Ocean Literacy Talk Series | Ocean Warming of One Nuclear Bomb Explosion per Second?

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The oceans are one of the Earth's largest reservoirs of excess heat, and have been estimated to have absorbed excess energy equivalent to at least one nuclear bomb explosion per second since the beginning of the industrial period.

In this talk we will examine the physical, chemical, biological, ecological and societal impacts of such a warming, the science behind the warming, outline what kind of things help us make those statements about warming, and some things that might be able to help us control that warming.

Julian Mak is currently an associate professor in the Department of Ocean Science and Department of Mathematics at the HKUST and an  honourary researcher at the UK National Oceanography Centre. He is an applied mathematician by training, specialising in fluid dynamics, with a research focus on understanding and simulating the ocean circulation (particularly in the polar regions) and its…