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Ocean warming

Rising ocean temperatures and marine heatwaves alter marine habitats, species distributions and ecosystem processes.

Why it matters

Ocean warming interacts with other pressures, and local biological effects cannot be inferred from global temperature change alone.

What the sources establish

IPCC AR6 concludes that ocean warming and marine heatwaves are already affecting marine species, ecosystems and ecosystem services.
Source: https://www.ipcc.ch/report/ar6/wg2/chapter/chapter-3/

Published action

No project on this issue has passed the IMPACT publication gate yet. That is not evidence that no work exists.

Known and not established

Attribution of a local ecological change requires spatial, temporal and biological evidence.
This issue record is source-grounded context, not proof that any particular project, action or intervention is effective.

Sources

ipcc.ch

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Approaches associated with this problem

No independently reviewed solution comparison is published for this problem.

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