Ocean News

Cod? You brought some back from Newfoundland?
Raise smoked mullet.

 

Well, I saw 2 mullet today, but one was on a guy's head.

 

Interesting tidbit on warming http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article...cians-blast-uns-absurd-crusade-against-global

 

thanks rasorinc.
the article you refer is worth quoting.


"a scathing white paper released by a society of French mathematicians calls its (UN) fight against global warming “absurd” and “a costly and pointless crusade”.

“You would probably have to go quite a long way back in human…history to find [such a] mad obsession,” according to a translated summary of the document released in September by the Paris-based Société de Calcul Mathématique SA."




"UN’s climate models have failed to take into account natural phenomena that affects climate far more than human activity.

Human impact on the climate is “tiny, quite negligible in comparison with natural causes,” they point out. “Human beings can do nothing about solar activity, the state of the oceans, the temperature of the Earth’s magna, or the composition of the atmosphere.”

Furthermore, the work done by the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) does not meet the basic standards set by reputable scientific journals because its “conclusions go [contrary] to observed facts; the figures used are deliberately chosen to support its conclusions (with no regard for the most basic scientific honesty); and the variability of natural phenomena is passed over without comment.”

 

The summary in English is available here (pdf).

The full white paper is available in French here (pdf).

They say they are translating the full paper into English. After they do so I suspect an analysis of it by the 'Alarmists' will be forthcoming.

 

Cod’s Continuing Decline Linked to Warming Gulf of Maine Waters | New York Times

Collapse of the Atlantic northwest cod fishery - Wikipedia

Capture of the Atlantic northwest cod stock in million tonnes, with Canadian capture in blue.

 

the Grand Banks are 100% Canadian waters.
Canada is well within it's rights to close their waters to foreign fishing fleets, if they choose.

 

Depending on exactly where you draw the boundaries of the Grand Banks, France has her thumb in the pie too.

Canada–France Maritime Boundary Case | Wikipedia

See also The Turbot War

 

I imagine some argue France was cheated.

'The United States' exclusive economic zone is the second largest in the world, right behind France, covering 11,351,000 km2. Areas of its EEZ are located in three oceans, the Gulf of Mexico, and the Caribbean Sea."

Magnuson-Stevens Fisheries Conservation and Management Act of 1976

France has many possessions around the world.

Justifying the largest EEC of any nation in the world.

It isn't that European France is small.
It's that OUR states compare with European states, and are deliberately named "states" because they are NOT provinces but independent States, united..

 

Una stamus, dividui cadimus.

 

Sunscreen Could Be Killing The World's Coral Reefs, Study Says | Huffington Post

 

"Sunscreen Could Be Killing The World's Coral Reefs, Study Says | Huffington Post


Quote:

Just one drop of the stuff can damage delicate corals.

A new study published this week is bringing even more bad news about the world’s dying corals. According to researchers, there may be another, oft-overlooked threat to reefs worldwide: sunscreen."


And you could die in your sleep tonight.
Better stay awake.

I'm in favor of using natural and safe alternatives for most things and don't object to using the paint pigments, titanium dioxide and zinc oxide, as sun screens.

But all these warnings, of maybe, might, could be, possibly, rot my socks.
When you have some real information, I'll be interested.
Speculation and conjecture a waste of ink.

If you need to worry about something,
"
Zinc White: Problems in Oil Paint
10/1/2014 12:00 PM

A paper written by scientists at the Smithsonian’s Museum Conservation Institute exposes long-term problems with zinc white in oil paint. The report “The Chemical and Mechanical Effects of Pigments on Drying Oils” describes the highlights of a 28-year study on the stability and strength of oil paint films. The results are revealing and have important implications for artwork made with artists’ oil paints containing zinc white.

A 28-year study exposes the potential problems of zinc oxide in artists’ oil paint.

The paper by Marion Mecklenburg and Charles Tumosa examines the drying of different drying oils, traditional pigments and commercially prepared artists’ oil paints. It also studies the differences of the effects of pigments on the long-term stiffening and film formation of paints. For the study, different pigments were ground in different oils, applied to polyester films and then stored in a controlled environment. Over the years, the paints were removed from the polyester film and tested mechanically as unsupported thin films.

Detail of a painting by Henry Cliffe shows severe cracking and interlayer cleavage in paint containing lead white and zinc white."

So don't leave that sunscreen on too long. (severe cracking and interlayer cleavage) after a few years.

 

and worry about survival of your art collection.

 

Here's some news. Will crack reach the ocean? I don't smoke it myself.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AFOacDWLwKM

http://rense.com/general31/overdue.htm

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/...wstone-supervolcano-eruption-magma-reservoir/

 

I've got smaller issues to worry about.