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🌎 Blue Planet 🌎

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Above the Pacific Ocean: NASA DSCOVR:EPIC, July 20, 2022

Watery World: The ocean covers ~70 percent of the Earth's surface

The makes the planet appear blue when viewed from space.

The ocean makes all life on Earth possible.

* https://www.nationalgeographic.org/article/all-about-the-ocean/

Earth's ocean contains about 1.35 billion cubic kilometers (324 million cubic miles) of water, which is about 97 percent of all the water on Earth.

“The health of the ocean and humankind are so deeply intertwined that we ignore the connection at our peril." -- UN Climate Change's first mandated Ocean and Climate Change Dialogue - a yearly stepping stone to greater ambition for ocean-climate action (2022)

• https://unfccc.int/news/bonn-dialogue-urges-ocean-based-climate-action

On the front line of climate change, the ocean, coastlines and coastal communities are being disproportionately impacted by increasing carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gas emissions from human activities. To tackle this, governments at COP26 in Glasgow set in place an annual dialogue to strengthen ocean and climate change action.

The first Ocean and Climate Change Dialogue took place during the June 2022 Bonn Climate Change Conference.

• https://unfccc.int/event/ocean-and-climate-change-dialogue-2022

• https://www.climate.gov/news-features/understanding-climate/climate-change-ocean-heat-content

Earth's Water, Saltwater, Freshwater, Water, Water Everywhere

• https://olc.worldbank.org/sites/default/files/sco/E7B1C4DE-C187-5EDB-3EF2-897802DEA3BF/Nasa/chapter1.html

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"A single kind of blue-green algae in the ocean produces the oxygen in one of every five breaths we take"

-- from "The World Is Blue: How Our Fate and the Ocean’s Are One" by Sylvia Earle / National Geographic

(It's All Related - Warming oceans are being studied as a threat to blue-green, oxygen-producing life)

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