Crucial marine food chain link withers
It seems that hardly a day goes be without some more bad news about Global Warming. This one is very important.
It's bad enough that we have drastically reduced the worlds fish populations (see here) but now this:
Crucial marine food chain link withers
WASHINGTON - In a "sneak peak" revealing a grim side effect of future warmer seas, new NASA satellite data find that the vital base of the ocean food web shrinks when the world's seas get hotter. And that discovery has scientists worried about how much food marine life will have as global warming progresses.
The data show a significant link between warmer water — either from the El Nino weather phenomenon or global warming — and reduced production of phytoplankton of the world's oceans, according to a study in Thursday's journal Nature.
Read entire article online here.
See the full NASA study here.
