Climate Change

Seas and oceans play an important role in regulating the climate: by absorbing large quantities of man-made greenhouse gas emissions from the atmosphere and the resulting heat energy, they have so far significantly slowed down global warming. However, the ocean’s “climate service” comes at a high price: The oceans, which are already endangered by overexploitation and pollution, are reaching their limits due to climate change: Their water is becoming warmer and more acidic, sea levels are rising and extreme weather events are increasing – to the detriment of life in the water and on land. At the same time, the sea is supposed to help solve the climate crisis by injecting sequestered carbon dioxide into deep layers of rock or artificially increasing the sea’s natural carbon dioxide uptake.

A stable climate, healthy oceans and intact ecosystems are of existential importance for the future of humankind. Stabilizing and preserving them is a major task for society as a whole. The knowledge for effective measures for the protection and sustainable use of the seas and oceans and their resources is available. If we adapt our way of doing business and living to the self-preserving rationale of our planet’s nature, everyone will benefit: humans, animals and plants.

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Concentrated knowledge from marine research on the topic of “climate change” is available in the DAM information portal Meere Online:

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