No baloney: Global Warming creates a largesse of lobster

Watts Up With That? ^ | July 9, 2012 | Anthony Watts

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Posted on July 9, 2012 by Anthony Watts

Lobster plate (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Who says “global warming” doesn’t have some positive value? Well I guess if you are a tofu chomping green that recoils at the thought of eating lobster, you wouldn’t see this in a positive light, but many people do.

Miguel Rakiewicz submits this in WUWT Tips and Notes today:

Newly abundant and much cheaper lobster thanks to Global Warming.
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A story published in The Toronto Star in print on Saturday, 07 July 2012, and on the web on Friday, 06 July 2012, (06 July 2012) http://www.thestar.com/business/article/1223031–lobster-is-now-cheaper-than-cold-cuts-in-some-places-mclobster-anyonereveals that lobster prices have gone down substantially enough to make it much more accessible to the average consumer.

On Friday, oversupply pushed the price to fishermen down to $2.50 a pound in Maine and $4 in Canada.

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As the text proceeds, it eventually gets to the reason for this economic and culinary miracle:Global Warming.

” [ Geoff Irvine, executive director of the Lobster Council of Canada ] blames global warming and increasing water temperatures for the current oversupply. The Maine lobsters have come to market a month early, because of the warm spring temperatures, he said. ”

A lobster, or more, in every pot is the gift of Global Warming. An interesting new slide for
Al Gore’s next show.

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Of course a warm spring doesn’t prove anything and we should remember that seafood is not climate. OTOH, we’ve been lectured that this warm spring is a likely signature of global warming, so I suppose we can posit a connection.

[txhurl]

They are also very cannibalistic.

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I think they prefer each other over anything else.

Which, awful as it is esthetically, OTOH, you have lobster-fed lobster. Concentrated. Yum.