Our Oceans are Under Attack

[Frosty]

Thats because you a tough guy.---like me!!!

Yes I like that earth song too, Im sad that Michael is dead I didnt care much for his monkey but his music was gifted.

Is that an odd comment too --? Im an odd comment kinda guy.

[Boston]

a while back we discussed plastics in the ocean, well we've got an ocean full of BPA as well

http://news.yahoo.com/soaring-bpa-le...221408095.html

[brian eiland]

Australian scientists have thrown new light on the mechanism behind the mass death of corals worldwide as the Earth’s climate warms.

Coral bleaching, one of the most devastating events affecting coral reefs around the planet, is triggered by rising water temperatures. It occurs when the corals and their symbiotic algae become heat-stressed, and the algae which feed the corals either die or are expelled by the coral.

...story with photos
http://www.sail-world.com/index.cfm?...&ntid=30&rid=4

[brian eiland]

It might be appealing to think of sailing through the dreaded North West Passage above Canada, but most cruising sailors would gladly give it a miss if it meant we could reduce the apparently irreversible (if you go by the feeble reactions of many nations) effects of the global warming which is producing it.

The International Energy Agency has just warned that climate change is irreversible by 2017. Arctic Sea ice is shrinking so rapidly that by the summer in as little as four years’ time it could vanish altogether at the top of the globe

'Polar bears depend completely on ice for hunting'

...story with photos
http://www.sail-world.com/cruising/i...d=90925&rid=11

[brian eiland]

NASA and the National Science Foundation (NSF) funded researchers will travel next month to one of Antarctica's most active, remote and harsh spots to determine how changes in the waters circulating under an active ice sheet are causing a glacier to accelerate and drain into the sea.

The international team undertaking this science expedition will be the most extensive ever deployed to Pine Island Glacier. It is the area of the ice-covered continent that concerns scientists most because of its potential to cause a rapid rise in sea level. Satellite measurements have shown this area is losing ice and surrounding glaciers are thinning, raising the possibility the ice could flow rapidly out to sea.

http://www.sail-world.com/index.cfm?Nid=90804&refre=y&ntid=30&rid=4

[Boston]

we're basically screwed Brian. No way around it. At this point we really need to start thinking of mitigation practices that might allow us to survive either a runaway greenhouse effect ( less likely but still worth planning for ) or a snowball earth event ( more likely to occur and less likely we can survive it )

Not sure what those preparations might be but given that we have exceeded worst case scenario's on GHG emissions it might be fair to say there's not much time left. I would have said something like 2040 but thats just my own rough estimate. I'm sure the energy commission's is far more accurate