New Scientist: The sheer diversity of ocean food webs has made experts fear it would be impossible to predict how climate change will affect marine ecology. But Mary O’Connor and colleagues at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, may have solved the problem. They have found that plankton, the basis of marine food webs, might react predictably to ocean warming. The team warmed 4-litre "microcosms" of seawater. They found that phytoplankton grew slightly faster with every degree of …