It's not just ocean temps Patrick, it's also Ph levels and as they drop, the acidity of the oceans makes it harder for crustaceans to survive. Their calcium carbonate shells dissolve. And that is happening now.
For reference: Elizabeth Kolbert, 'Field Notes From A Catastrophe', and / or 'The Sixth Extinction'
But yeah, nuclear war would result in higher levels of radiation in the oceans, from fallout, nuclear weapon detonating underwater, nuclear powered vessel being destroyed or Fukushima?
That combined with higher temps and lower Ph would be a rerun of the End Permian Extinction.
Life would survive in the oceans after nuclear war. But boil those oceans and everything dies.
It's not just ocean temps Patrick, it's also Ph levels and as they drop, the acidity of the oceans makes it harder for crustaceans to survive. Their calcium carbonate shells dissolve. And that is happening now.
For reference: Elizabeth Kolbert, 'Field Notes From A Catastrophe', and / or 'The Sixth Extinction'
But yeah, nuclear war would result in higher levels of radiation in the oceans, from fallout, nuclear weapon detonating underwater, nuclear powered vessel being destroyed or Fukushima?
That combined with higher temps and lower Ph would be a rerun of the End Permian Extinction.