Posted on 09/05/2019 3:30:57 PM PDT by Gritty
The oceans are “crying for mercy,” a fact that is starkly revealed in a telling 900-page draft of a forthcoming UN report due for release September 25th. The draft report obtained by Agence France-Presse (AFP) assesses the status of the oceans and cyrosphere. It’s a landmark UN report, and it’s not a pretty picture.
In the final analysis, the report amounts to self-destruction that’s largely ignored by most of the leading countries throughout the world. It’s all about greenhouse gassing as a result of human interference in the climate system. People are heat machines!
The opening statement in AFP’s news release states: “The same oceans that nourished human evolution are poised to unleash misery on a global scale unless the carbon pollution destabilizing Earth’s marine environment is brought to heel.” (Source: Oceans Turning From Friend to Foe, Warns Landmark UN Climate Report, Agence France Presse, August 29, 2019)
This Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change “Special Report” states “destructive changes are already set in motion,” referencing loss of fish stocks, a 100-fold increase in super-storm damage, and hundreds of millions of people displaced by rising sea levels. A 100-fold increase of super-storms plus 100s of millions of displaced should draw immediate political action, like a WWII Marshall Plan to fight anthropogenic climate change, but will it happen?
Not only that, powerful evidence of the human link to radical biological shifts in the world’s oceans is poignantly described in Dahr Jamail’s brilliant book: ‘The End of Ice’ (The New Press, 2019)
Dahr describes a personal visit with Bruce Wright, senior scientist with the Aleutian Pribilof Islands Association and former section chief for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration for eleven years, to wit:
By 1975, the water in the Gulf of Alaska had already warmed up 2 c. At the time the entire biological system shifted, causing the Alaska Fish and Game Department to “shut down the fisheries to protect what was left… The dramatic shift across the biological system in the Gulf of Alaska in the 1970s was the first evidence of profound change that Wright witnessed and he attributed it directly to the waters being warmed by climate disruption.” (Jamail pg. 60)
Thereafter, Dahr fast-forwards to 2016 with shocking descriptions of the ravages of human-generated climate change, Jamail pgs. 60-64, as follows below:
“This last summer, the gulf warmed up 15°C warmer than normal in some areas,’ Wright told me, ‘Yes, you heard me right, 15°C. And it is now, overall, 5°C above normal in both the Gulf of Alaska and Bering Sea, and has been all winter long.”
“My head swam (Jamail). The biological shift that caused the fisheries to close in the 1970s came from a 2°C change in water temperature… Imagine what is going on out in the Gulf of Alaska right now,’ he said, giving several examples, including die-offs among fin whales.”
“We (Jamail and Wright) spoke about the declining numbers of halibut… The massive die-off of murres across the entirety of Alaska had been dominating the local news… witnessing the largest murre die-off in the state’s recorded history… starvation… striking numbers, by tens of thousands… the result of water temperatures so high that ‘we not only had extensive paralytic shellfish poisoning, we had a huge bloom of Alexandrium… sand lances had become toxic from feeding on marine PSP toxin… These toxins moved up the food chain. Nearly every animal, from salmon to whales to cod to diving birds, like puffins, auks, cormorants, and terns eat the sand lances or the larvae… Sea otters, steller sea lions, and northern fur seals have all seen shocking population declines across western Alaska… All of our oceans are being affected by these toxic, harmful algal blooms now.”
“Later that summer, National Geographic reported how toxic algal blooms (as a result of warming oceans) were spreading across the planet, poisoning both people and marine life.”
“Wright was certain the driving factor was climate disruption, which was warming the North Pacific and Bering Sea and leading to a dramatic increase in PSP. Anyone foolish enough to come to the Aleutians and eat forage fish is playing Russian roulette with their life, he said. Alaska Division of Public Health states clearly that ‘some of these toxins are 1,000 times more potent than cyanide, and toxin levels contained in a single shellfish can be fatal to humans.”
Meanwhile, “Earth’s oceans continue to absorb over 90 percent of the excess heat trapped by greenhouse gases in the atmosphere.” It’s that source of ocean heat that’s primarily extinguishing marine life.
As such, civilization in toto is subjecting itself to suicidal behavior by failing to listen to scientists and failing to enact emergency measures to convert fossil fuels to renewables. It’s a deadly situation, but still not resonating nearly enough to save the oceans.
