Posted on 07/28/2017 8:27:36 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
Squid and anchovies, more commonly eaten by Britons holidaying abroad, are being drawn into UK waters in large numbers by climate change, according to major new report that suggests the nation’s long-lost bluefin tuna is also returning.
However, global warming is harming sea birds, such as puffins, fulmars, terns and razorbills, as the fish they rely on are driven north or deeper as waters warm. The analysis of the impact of climate on the UK’s seas, which draws on the work of 400 scientists, found a steady rise in water temperature.
It also found a clear rising trend in sea level, leading to much more frequent extreme high water events. Improved defences and forecasting have prevented an increase in coastal floods, but the report warns that sea level rise around the UK is likely to accelerate.
Many British sea birds are struggling to cope with climate change with populations of Atlantic puffins, fulmars, black-legged kittiwakes and common, Arctic and little terns all finding the fish they eat harder to come by. Severe summer storms are also having an impact, particularly on razorbills, whose nests can be damaged and whose chicks die more often.
Sir David Wankenoffen praised the scope of the new report: “Concern about the state of our seas has caused them to be studied more intensively – and extensively – than ever before. They have never been more important.”
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“Sir David Wankenoffen praised the scope of the new report: “Concern about the state of our seas has caused them to be studied more intensively – and extensively – than ever before. They have never been more important.””
Wankenoffen...Is that seriously his last name or is this a joke? Either way, this guy spends more time pocket pooling than on intellectual concepts as climate change is FAKE.
Climate changes. Cope.
Sir David Wankenoffen?................Methinks there is perfidy afoot!...............
Toss in a little cayenne pepper, some fava beans, a half a cup of Chianti...soups on.
Toss in a little cayenne pepper, some fava beans, a half a cup of Chianti...soups on.
Bush's Trump's Fault.
Sir David Attenborough is what the ORIGINAL ARTICLE HAS.
Someone is being perfidious..........
Bluefin tuna were common around the UK before the second world war, with the giant fish a popular target for “big game” fishermen. The decimation in later decades of the mackerel and herring that tuna eat then saw the giant fish disappear.
But shifting mackerel and herring populations and warming waters have seen the tuna return. “Sightings are definitely becoming more frequent,” said Frost, with large shoals seen off south-west England in 2015 and 2016.
They are having a hard time saying what is “new” and due to Globull Warming and what is simply a return to previous, and not so long ago, climate effects.
Sometimes it's hard to keep your stories propoganda straight.
Dammit, the world needs to stay completely Static. It must not undergo any changes!
so the climate is RETURNING to what it once was- but somehow, magically, man is responsible for the poor poor birds going hungry? My goodness- whatever did the birds do during warm climates Before the industrial age?
More CO2 means more food for trees and crops.
More “climate change” means easier access to seafood for the UK.
Not seeing a downside.
Climate change-BACK.
Note that “climate change” is making glaciers retreat in Greenland, and as the glaciers retreat, they are uncovering Viking villages that were settled about 1000 years ago (farming in Greenland not such a problem then). These villages were abandoned as the world turned colder and the glaciers advanced. Now the cycle goes back to what it was not so long ago.
I don’t understand the panic.
Oy vey! How did ocean life ever survive?
Stop Plate Tectonics Now!
Those squid, anchovies, tuna, mackerel and herring are nothing but right wing climate deniers!!
They should be taken into custody, then cleaned, cooked and eaten!
Such bull sh!t. Pay the UN taxes and make Al Gore richer—that’ll save us.
Those foreign squid, anchovies, tuna, mackerel and herring are just taking places alongside the chips that British fish are too lazy to occupy.
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