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Don't talk that way. I'm carrying a loaded gun these days.
Aljazeera is not where I get my news you might as well watch MSNBC
The sky is falling !!! The sky is falling !!!!I wonder what type of man made greenhouse gasses were around the last time it was melted to bare ground ?
http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2015/11/ohoh_nasa_study_finds_antarctic_ice_cap_growing.html
I'm not worried about it. I have plenty of snow every year, where I live in Waterford. Hemust be hooked into the global warming community.
So long before man's influence on atmospheric greenhouse gas concentration the snowfield's extent waxed and waned as most of the physical parameters of the natural landscape do.Aloha
Sure the surface water has warmed recently based on satellite imagery...sure we put co2 gas into the atmosphere...surely CO2 is a greenhouse gas..surely the climate has warmed in the last couple of 100 years....but the deeper water where the cod live is an entirely different animal....and linking the two is like I said above politically motivated.Most people do not have enough scientific information or background to be able to critically review this stuff, and they are just being snowed by the politicians and the complicit press.
Although I am very interested in the health of our waters and fisheries (as we all should as anglers), I am no expert on the subject.After some research, I found some info Id like to share.It seems Atlantic cod activity tails off at a max depth of 360ft (summer) and 440ft (winter). Most spawn in the 200ft range, and have been found to spawn in 3ft of water. It seems they do mostly exist in the euphotic zone of warmer water.Ocean stratification is being affected by the non-mixing of the euphotic and (the next layer) disphotic zones, where the nutrients phytoplankton need are located. Any change on the phytoplankton level affects the upward links in the food chain, for better or worse.Phytoplankton take in carbon dioxide (giving off 50% of our oxygen) and live in the euphotic zone, where light can penetrate to power photosynthesis. This layer of the ocean can be at max depth of around 600ft depending on clarity. These plankton are eaten by zooplankton (1st link in marine food chain), and those are eaten by baitfish. They will drift/swim as desired locations change, which effects the food chain as well. Just some observations....
http://www.sciencealert.com/a-mini-ice-age-is-coming-in-the-next-15-years
It doesn’t negate the present situation.
cap might say “Only the surface is rising, the bottom is staying the same.”
It certainly does....Did you even read the link I provided concerning the oceanography and temperature history of the Gulf of Maine?
Doesn't this belong in the off topic section?