The City of Port Townsend, Washington tourism guide. Learn about things to do when visiting and the history of Port Townsend with our guide of the city and surrounding area.
Learn more about how climate change will affect people and the environment in the following ways: 1  Agriculture. 2  Energy. 3  Water Supplies. 4  Health. 5  Plants, Animals, and Ecosystems. 6  Forests. 7  Recreation.
Ocean effects climate in three major ways. First the sun evaporates massive quantities of water from the ocean that form clouds. From those clouds nearly all of the rain and snow everywhere on earth falls, all from solar evaporation of ocean water. Secondly the ocean acts as a huge heat sink.