Minna Epps
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first heard Jun 2026
last heard 12 Jun
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Certainly.
So the ocean really is central to our climate, our economy, our overall well-being.
It stabilizes our climate, produces the oxygen that we breathe, and also is a fundamental for economic activities, whether it's shipping, tourism, offshore wind, fishing, etc.
So it really is our life support system that we're depending on.
Well, I think the perfect explanation is probably, first of all, out of sight, out of mind.
And the ocean has been providing these services.
which essentially have been taken for granted.
These have been free assets, so to say, and we've been depending on them.
But this is also very much changing from the viewing the ocean as an inexhaustible asset to really now the policy work is now looking at how do we deal with it as a finite one.
Yeah, so the ocean is one of our biggest allies when it comes to climate change.
But since we have continued to emit CO2 at a very, very large scale over the last, let's say, 50 plus years...
the pH value of the ocean is changing, so it's becoming more sour, essentially.
So that's one thing, that if we keep emitting CO2, the ocean, which has provided a service of absorbing this excess CO2, it also changes the ocean.
At the same time, climate change, as you know, is also making the oceans warmer.
And warmer ocean also results in more extreme weather events, et cetera, as well as marine heat waves.
So we're having increased ocean temperatures, which has a very distinct effect on ecosystem and their productivity.
as well as something called deoxygenation, which is essentially that the oxygen level in the ocean is declining on average between three to four percent, but it can be much, much higher at a regional scale.
So the ocean is becoming not just breathless, warmer and more sour.
And that basically changes the whole composition in the ocean and its health is therefore deteriorating.
Yeah, so as the ocean absorbs excess carbon dioxide, it changes, it becomes more sour and in terms of a lower pH value.
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