The First Global Integrated Marine Assessment World Ocean Assessment 2016 Excerpts for climate change and atmospheric GHG pollution

Peter Carter Climate change and atmospheric GHG pollution In depth Page 28 in the UN Assessment J. Urgency of addressing threats to the ocean The greatest threat to the ocean comes from a failure to deal quickly with the manifold problems that have been described above. Many parts of the ocean have been seriously degraded. If the problems are not addressed, there is a major risk that they will combine to produce a destructive cycle of degradation in which the ocean can no longer provide many of the benefits that humans currently enjoy from it. Excerpts from Table 1. Pressures and Impacts of Human Activities ... on the Marine Environment (relevant to atmospheric GHG pollution total effects)