If we had died in the ocean, that would have been better.
Smetacek had actually tried to find an area of ocean that would feature diatoms.
James Lovelock, a hero to early environmentalists who proposed the Gaia hypothesis, has advocated placing long, vertical wave-driven pipes in the ocean that would pump nutrient-rich water to the surface to fertilize algae that would consume carbon dioxide.
"For example, there are not sufficient observations of the uptake of heat, particularly into the deep ocean, that would be one of the possible mechanisms to explain this warming hiatus".
We would take the cups as if they were writing some kind of secret message that they were somehow going to throw into the ocean, that would get back to somebody and send them to our military intelligence.
Melting ice shelves alone do not contribute significantly to sea level rise, but if those shelves collapse and ice from glaciers and ice sheets then melts in the ocean, that would create a much more significant issue, Trusel said.
The best way to bolster ocean monitoring, Lautenbacher reasoned, was with a sustained and globally integrated research effort based on satellites and sensing devices in the ocean that would generate continuous data streams.
Her post called on users to help CJ "see the mountains that he never got to climb, see the vast oceans that he would have loved, see tropical beaches and lands far and away".
There would be stories from boat captains of offshore, we started calling death gyres, where the rips all the different currents sweep the oceans surface, that would be the collection points for hundreds of dolphins and sea turtles and birds and even whales floating.
