2 Matching Annotations
- Nov 2023
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climatetippingpoints.info climatetippingpoints.info
Tags
- topic: tipping points
- Greenland Ice Sheet
- Labrodor Sea/Subpolar Gyre
- Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation
- Low-Laitude Coral Reefs
- Sahel/West African Monsoon
- West Antarctic Ice Sheet
- expert: David Armstrong McKay
- Extra-Polar Mountain Glaciers
- Boreal Forest
- Arctic Winter Sea Ice
- Barents Sea Ice
- East Antarctic Subglacial Basins
- process: coral bleaching
- Boreal Permafrost
- East Antarctic Ice Sheet
- Triggering Climate Tipping Points
- Amazon Rainforest
Annotators
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- Aug 2022
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www.esa.int www.esa.int
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Every 60 seconds the equivalent of a lorry-load of plastic enters the global ocean. Where does it end up? Right now, researchers simply don’t know. But in a bid to help find out, an ESA-led project developed floating transmitters whose passage can be tracked over time, helping in turn to guide a sophisticated software model of marine plastic litter accumulation.
Huh? The plastic ends up in the Garbage Patches - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Pacific_garbage_patch
This is a surprising and disappointing oversight by ESA.
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