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 News

Issue 9

Did you know?

The 2007-08 annual report card says that the following changes to temperature (air and sea) are already happening:

  • Marine air and sea surface temperatures (SST) have been rising at a similar rate to land air temperature, but with strong regional variations. Since the 1980s the rate of rise has been about 0.2–0.6 ºC per decade.
  • Warming has been faster in the English Channel and southern North Sea than within Scottish continental shelf waters.
  • 2006 was the second-warmest year in UK coastal waters since records began in 1870; seven of the 10 warmest years have occurred in the last decade.
  • Recent warming is also evident in waters of the upper 1,000 m of the North Atlantic.

8 April 2008

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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.