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The dangers of a noisy ocean - and how we can quiet it down On March 13, 2019, I received the following email. I thought it was a prank, but it turned out to be REAL (apparently this is a common response to these emails). Dear Nicola, together with my colleagues at TED we’ve been reading your writings for a while.  I was particularly interested on your story about climate change shifting lines on maps ( this one ). Climate zones have been shifting for a few decades, sadly, and there are additional phenomena that you don’t cover in your article (such as the tree lines moving uphill in the Alps). But I found your article a really interesting way to frame climate change in a visible way. And it’s a way that we haven’t tried as a TEDTalk yet.  So I’ve been wondering whether you would be interested in discussing and exploring the possibility of turning this article into a TEDTalk. I’m the Global Curator of TED ( www.ted.com ) and we are currently planning our 2019 internatio...