The United Kingdom Marine Climate Change Impacts Partnership (MCCIP) brings together scientists, government, its agencies and NGOs to provide co-ordinated advice on climate change impacts around our coast and in our seas.
Waves
Climate change in the marine environment
Black Head gulls © D Riches
Impacts on healthy and biological diverse marine ecosystems

MCCIP Newsletter

Issue 16

Partner News

UK climate projections launched:

Did you know?

The 2009 ecosystem linkages report card says that the following about CO2 and ocean acidification:

  • In the last 200 years, ocean acidity has increased by 30% and at a rate much faster than anytime in the last 65 million years. This has serious implications for marine ecosystems and climate regulation.

Marine climate change encyclopaedia

Flooding
Impacts on clean and safe seas
Port of Dover
Impacts on commercially productive seas
Photo of Gulls © D. Riches. Photo of flooding © M. Page.