons: their many reasons: their sense of what’s sense of what’s right, their concern right, their concern for future for future generations, their generations, their spiritual beliefs, spiritual beliefs, their desire for their desire for justice for the poor justice for the poor and their connection and their connection to all life on Earth.to all life on Earth.

Simmering SeasSimmering Seas

Warming temperatures Warming temperatures

affect ocean animals in affect ocean animals in

different waysdifferent ways

Spotted JelliesSpotted JelliesGreen Sea TurtlesGreen Sea Turtles

Vanishing FeastVanishing Feast

Climate change is Climate change is making ocean making ocean productivity more productivity more variable making it variable making it more difficult for more difficult for Magellanic Magellanic penguins and penguins and other seabirds to other seabirds to find food.find food.

Magellanic PenguinsMagellanic Penguins

World of ChangeWorld of Change

Countries and Countries and cities around the cities around the world have world have already set already set carbon pollution carbon pollution reduction goals reduction goals and are making and are making creative changes creative changes to reduce carbon to reduce carbon pollution.pollution.

Small Groups, Small Groups, Big DifferencesBig Differences

These people share These people share hope for a better hope for a better future and are future and are making changes making changes together in their together in their communities, communities, businesses and businesses and schools to lower schools to lower their carbon their carbon pollution and build a pollution and build a stronger community.stronger community.

Making Change Not Making Change Not CarbonCarbon

We can solve the climate crisis by making little We can solve the climate crisis by making little changes on our own and big changes together.changes on our own and big changes together.

Why the Aquarium is Why the Aquarium is talking about Climate talking about Climate ChangeChange

Critical Threats to the Critical Threats to the OceansOceans

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