Additionally, according to the aforementioned AFP report, without cuts in human-caused emissions, at a minimum, 30 percent of the Northern Hemisphere’s permafrost will melt this century, which would release billions upon billions of tonnes of carbon into the atmosphere, which is already filled to the brim with greenhouse gases, thereby accelerating global warming.
All in all, the overall tragedy of the ocean crisis prompts obvious questions: What does it take for world political leadership (especially in America, purportedly, the leader of the free world) to push the big red emergency buttons? Should political leaders be transported to see first-hand sea animal deaths? Should world leaders be “challenged” to eat Alaskan forage fish?
The world community must hold its political leaders accountable for abject failure to react. If it were otherwise, meaning, listening to science and acting accordingly, then emergency governmental acts would be underway all across the globe… they’re not.
After all, it’s truly a life and death matter that is hidden from public view, as global warming hits hardest where the fewest people live but where the world’s most elementary and primary food chain is rapidly coming apart at the seams.
This was sent to me by a young family member who emailed me this article with the following warning: The conservative report is in. The cryosphere report is coming Sept 25. And, not to depress you, but Malcolm Light and Sam Carana are predicting the methane will spark in the atmosphere and we will all be boiled alive like lobsters in the next 18 to 36 months. Have a nice day!
It is getting really sweaty out there, folks. "Boiled alive like lobsters"... No wonder they are freaking out!
Yep. “UN Report” - all you need to verify its truthfulness.
The Oceans died in the 70’s, right after the Ice Age hit us where has this fool been
11.xxx years right? Too late now. We’re doomed.
#FakeScience
The Hidden Flaw in Greenhouse Theory
Falsification Of The Atmospheric CO2 Greenhouse Effects Within The Frame Of Physics
Harvard astrophysicist dismisses AGW theory, challenges peers to 'take back climate science'
Simple Chemistry and the Real Greenhouse Effect.
Those four articles each show that Greenhouse Theory itself has no basis in reality due to a direct conflict with the known laws of physics.
The dirty secret is renewables are nowhere near as clean as they claim with the huge amounts of raw materials needed to build them and dispose of them at the end of their lives.
If we want to stop CO2 emissions, there's only one answer -- nuclear power and lots of it. Even then, the CO2 required to built battery driven cars is immense.
Those that survive are gonna need a lot of those small forks and bibs.
...a 100-fold increase in super-storm damage, and hundreds of millions of people displaced by rising sea levels...
OK, WHERE were the 100s of millions displaced by rising sea levels.
Where are the images of where they lived before the rising levels and the images of those now being part of the sea?
Fair enough question
are predicting the methane will spark in the atmosphere and we will all be boiled alive like lobsters in the next 18 to 36 months. Have a nice day!
I started laughing when I got to the sentence that said:
“It’s a landmark UN report....”
Ping for later.
…7Then the first angel sounded his trumpet, and hail and fire mixed with blood were hurled down upon the earth. A third of the earth was burned up, along with a third of the trees and all the green grass. 8Then the second angel sounded his trumpet, and something like a great mountain burning with fire was thrown into the sea. A third of the sea turned to blood, 9a third of the living creatures in the sea died, and a third of the ships were destroyed.… ...and it's just getting started...
And melted butter.
” cryosphere “
New Leftist, socialist, Soros world government, 1984 terminology.
"The issue isn't the issue. The issue is the Revolution."
I know that but most people don’t believe in the GlobalClimateWarmingChange crap anyway, but they’re not entirely sure, so it’s good to keep putting some real science up to give them solid reasons to reject it completely.
All they ever do is lie.
UN/Climate liar: “I lie and I know they know I am lying but I do not care as I make big bucks lying”.
The U.N. aside for the moment, the japanese are fishing/whaling it out, and the indonesians (and other nations) use it as a toilet/garbage disposal. The U.S. is squeaky-clean by comparison.
Likely it will be ignored - either that or things have slightly changed and the timetable was slightly off, but the conclusions aren't! The Apocalypse is still just around the corner and it is rushing at us and will destroy us if we don't do something drastic NOW!
That "something" is, of course, the advancement of the Progressive/Radical/Communist agenda and the destruction of individual freedom and liberty to live our lives in the "pursuit of happiness".
One doesn't win these arguments with facts because they aren't fact based. They are emotion and ideological based.
It’s all about attacking the USA. To be fair,the rest of the planet’s countries treat the Oceans like a toilet.
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