Oceans losing oxygen due to climate emergency

Deutsche Welle ^ | 12.07.2019 | John Silk

[Olog-hai]

The oceans are losing oxygen due to climate change, with dire consequences for marine life and vulnerable communities and fisheries, a nature conservation report revealed Saturday.

This is the “ultimate wake-up call” for humanity on ever increasing carbon emissions, according to the report, published at the UN Climate Change conference in Madrid.

The authors say the report, “Ocean deoxygenation: Everyone’s problem,” is the largest ever peer-reviewed study into the causes, impacts and possible solutions to the ocean’s oxygen loss. […]

According to the report, areas of water with low oxygen concentrations are expanding, with roughly 700 ocean areas across the globe now affected by low oxygen conditions — up from only 45 in the 1960s. Over the past five decades, the areas completely depleted of oxygen have quadrupled. …

[SaxxonWoods]

This is so important I think much more study is called for.

On their dime.

[Leaning Right]

Wow. The world’s oceans consist of billions and billions of gallons of water. I’m impressed that the Climate Change folks can measure such a large thing so accurately.

By the way, what is their measurement of uncertainty (the plus or minus)? The Climate Change folks never seem to talk about that.

[FiddlePig]

The less the long promised predicted disasters don’t happen, the worse it gets! Hmmm???

#Global Warming
#Climate Change
#Climate Crisis
#Climate Disruption
#Climate Emergency

Posted earlier on FR, but bears repeating IMHO:
“The conclusion must be that man-made climate change and the need to eliminate carbon emissions to avoid climate change simply do not exist.”

https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2019/11/the_climate_con.html

[bassmaner]

IBTGP (in before the Goebbels photo)

[Steve_Seattle]

"So the water is just two hydrogen molecules?"

Your sarcasm is on-point, as the article does not explain what it means for the oceans to be "deoxygenated." Does the ocean contain free oxygen amidst the water molecules and other chemicals found in it? If so, why would an alleged surplus of CO2, which contains oxygen, deplete the oxygen content? And what role does the free oxygen serve?

I guess as laymen we aren't supposed to ask any questions, but just panic and give the experts a green light to restrict our freedoms in whatever way they choose.

PS - I don't think that the ocean is free of problems, and that acidification and other imbalances probably need to be addressed, as long as they are real problems addressed with real solutions.

[Carriage Hill]

Red and brown algae tides are causing part of the problem, according to these people, in a 2005 article, which needs serious updating:

https://news.stanford.edu/news/2005/march16/gulf-030905.html

[PGR88]

There’s that word again: “peer-reviewed.”

[HotHunt]

Yet another extreme-sounding name added to the other extreme names for the climate changing.

[Louis Foxwell]

the delicate balance of marine life is thrown into disarray," said Dr Grethel Aguilar, Acting Director General at the The International Union for the Conservation

The belief that nature is delicate is not borne out by vigorous nature studies. Nature is not at all delicate. It is vigorous and belligerent.It adapts to ever changing environmental forces. Coral banks may be wiped out by a sudden change in current. It will just as quickly reestablish when the environment shifts again. The foolish notion that an ecosphere must remain absolutely stable and unchanging is magic thinking, not real nature.

[Steve_Seattle]

So what’s going to happen to Obama’s new ocean-front mansion first? Thousands of dead sea animals floating ashore, or complete inundation from the rising ocean (within ten or twelve years according to Bernie and AOC)?

[KC_Lion]

Stop asking so many questions!!

[Olog-hai]

Oxygen measurements at the very low concentrations (< 5 µmol O₂ per kg) found in some parts of LOZs (low oxygen zones) are technically challenging and the historical data at very low oxygen concentrations have been often suspect (Bianchi et al., 2012). Consequently, estimation of the extent and evolution of OMZs (oxygen minimum zones) with particularly low oxygen concentrations at their core (e.g. AMZs [anoxic marine zones]) are still uncertain. …

That’s from page 19 of the actual report, so already they are equivocating.

[himno hero]

just a variation of sexual emergency by the muslims.

these fake urgencies are what make bad policy.

has the UN gang of muslims ever gotten anything right? You have to ask why is it that islam is centuries behind the west..... and now they have emergencies?

Yep, in their eyes, “ it’s imperative that we bring down the west, now!!!”

[Steve_Seattle]

"The foolish notion that an ecosphere must remain absolutely stable and unchanging is magic thinking, not real nature."

I think a course in natural history would help dispel some of the climate-change hysteria. Where I live, some of the coastal bluffs ringing Puget Sound were created by a massive earthquake just a few hundred years ago - just looking at them, you can tell they aren't very old Ten thousand years ago, there were hundreds of feet of ice here, which carved out many of the north-south valleys in the area.

Millions of years ago, the climate was sub-tropical. Millions of years before that, what we call the Pacific Ocean extended nearly to the present-day Idaho/Washington border. If you look at a map of the San Juan Islands, they appear to be pieces of a puzzle that has gradually been separated by tectonic activity.

[tennmountainman]

Oh please. Why post this nonsense.

[fella]

No Problem

No money

So, problem no matter what.

[libh8er]

“Climate Emergency” is the new Climate Change.

[libh8er]

There are two other terms not on that list that you will be hearing more of : ‘Climate Collapse’ and ‘Climate Bomb’

[Blueflag]

Basic oceanography/ marine ecology.

[Olog-hai]

We do have to know how the enemy is changing their tactics. “Climate change” wasn’t working for them, so now it’s “climate emergency”. Perhaps next year it’ll be “climate catastrophe” or “climate armageddon” or something more dire-sounding.