"It's never what you think."
We asked people about ocean health … and had a marine biologist fact-check their answers.
- with United Nations, UN Division for Ocean Affairs and the Law of the Sea and Madison McKay (@nudibranch_nerd).
We asked people about ocean health … and had a marine biologist fact-check their answers.
- with United Nations, UN Division for Ocean Affairs and the Law of the Sea and Madison McKay (@nudibranch_nerd).
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00:00What percentage of heat does the ocean absorb before warming?
00:02I'm gonna go 70.
00:03Oh, okay. All right.
00:06I'm a writing major.
00:07It's never what you think.
00:15True or false?
00:16Trees are the most efficient tool for absorbing CO2 from the atmosphere.
00:20Obviously trees, they take in CO2 and give us oxygen.
00:23It's a basic science question for a fourth grader.
00:27This one is false.
00:28Seagrass, which is an actual plant, are 35 times faster at absorbing carbon than trees.
00:35Excess amounts of carbon entering the ocean are pushing these sinks past their limits.
00:40About 90% of all seagrass, marsh, and mangrove species are threatened with extinction.
00:46True or false?
00:47More people have been to space than to the bottom of the ocean.
00:50Oh, that is true.
00:51You can't go to the freaking bottom of the ocean, bro.
00:53Bro, you're hitting it like pop.
00:54Pressure, we're like...
00:56Push it down.
00:57That is true.
00:59Only three people have been to the deepest point in the ocean, which is in the Mariana Trench.
01:03Luckily, their heads did not explode because they were in special deep sea submersibles.
01:08In comparison to this, over 500 people have been to space.
01:12This is pretty crazy considering the ocean covers over 70% of the planet,
01:16and only 10% of it has been seen.
01:19True or false?
01:20Traces of pharmaceutical products, including antibiotics,
01:23caffeine, and painkillers have been found in all areas of the ocean.
01:27It's true, man.
01:28It's crazy, man.
01:29It's true, man.
01:30You're right, man.
01:30It's crazy.
01:31The ocean is the ocean, man.
01:32It's the business, man.
01:33It's true.
01:34It's true, man.
01:36This one is true, unfortunately.
01:38This affects the animals that live on the surface of the ocean,
01:41but it also affects the animals that live on the surface of the ocean.
01:45This one is true, unfortunately.
01:47This affects the animals that live in those areas and can actually influence their biology.
01:52People eat fish, so that can come back and have health risks for humans as well.
01:56For this to change, we need better waste management systems
02:00and a better recycling program for these products.
02:03What is a marine heat wave?
02:14A marine heat wave is what it sounds like.
02:16It's a period of extremely high temperatures in the ocean that can last days to even months.
02:22Just like heat waves we experience, they can be dangerous and even deadly for marine life.
02:26What percentage of heat does the ocean absorb from global warming?
02:33This one is pretty crazy.
02:34The ocean absorbs over 90% of the heat from global warming.
02:38What is a dead zone?
02:45What is a dead zone?
02:47Poor Benny.
02:48It's just like how it sounds.
02:49A dead zone is a place where there is no life and it's from low oxygen levels.
02:54This is typically caused from runoff from fields and farms that use chemical fertilizers.
02:59And in less than a decade, dead zones have nearly doubled.
03:05So how do you feel towards the ocean?
03:07I feel like we kind of just like take the ocean for granted.
03:10I don't think people know.
03:12I want to give the ocean a hug.
03:14I want the public authorities to fund research on the ocean.
03:20I want us to move towards policies of subsidies.
03:22I want us to move towards policies of sensitization towards this.
03:25Stop sweeping the earth, man.
03:27It's not good.