Global warming blamed for Pacific marine life passing into Atlantic
Last Updated: Mon, 27 Jun 2011 04:23:00 +1000
Scientists are warning that global warming has allowed marine life from the Pacific Ocean to pass into the Atlantic for the first time in thousands of years.
The world’s northern oceans used to have permanent ice cover, but that ice has thinned and melted to such as extent that the region can now be navigated.
Not just by boats, but also sea creatures from giant whales to single-cell plankton.
Plankton consists of microscopic plants called phytoplankton and tiny animals called zooplankton.
Pathetic. It has gotten to the point now where they just make stuff up.
http://www.arctic.io/observations/8/2011-06-26/4-N83.705579-W155.721916
“It has gotten to the point now where they just make stuff up.”
It didn’t used to be that way, prior to Hansen’s 1988 alarmist spiel in Congress. An article in Nature a year earlier bashed climate models:
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v329/n6135/pdf/329138a0.pdf
“The net effect of clouds is to provide a negative feedback on surface temperature, rather than the positive feedback found in earlier general circulation model studies without considering cloud optical depth feedbacks.”
h/t http://hockeyschtick.blogspot.com/2011/06/when-climate-science-was-science.html (has a New Scientist blurb on it too).
From the linked article:
“As yet the impact of this new species is unknown, but it will compete with existing types which may affect the availability of food for other sea life, including commercial fish.”
If the impact is unknown, then drawing ANY conclusions is pure hype.
From a more detailed Reuters report: http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=arctic-crossing-algae-whale-show-th
“”We now have two signals of organisms passing this open water in the Arctic,” said Katja Philippart of the Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research, which leads CLAMER.
Chances that gray whales had somehow survived undetected in the Atlantic region since 1700 — or that it had swum a far longer route such as around South America — were far less plausible, she told Reuters.”
“Less plausible” but equally possible maybe? The algae that crossed the “open water” couldn’t possibly have passed UNDER the ice then?
Summary: “We haven’t any real evidence, but here’s our analysis of the possible consequences anyway”.
Translation: “Send more money – we like this job”.
Are the whales and plankton using the Panama Canal, the Straight Of Magellan, or going around Cape Horn to get to the Atlantic Ocean?
They do not have the proper traveling papers to allow them to travel in those regions!
Who ever is writing this stuff either does not know WTF they are talking about or think no one else knows! It is linked to global warming funding so is “Good” “Science”=FUBAR!
Oh, no!
The Cape of Good Hope/Cape Argulhas and the Cape Horn are now land locked?
How did this happen and when?
However will/did ships from the Atlantic get to the Pacific and Indian Oceans?
LOL in Oregon
The whales have been around longer than man. I’m sure they know where they are headed.