1. The ocean is inextricably linked to climate change: currents influence continental temperature ranges; evaporation of water vapor forms clouds leading to rain, sleet and snow; oxygen output of phytoplankton is astounding outperforming the forests on the land surface; absorption of atmospheric carbon dioxide keeps this greenhouse gas in check and much much more. I have been deep into the deep blue and loving every breathless minute of it. You might say I am having a whale of a time.
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  2. I have just signed two contracts, both for a series of books on climate change. Watch this space for the next year and a half for information and illustrations of the impact of climate change on animals (both on the land and in the sea), plants, insects, and people. The first titles are on the climate change fever in the oceans. The ocean waters are warming as well as acidifying, changing coral reefs, and affecting all marine creatures including whales, dolphins, fish, marine plants, crabs, molluscs and of course the faceful, in your face Maori Wrasse fish (see illustration on this post).
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I am a Canadian author/illustrator of fiction and non-fiction for both trade and educational publishers in Canada, the US, and abroad. I have written 4 trade books for Orca books, illustrated and written over 2 dozen picture books and am coauthor/illustrator of an environmental middle-grade fiction series for Harper Collins Children's Books in India. Email: steve@stephenaitken.com
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