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Good to know that plankton are increasing. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plankton
"Though many planktonic species are microscopic in size, plankton includes organisms covering a wide range of sizes, including large organisms such as jellyfish.[2]" "By contrast, meroplankton are only planktic for part of their lives (usually the larval stage), and then graduate to either a nektic or benthic (sea floor) existence. Examples of meroplankton include the larvae of sea urchins, starfish, crustaceans, marine worms, and most fish.[6]"

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plankton

"Food chain[edit]
Aside from representing the bottom few levels of a food chain that supports commercially important fisheries, plankton ecosystems play a role in the biogeochemical cycles of many important chemical elements, including the ocean's carbon cycle.[15]"

"Carbon cycle[edit]
Primarily by grazing on phytoplankton, zooplankton provide carbon to the planktic foodweb, either respiring it to provide metabolic energy, or upon death as biomass or detritus. Organic material tends to be denser than seawater, and as a result it sinks into open ocean ecosystems away from the coastlines, transporting carbon along with it. This process is known as the biological pump, and it is one reason that oceans constitute the largest carbon sink on Earth."

 

"What difference at this point does it make?"
Hillary Clinton

 

Bizarre 'lake under the sea' kills whatever swims there | Mother Nature Network

 

Published on Oct 30, 2016

Join Leonardo DiCaprio as he explores the topic of climate change, and discovers what
must be done today to prevent catastrophic disruption of life on our planet.​

 

Paris Climate Change Deal Becomes International Law | New York Times

The Paris Agreement to combat climate change became international law on Friday. While the agreement is legally binding, the emissions reductions that each country has committed to are not. Instead, the agreement seeks to create a transparent system that will allow the public to monitor how well each country is doing in meeting its goals in hopes that this will motivate them to transition more quickly to clean, renewable energy like wind, solar and hydropower.

 

Oil majors join forces in climate push with renewable energy fund | Reuters

The seven oil and gas companies are: BP, Eni, Repsol, Saudi Aramco, Royal Dutch Shell, Statoil and Total.

The fund will be an investment vehicle that will focus on developing technologies to lower emissions and increase car engine and fuel efficiency, and will also focus on ways to reduce costs of carbon capture and storage (CCS) technology, which involves capturing carbon dioxide emissions produced from fossil fuel burning plants and re-injecting them into underground caverns.

OGCI leaders called on governments last year to set a price on carbon emissions to encourage the use of cleaner technologies, although some companies including Exxon Mobil have resisted the idea.

 

Study predicts deserts in Spain if global warming continues | PHYS.org

Southern Spain will become desert and deciduous forests will vanish from much of the Mediterranean basin unless global warming is reined in sharply, according to a study published in Science and released Thursday...

 

These are the cities most at risk from sea level rise | Mashable

"If the Paris Agreement fails and the worst-case scenario comes to pass, South Florida and the boot of Louisiana would not likely survive this century. Many more places, from Boston to Shanghai, would be gravely threatened,” said Ben Strauss, a sea level rise researcher at the nonprofit group Climate Central who is unaffiliated with the new study. ..

"If warming continues above 2 degrees Celsius, then, by 2100, sea level will be rising faster than at any time during human civilization," the study says.

Here are some of the heavily populated, rapidly growing cities with at least 2.9 feet of sea level rise expected by 2100, according to the study:

• Dakar, Senegal
  
• Guangzhou, China
  
• Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
  
• Lagos, Nigeria
  
• Manila, Philippines
  
• Qingdao, China

 

Why do seabirds mistake plastic debris for food? | Christian Science Monitor

...Savoca found that a group of seabirds that have particularly keen senses of smell, such as albatrosses, shearwaters, and petrels, use their sniffers to locate a particular odor compound, dimethyl sulfide (DMS), produced by algae when animals like krill munch on it. As the birds like to eat the organisms that eat the algae, a whiff of DMS signals to the seabirds that a snack is nearby. And, it turns out, when the algae coats plastic adrift in the ocean, it also reeks of DMS...

 

If you’re looking for good news about climate change, this is about the best there is right now | Washington Post

A paper published in Nature Communications shows is that from 2002 to 2014, plants appear to have gone into overdrive, and started pulling more carbon dioxide out of the air than they had before. The result was that the rate at which carbon dioxide accumulates in the atmosphere did not increase during this time period, although previously, it had grown considerably in concert with growing greenhouse gas emissions.

 

New Zealand had a7.5 earthquake last night,felt over most of New Zealand and our old pendulum clock stopped just after midnight and doors opened and closed.
No one has blamed it on the Super Moon event taking place yet but no doubt they will, and probably justified. It is closest to Earth now than it has been for a very long time.

New Zealand has had a massive increase in Americans wanting to come and live here, since the Election I wonder if this event will put them off.

They would be better off staying home as we have no protection in the event of hostilities and this is a very shaky country.

 

We should open the doors to all the USA celebrity's that want to jump ship for obvious reasons as NZ could do with these doers or other like minded and would help the economy and climate change issues needed to be urgently addressed.
A bit of NZ shaky ground is better than a inevitable fried ground.

 

Hi myark, everybody just thinks about money and will do anything for a few extra bucks and no thoughts for quality of life style and the Environment.
Our Politicians just s...t on NZ people and drag us down to the low levels of violent Cultures and Religions imported from all over the Glob.

New Zealand will be the first to receive the attentions of ambitious Nations wanting a great food basket and could be taken over with just a half dozen modern Super jets
carrying thousands of troops, and no one will be concerned.

Our latest quake is going to cost billions to fix www.tvnz.co.nz/news and every city in the country is short on housing already and Health services.
The more people we attract the greater the demand for every thing and people talk about sustainability, what a joke.

No one has the time or interest to even think about saving the planet it is just a matter of surviving . That it what we think.