International Oceans Day - Raise Awareness For What's Really Important

The Oceans Are Literally The Life Blood Of This Planet.  It's why SlipIns feels compelled to do all we can to raise awareness for Ocean Protection.  Our Sun Protection Swimwear fits solidly into those efforts.

Many people think of rainforests as the Earth's primary lungs, but the ocean actually produces over 50% of the world's oxygen. This is driven by phytoplankton—microscopic marine plants, algae, and certain bacteria that live near the ocean surface. Like land plants, they use photosynthesis to absorb carbon dioxide and release oxygen.                                                                                   

The ocean acts as a massive solar energy collector and heat distributor. Water has a high specific heat capacity, meaning it absorbs a tremendous amount of heat without a massive change in temperature.

• Heat Absorption: The ocean absorbs over 90% of the excess heat generated by greenhouse gas emissions.
• Global Circulation: Ocean currents act like a global conveyor belt, moving warm water and precipitation from the equator toward the poles and cold water back to the tropics. Without this regulation, regional climates would be too extreme for most life to survive.

The ocean plays a critical role in mitigating climate change by locking away carbon. It stores roughly 50 times more carbon than the atmosphere. Marine organisms absorb carbon, and when they die, they sink to the ocean floor, effectively trapping that carbon in deep-sea sediments for thousands of years.

The ocean holds about 97% of Earth's water. The sun heats the ocean surface, causing evaporation, which rises into the atmosphere to form clouds. These clouds then travel over land and release freshwater as rain or snow, feeding our rivers, lakes, and agricultural lands before eventually flowing back into the sea.

The oceans touch each and everyone of us no matter where you are.  On some level, your very life is beholden to the oceans of the earth.  Having said all those things, don't you think it's time to be more interested in self preservation?  SlipIn's Sun Protection Swimwear allows the wearer to use less sun screen chemistry. It's a small thing but If we each do one small thing to improve the ocean's health we move down a better path to the future of the ocean and the earth.       

The US as well as the entire world is in the middle of crisis mode. Changes in climate, ocean pollution and climate change are all leading to the planet overheating and serious droughts occurring.  The Colorado River, which supplies water for all purposes to the entire western sectors of the US, is at it's lowest point in 100 years.  This situation is creating serious rifts between the western states,  

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Changes in Ocean currents directly affected by climate changes is causing the rain patterns to change as well which has resulted in major droughts in the western half of the country.  There is current discussions about rationing the water from the Colorado river which will affect water use for farming and crop production, electrical production, reductions in drinking water for major western municipalities, and many recreational locations. 

The latest concern that should be alarming to all of us is that fact that all the monitoring equipment that has been the greatest source of ocean health are being removed from the oceans.  This equipment has provided accurate, factual, and necessary information that has help scientists predict valuable weather changes and ocean current shifts that predict rainfall and temperature shifts.  Without that gear we are flying blind going forward.  Imagine trying to drive a car blindfolded with ear plugs in while the care is going at freeway speed.  That's the situation we are in without this data.

Ocean health dictates the success or failure of human life on earth.  If each of us does one thing each day to help improve the health of our oceans we will move towards human well being.  Find a way to help before it's too late.