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.
Somebody post Goebles photo, please. More UN propaganda.
Sorry, not buying it.
And no one having advanced degrees in the physical sciences that I know buys it either.
Yup, I’ve one of those puppies too.
Easiest counter argument: Show us one prediction that came even close to occurring.
(Note: No “Department of Truth” corrections by the climate change crowd version of Winston Smith.)
If you buy in to the theory that CO2 is a pollutant the nuclear is the way to go. In fact until global climate change alarmists start advocating for nuclear power I will never believe a goddamn word they say.
My wife and I laughed with her, and I asked: "Do any of the children believe that foolishness?"
She raised her eyebrows and said, again in disbelief: "Some do!"
"Why do all the schools teach such nonsense?" I wondered.
She said: "I don't know, but it's scary. Some people think it's a form of child abuse."
"It is," I replied, "to frighten children like that with such insanity. And they also teach that the United States is the worst of all--that its a horrible, evil country, and yet people are climbing the walls to get in! I can't imagine why schools would teach children such stupidity--and scare the students like that! It's crazy!"
She said: "Yes. It is!"
She left laughing.
ROFLMAO!!!!
I forgot my post and then when I went and looked at it, melted butter made me spit out my non melted piece of chicken :)
That's a fair point.
However, it also assumes a receptive mindset is possible on the other side of the argument. In my particular case it isn't, unfortunately. Drugs, political radicalization, outright rejection of God, and other bad choices have precluded a rational mind.
But it may be helpful for some others though.
The enemies of America have pretty much taken over education and the culture in this country.
I wonder about that though. How much of the garbage is stuff developed countries shipped to Asia for disposal?
And Many people believe it!
Roughly half the US electorate actually supports the Democrat Party, which preaches that the USA is an evil, racist, nazi nation that must be destroyed.
How crazy is that?
America is truly locked in a Manichaean struggle between the Party of Good, the Republican Party, and the Democrat Party, the Party of Hate and Evil.
In a sane world, there would be no decision to make.
In a sane world, these schools would be closed down and the people teaching this garbage given a mop and told to do what they are qualified to do.
Sorry about that.
Actually, thank you.
Good laughs are no so easy to come by :)
These are the same people whose science says there are 157 human sexes.
bttt
When it doesn’t happen in 36 months, what will he say?
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“Yeah, but just think if it did!”
This guy talks about a die off of animals in the Bering Sea. The Bering was the scene of the greatest crab harvests in the 1970’s, which led to The Deadliest Catch becoming a TV series. The series was based on a book by a Bering sea crabber that I read in the late 80’s or early 90’s.
Oceans comprise about 70% or so of the global expanse. I don’t think all the countries in the world, working in concert, could irretrievably harm the ocean. Note, for example, after the BP disaster, the ocean cleaned itself up after BP was extorted for billions and billions of dollars and eco-warriors clean-up efforts.
“It’s all about attacking the USA. “
It’s all about extorting the US - $, $, $. Its always about the money!
This is all complete bull crap
the oceans run the planet
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.
Sounds like the only thing to do is round up the author of the agitprop piece and all others like him, ziptie their ankles to some bricks, and drop them off in the middle of the Pacific where they can best fight pollution. To help them out, we'll pretreat the drop area with buckets of blood in order to draw the sharks. Thanks Gritty.
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