Humans, Marine Life Must to Adapt to Climate Change’s Effects on Oceans

Two marine scientists speaking at a AAAS discussion warned that humans and marine life will be forced to adapt to climate change’s effects on oceans already left vulnerable by over-fishing and pollution.

While mitigation efforts reducing greenhouse gas emissions are important, the speakers stressed that the world has already committed itself to decades of climate change, some of which is already underway.

Keith Brander, senior research scientist for the Danish Institute of Aquatic Resources at the Technical University of Denmark, said that changes in ocean temperature and acidity—attributed to the increase in global warming gasses from the burning of carbon-rich energy sources— has led to changes in marine species around Denmark.

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