The global warming of the ocean can affect not only the climate, but also totally crash the food chain. The bottom level of the food chain is the tiny planktons that have small size; still there are billions of them in the water. They are the food supply to many species living in the ocean including various fishes and even the marines.
Another case is about the phytoplankton, small green plants that are also the general food source for a lot of ocean inhabitants. Many species are strongly tied to this food chain, which meant they won’t get a chance to survive if the plankton and phytoplankton disappear from the water. However the so needed plants grow much faster in the cool water, which meant the global warming ocean will cause the severe emission of the phytoplankton, a lot of creatures are going to stay hungry or even die.
The slow growing of the plants will slow down even more until at some drastic point it will just stop. The fish will start disappearing an so will the ocean mammals and birds who usually used the fish as the main food source. Now we can see that the tiny green plants can easily affect the entire life circle in the ocean. Imagine, the phytoplankton is providing as much photosynthesis as all the plants on the land.
The other terrifying statistics tell us that the plants are responsible for the consumption of the dangerous carbon dioxide. If this gas is not consumed, the global warming ocean is going to go on with the drastic speed.
The climate is depending on several factors, and one of them is the condition of the ocean. Monitoring the temperature of the sea surface and the winds on the ocean, we can predict the time we have left until the changes in climate will become irreversible.
