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Effects of global warming on oceans (Rising sea levels (Glaciers and polar…
Effects of global warming on oceans 
Rising sea temperature
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Many species forced to migrate so they maintain temperature because global warming has caused the water to warm up.The warm water is not habitable for many species.
Warming oceans impact life in the ocean also impacts humans because fish and other protein food sources are vital to humans.If the ocean continues warming up the way it does humans won't have any fishes and tourism economies will be affected
1901-2015, temperature rose at an average rate of 0.13°F per decade
coral bleaching happens when a is stress response caused by high sea temperatures that can lead to coral dying
directly affect the metabolism, life cycle, and behaviour of ocean life
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The ocean’s heat capacity is about thousand times larger than the heat capacity the atmosphere,
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Rising sea levels
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When seawater reaches inland, it can cause destructive erosion, wetland flooding, agricultural soil contamination, and lost habitat.
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Rising sea levels are drowning wetlands, coral reef and sea grass meadows
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Ocean acidification
The ocean absorb a large amount of the carbon dioxide released by human activities, the oceans become acidic.
Ocean acidification makes it harder for mollusks and other shelled creatures to build calcium carbonate shells
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Burning fossil fuels that increase greenhouse gases levels atmosphere alter chemical composition of seawater making it more acidification
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When carbon dioxide dissolves in oceans carbonic acid is main. This results in higher acidity, mainly near the surface of the ocean
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How is climate affected
The difference in temperature between the inland cities and cities surrounded by water is the drives the development of prevailing wing. In the winter months, the much colder air over a continent flows outward toward the ocean, and in the summer months, the much hotter air over a continent draws moist air inland, bringing forth summer rains
Without ocean currents, regional temperatures would be more harsh and extreme they would be super hot at the equator and cold toward the poles and much less of Earth’s land would be habitable to life.
Transfer of heat via ocean currents, convection, conduction and radiation
Heat is transferred between the surface of the ocean and other bodies of water and the atmosphere through radiation, convection, and turbulent heat exchange, the evaporation, and condensation above the ocean.
When air is in contact with the ocean is at a different temperature than the sea surface, heat transfer by conduction takes place.
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Ocean life
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coral bleaching results in the starvation, shrinkage, and death of the corals that are needed for thousands of marine life that live on coral reefs.
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