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Multi-institutional study sheds new light into global warming ‘hiatus’

A new multi-institutional study of the so-called global warming “hiatus” phenomenon — the possible temporary slowdown of the global mean surface temperature (GMST) trend said to have occurred from 1998 to 2013 — concludes the hiatus simply represents a redistribution of energy within the Earth system, which includes the land, atmosphere and the ocean. (more…)

How Do Phytoplankton Survive Scarcity of a Critical Nutrient?

By Guest PostJuly 10, 2014Environmentfossile zapfen, hiatus, janet sinsheimer, joann manson, life on earth, north atlantic, oceanic heat sink, oceanographic institution, phosphorus, phytoplankton, sargasso sea, simon poppinga, survive, thomas speck, whoi, woods hole, zapfen

New study up-ends conventional wisdom

Phytoplankton—tiny, photosynthetic organisms—are essential to life on Earth, supplying us with roughly half the oxygen we breathe. Like all other life forms, phytoplankton require the element phosphorus to carry out critical cellular activity, but in some parts of the world’s ocean, P is in limited supply. How do phytoplankton survive when phosphorus is difficult to find? (more…)

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How Do Phytoplankton Survive Scarcity of a Critical Nutrient?