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Cop 21 has set a new global agenda to address climate science, climate impacts, mitigation actions and adaptation measures. The effect of climate change on species natural cycles can be greatly disrupted when the climate changes. It represents the first of two volumes of the fourth national climate assessment, mandated by the global change research act of 1990. Microorganisms support the existence of all higher trophic life forms. Now is the time to make today the first day of the rest of your life. Understanding these impacts, as well as societys diverse perspectives and multiscale responses to the changing oceans, requires a correspondingly diverse body of scholarship in the physical, biological, and social sciences. Although it has farreaching consequences for humanity, attention to climate change impacts on the ocean lags behind concern for impacts on the atmosphere and land.
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