80% of fish in parts of the Pacific expected to be wiped out as ocean temperatures rise

[Confounding]

Hopefully we don't have to have apocalypse level famine before science denying fools pull their heads out of their asses.

Pacific Island nations are expected to lose 50 to 80 percent of fish species by the end of the century.

The alarming number was published in a study by the Nippon Foundation-Nereus Program in Marine Policy. The oceans in the Pacific Islands in particular, according to the study, are expected to be the most severely affected by climate change in the next century. These waters are already the warmest of the global ocean, and with less seasonal variability, animals in this area may be more shocked by changing conditions.

“Under climate change, the Pacific Islands region is projected to become warmer, less oxygenated, more acidic, and have lower production of plankton that form the base of oceanic food webs,” Rebecca Asch, lead author of the study and assistant professor of in the biology department at East Carolina University, said in a statement. “We found that local extinction of marine species exceed 50 percent of current biodiversity levels across many regions and at times reached levels over 80 percent.”

 

[frigidweirdo]

Hopefully we don't have to have apocalypse level famine before science denying fools pull their heads out of their asses.

Pacific Island nations are expected to lose 50 to 80 percent of fish species by the end of the century.

The alarming number was published in a study by the Nippon Foundation-Nereus Program in Marine Policy. The oceans in the Pacific Islands in particular, according to the study, are expected to be the most severely affected by climate change in the next century. These waters are already the warmest of the global ocean, and with less seasonal variability, animals in this area may be more shocked by changing conditions.

“Under climate change, the Pacific Islands region is projected to become warmer, less oxygenated, more acidic, and have lower production of plankton that form the base of oceanic food webs,” Rebecca Asch, lead author of the study and assistant professor of in the biology department at East Carolina University, said in a statement. “We found that local extinction of marine species exceed 50 percent of current biodiversity levels across many regions and at times reached levels over 80 percent.”

This is has been mentioned lots of time, and ignored just as many by those on the right.

 

[USNavyVet]

[/QUOTE]This is has been mentioned lots of time, and ignored just as many by those on the right.[/QUOTE]

As it should be.

 

[Crixus]

Just a side note but, you do remember that our ozone layer is supposed to be gone and all the fish was supposed to from that right ?

 

[depotoo]

Geeesh, guys

Cooling Pacific has dampened global warming, research shows

http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2015/02/cold-pacific-ocean-offsetting-global-warming

November 2017 La Niña update: She's back! | NOAA Climate.gov
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ENSO Monitoring at the Climate Prediction Center. El Niño and La Niña are the warm and cool phases of a recurring climate pattern across the tropical Pacific—the El Niño-Southern Oscillation, or “ENSO” for short.

 

[DGS49]

OK now, THINK for a moment. Assume this report is true.

Elimination of 50% of the SPECIES is not equivalent to elimination of 50% of the FISH. In fact, the total number of fish may increase or decrease, but this report doesn't mention it.

The species of fish that would be eliminated are those that are less robust and adaptable.

Alarmist nonsense?

 

[Billy_Bob]

Hopefully we don't have to have apocalypse level famine before science denying fools pull their heads out of their asses.

Pacific Island nations are expected to lose 50 to 80 percent of fish species by the end of the century.

The alarming number was published in a study by the Nippon Foundation-Nereus Program in Marine Policy. The oceans in the Pacific Islands in particular, according to the study, are expected to be the most severely affected by climate change in the next century. These waters are already the warmest of the global ocean, and with less seasonal variability, animals in this area may be more shocked by changing conditions.

“Under climate change, the Pacific Islands region is projected to become warmer, less oxygenated, more acidic, and have lower production of plankton that form the base of oceanic food webs,” Rebecca Asch, lead author of the study and assistant professor of in the biology department at East Carolina University, said in a statement. “We found that local extinction of marine species exceed 50 percent of current biodiversity levels across many regions and at times reached levels over 80 percent.”

Not to worry... heat retention of the oceans has now turned to cooling..

Bloviating hype not based on science... The Socialists are reaching for anything to keep the CAGW lie alive.

 

[Billy_Bob]

OK now, THINK for a moment. Assume this report is true.

Elimination of 50% of the SPECIES is not equivalent to elimination of 50% of the FISH. In fact, the total number of fish may increase or decrease, but this report doesn't mention it.

The species of fish that would be eliminated are those that are less robust and adaptable.

Alarmist nonsense?

Alarmist Nonsense it is... Their positions assumes that current life on earth must remain static and that extinctions (which have happened for billions of years) are all mans fault... Its kind of like the temperature and the global warming lie.. when in earths history has the temprature been static? And just what is the 'right' temperature?

 

[Billy_Bob]

Just a side note but, you do remember that our ozone layer is supposed to be gone and all the fish was supposed to from that right ?

And that Ozone hole is back where it was in 1960.. back to average... And were still using CFC's...how did that happen?

 

[Crixus]

OK now, THINK for a moment. Assume this report is true.

Elimination of 50% of the SPECIES is not equivalent to elimination of 50% of the FISH. In fact, the total number of fish may increase or decrease, but this report doesn't mention it.

The species of fish that would be eliminated are those that are less robust and adaptable.

Alarmist nonsense?

You mean, weak ones would die, strong ones would live and adapt and stuff?

 

[Billy_Bob]

OK now, THINK for a moment. Assume this report is true.

Elimination of 50% of the SPECIES is not equivalent to elimination of 50% of the FISH. In fact, the total number of fish may increase or decrease, but this report doesn't mention it.

The species of fish that would be eliminated are those that are less robust and adaptable.

Alarmist nonsense?

You mean, weak ones would die, strong ones would live and adapt and stuff?

Isn't that how nature works? And has worked for eons?

 

[Crixus]

this brings to mind this little salamander we have hear in Texas. Its very rare and even rarely seen. So rare that specimens are typically sucked up from deep running wells. This happened to a guy and they tried to make him turn off his pumps. No study on what this thing was, where it lives or even how many there are. crazy shit.