Obama’s Science Czar: ‘Man-Made’ Climate Change Endangering Shrimp, Lobsters, Crabs

[Paladin]

Just the latest scare (other than Trump, Trump, Trump).

"President Obama’s top science and technology adviser warned that man-made climate change is putting shrimp, lobsters, crabs and oysters at risk.

John Holdren, the director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, said at a White House-sponsored event that some of the excess carbon dioxide dissolves in seawater to form carbonic acid.

Vice President Joe Biden, who also addressed the summit, said there would be “winners and losers” as the U.S. transitions to a sustainable energy source.

“This puts at risk all of the marine organisms that make their shells from calcium carbonate including shrimp, oysters, lobsters, crabs and many of the zooplankton near the base of ocean food webs,” Holdren said at the White House’s Summit on Climate & the Road through Paris: Business & Science. “We know too that climate change will continue for many decades to come.”

According to Holdren, the “pace and pattern of the changes in climate” that have occurred since the industrial revolution match with “great fidelity” what climate science told us would result from the buildup of heat-trapping gases in the atmosphere.

“Clear beyond reasonable doubt is that the ongoing human-caused changes in climate are already causing harm to life, property, economics and ecosystems including more extremely hot days and longer and stronger heat waves often accompanied by worse smog,” Holdren said.

“Longer allergy seasons, a larger fraction of total precipitation coming in extreme downpours resulting in floods and mudslides, an increase in the power of the strongest tropical storms, shoreline erosion and aggravation, coastal flooding by sea levels rising, longer and more intense droughts in regions prone to drought, a longer wildfire season and larger areas burned in regions prone to that and major impacts on ecosystem dynamics, including the factors governing pest outbreaks and geographic ranges of tropical diseases,” he added."

http://pjmedia.com/blog/obamas-science-czar-man-made-climate-change-endangering-shrimp-lobsters-crabs/

Tune in tomorrow for the newest one.

[EC]

Where does Young Einstein there think they GET the carbonate part of Calcuim Carbonate?!

Hint - dissolved CO2 has everything to do with it .....

Oysters are at risk due to chemical runoff - not raw sewage so much (they love that stuff but unfortunately we don't like them eating it), but fertilisers and generic chemical waste.

Shrimp are overfished, simple as that. They are pretty fussy about their breeding conditions though (don't judge, so are you!).

Lobster and some forms of crab - well, we have accidentally been breeding them for quite a while (like cod and freshwater game fish) to grow more slowly. They mature later, so again, breeding cycle gets interrupted.

Of those three, only one factor (the fussiness of shrimp) has anything to do with ocean temperature, and none of them have anything to do with CO2.

[Paladin]

Ok, and here is tomorrow's.

"An intolerable unimaginable heat forecast for Persian Gulf"

WSHINGTON — If carbon dioxide emissions continue at their current pace, by the end of century parts of the Persian Gulf will sometimes be just too hot for the human body to tolerate, a new study says.

How hot? The heat index — which combines heat and humidity — may hit 165 to 170 degrees (74 to 77 Celsius) for at least six hours, according to numerous computer simulations in the new study. That's so hot that the human body can't get rid of heat. The elderly and ill are hurt most by current heart waves, but the future is expected to be so hot that healthy, fit people would be endangered, health experts say.

"You can go to a wet sauna and put the temperature up to 35 (Celsius or 95 degrees Fahrenheit) or so. You can bear it for a while, now think of that at an extended exposure" of six or more hours, said study co-author Elfatih Eltahir, an MIT environmental engineering professor.

While humans have been around, Earth has not seen that type of prolonged, oppressive combination of heat and humidity, Eltahir said. But with the unique geography and climate of the Persian Gulf and increased warming projected if heat-trapping gas emissions continue to rise at current rates, it will happen every decade or so by the end of the century, according to the study published Monday in the journal Nature Climate Change.

This would be the type of heat that would make deadly heat wave in Europe in 2003 that killed more than 70,000 people "look like a refreshing day or event," said study co-author Jeremy Pal of Loyola Marymount University

It would still be rare, and cities such as Abu Dhabi, Dubai and Doha wouldn't quite be uninhabitable, thanks to air conditioning. But for people living and working outside or those with no air conditioning, it would be intolerable, said Eltahir and Pal. While Mecca won't be quite as hot, the heat will likely still cause many deaths during the annual hajj pilgrimage, Eltahir said."

http://www.msn.com/en-us/weather/topstories/an-intolerable-unimaginable-heat-forecast-for-persian-gulf/ar-BBmsf8d?ocid=spartandhp

What's the problem? Everyone along the Persian Gulf can simply move to Western Europe until it, too, becomes uninhabitable. Then on to the Arctic. Then on to, uh oh.

[ABX]

..and yet, in some areas, there have been record harvests.
http://www.knom.org/wp/blog/2015/05/22/norton-sound-boasts-record-breaking-winter-commercial-crab-harvest/

[flowers]

Climate change=redistribution of wealth.
Climate change=total control of the masses.

[Paladin]

"Global bishops call for 'complete decarbonisation' by 2050"

Didn't take long for this scam to develop its own constituency. I have read this several times and still have no idea who the "Global Bishops" are. Some kind of new rock group maybe?

"Bishops launched a global appeal Monday for a break-through at upcoming Paris climate talks, including a "complete decarbonisation" of the world's economy and more help for poor countries battling the effects of climate change.

The bishops said any agreement "should limit global temperature increases to avoid catastrophic climatic impacts, especially on the most vulnerable communities".

From across five continents they called "not only for 'drastic reduction in the emission of carbon dioxide and other toxic gasses', but also for ending the fossil fuel era".

The goal should be "complete decarbonisation by mid-century, in order to protect frontline communities suffering from the impacts of climate change, such as those in the Pacific Islands and in coastal regions".

The November 30-December 11 conference in Paris will be the culmination of six years of work since the ill-fated 2009 Copenhagen climate summit, which failed to lock down significant agreements.

The bishops urged those taking part to "keep in mind not only the technical but particularly the ethical and moral dimensions of climate change" as laid out in the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change.

"Those responsible for climate change have responsibilities to assist the most vulnerable in adapting and managing loss and damage and to share the necessary technology and knowhow," they said in a statement."

https://in.news.yahoo.com/global-bishops-call-complete-decarbonisation-151851702.html

Decarbonisation: it's the latest craze.

[Oceander]

There is no proof of the man-made part.  Climate change should be obvious - it changes at least 4 times a year - but the causal connection just ain't there.

[Sanguine]

Man-Made’ Climate Change Endangering Shrimp, Lobsters, Crabs

Then I'll switch to bacon.