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Going on through saturday, the winds are going to be strong enough to really take over and the ocean currents are going to be less of an issue. and the winds are going to be more of an east, eventually southeastern direction. that will probably drift the oil slick closer to shore. if not, get it to shore, sometime over the weekend. as a matter of fact, to add insult to injury, the national weather service has issued a coastal flood watch not because of the ill slick. just because they expect to ...

This -- it sounds bad, and it is very, very serious, theres no question about it. but in comparison with the "exxon valdez" back in 1989, this is again much smaller for the time being. but again we have to share with our audience that it continues to grow. the "exxon valdez," though, if you were able to take that oil spill and pick it up and just drape it over parts of the united states, it would stretch from maine southward and cover even parts of virginia. so, again, its a much bigger territor...

Open ocean, we see them quite frequently. bill: what causes this wave, doctor? >> usually its a weather event of some sort, a big storm, hurricane, or something like that can create it. a lot of times, they occur where ocean currents and weather events interact such as off of south africa and off of the gulf stream of north america. bill: id say, doctor, the sun is out. thats not a blue sky day but pretty close to it. >> well, waves, of course, often times will be formed from a distance from som...

A carbon dioxide for photosynthesis after theyve bloomed the microorganisms sink down into the deep sea disposing of the c o two theyve incorporated. nutrients used for fertilization could be dispersed around the world by a major ocean currents that would increase plumes of phytoplankton and algae. but here too the potential for c o two capture ten percent at most and what effect it would have on the ecosystem is unclear and possibly risky. perience with climate engineering has been gathered on ...

Antarctic are especially susceptible to bright surface reflects the sunlight which helps keep the planet cool but if more more snow and ice melt less sunlight will be reflected so temperatures will rise speeding up the melting even further. research is predict that an overall rise of two degrees would raise sea levels by around four and a half meters by the end of the century. that would arise the multi-verse for example from the map the melting of the polar ice caps is also changing ocean curre...

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