variability will continue to influence climate over a short-term
period, but within these natural fluctuations there will be an
overall long-term trend of global warming. Contributing
factors for climate change intensification include the
enhancement of global warming through increasing levels of
greenhouse gases, atmospheric aerosols, and land use
(increase deforestation and desertification). It is this long-term
global warming trend that will have dire consequences on our
marine climate.
There are those who dispute evidence supporting climate
change and its harmful impact on marine environment. Many
of the climate change deniers try to discredit evidence
supporting increases in global warming due to humans’
influence by referring to the Earth’s natural cycle tendencies
and stating that there have been no significant increases in
warming over the past few decades. Although the climate
undergoes varying cyclic changes, overwhelming evidence
points to dramatic increases in global warming
from fossil fuels, industrial and agricultural emissions, that
change atmospheric elements resulting in long-term climate
change. Human influence on climate change through the