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Gonzo, I'm confused as well.
That link you posted takes you to a page with the last Pilot Charts for the North Atlantic as of 2002.
Is that what you are referring to ? 2002 seems a bit dated.

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Gonzo,
As rwatson has pointed out, the link you provided is to an index page of pilot charts, not to the charts themselves. What I'm requesting you provide is the link to the actual charts themselves.

For instance, here is a link to the January 2002 edition (apparently the most recent version) of the North Atlantic pilot chart. It would be most helpful if you would provide the link to, say, the January 1885 edition of the North Atlantic pilot chart. Then we could compare the two charts to see if your original assertion is correct, or whether the scientific study is correct.

 

Cmon guys...this is deflection, pure and simple.
Gonzo knows ******* well that he's offering nothing of value.
There doesn't seem to be much point in trying to directly argue or discuss with people using simpleton trolling techniques such as Gonzo is using here, i.e. to post a statement as vague and unsupported as he did and then play stupid by claiming "I already did. It is in the link" when all he's offered is "centuries of collected and cataloged data" with no pinpointing whatsoever of where in such a mass of homespun pages one might find the information that supports what he claims.
Don't feed the troll.

 

Heat waves over the ocean have ballooned and are wreaking havoc on marine life | Washington Post

Heat waves over the world’s oceans are becoming longer and more frequent, damaging coral reefs and creating chaos for aquatic species. A study published in the journal Nature Communications found a 54 percent increase in the number of days in which heat waves have cooked the oceans since 1925. The Nature study concurred that “we can expect further increases in marine heatwave days under continued global warming.”

* Coral reefs are bleaching four to five times as frequently as they did three decades ago.

* In 2014, sea surface temperatures in the northeast Pacific Ocean were 5 to 6 degrees above normal, with outsider species appearing up and down the West Coast of the United States, including ocean sunfish, warm-water blue shark, mahi mahi, a Pacific sea turtle, and marlin.

* The warm blob in the northeast Pacific caused increased mortality of sea lions, whales and seabirds, very low ocean primary productivity, an increase in warm-water copepod species in the Northern California region

* Sustained loss of kelp forests, reduced surface chlorophyll levels, which affect phytoplankton populations, mass mortality of marine invertebrates and reshaping of the community structure of ocean species.

 

A new directive from the 1% to the base.

Your orders....

The Growing Movement to Take Polluters to Court Over Climate Change https://newrepublic.com/article/146326/growing-movement-take-polluters-court-climate-change

The creeps stoop so low as to use obviously fake, staged events like this to generate unwarranted concern...

That green looks good and sets off the blue real nice.

Alive or dead, the color is pretty close and it's still all lumpy looking...what's the problem? Why hinder corporate profits over a hoax?

 

‘I cried…right into my mask’: Scientists say Guam’s reefs have bleached four years straight https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2016/08/03/i-cried-right-into-my-mask-these-coral-reefs-have-seen-a-devastating-four-years-of-bleaching/?utm_term=.f76c6866366b

Don't be fooled by all that delusional stuff. Remember, all that is somewhere else so it absolutely doesn't matter to the US of A. Stay the course. Stop the conspiracy.

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More than 90 percent of world's coral reefs will die by 2050

The world has lost roughly half its coral reefs in the last 30 years. Scientists are now scrambling to ensure that at least a fraction of these unique ecosystems survives beyond the next three decades. The health of the planet depends on it: Coral reefs support a quarter of all marine species, as well as half a billion people around the world."

More than 90 percent of coral reefs will die out by 2050 https://www.independent.co.uk/environment/environment-90-percent-coral-reefs-die-2050-climate-change-bleaching-pollution-a7626911.html

 

Japan’s Largest Coral Reef is 70% Dead Due to Bleaching https://www.theinertia.com/environment/japans-largest-coral-reef-is-70-dead-due-to-bleaching/

 

Overlooking the obvious typo (4.5 billion... pphhfft. Everyone with half a brain knows it's 6,000) this explains the hats, Make Ammonia Great Again!

 

Sea levels rising rapidly, new satellite research shows | Deccan Chronicle

At the current rate, the world's oceans on average will be at least 2 feet (61 centimeters) higher by the end of the century compared to today, according a study published in Proceedings of the National Academies of Sciences.

Sea level rise is caused by warming of the ocean and melting from glaciers and ice sheets. The research, based on 25 years of satellite data, shows that pace has quickened, mainly from the melting of massive ice sheets. It confirms scientists' computer simulations and is in line with predictions from the United Nations, which releases regular climate change reports.

"It's a big deal" because the projected sea level rise is a conservative estimate and it is likely to be higher, said lead author Steve Nerem of the University of Colorado.

 

Scientists discover new melting process in Antarctica | New Zealand Herald

A just-published Australian study found how melting glacial ice sheets make the ocean's surface layer less salty and more buoyant. That effectively stopped deep mixing in winter and allowed warm water at depth to retain its heat and further melt glaciers from below.

It further found fresh meltwater also reduced the formation and sinking of dense water in some regions around Antarctica, slowing ocean circulation which takes up and stores heat and carbon dioxide.

In combination, the two processes feed off each other to further accelerate climate change.

 

Unprecedented wave of large-mammal extinctions linked to ancient humans | PHYS.org

Homo sapiens, Neanderthals and other recent human relatives may have begun hunting large mammal species down to size - by way of extinction - at least 90,000 years earlier than previously thought, says a new study published in the journal Science. Prior research suggested that such large mammals began disappearing faster than their smaller counterparts - a phenomenon known as size-biased extinction - in Australia around 35,000 years ago.

With the help of emerging data from older fossil and rock records, the new study estimated that this size-biased extinction started at least 125,000 years ago in Africa. By that point, the average African mammal was already 50 percent smaller than those on other continents, the study reported, despite the fact that larger landmasses can typically support larger mammals. But as humans migrated out of Africa, other size-biased extinctions began occurring in regions and on timelines that coincide with known human migration patterns. Over time, the average body size of mammals on those other continents approached and then fell well below Africa's. Mammals that survived during the span were generally far smaller than those that went extinct.

By contrast, little support was found for the idea that climate change drove size-biased extinctions during the last 66 million years. Large and small mammals seemed equally vulnerable to temperature shifts throughout that span,

 

First genetically engineered coral created to help save reefs from climate change | The Independent

For the first time, researchers were able to apply a unique tool called CRISPR-Cas9 to edit coral genes. In the future they hope to identify genes involved in coral survival, especially those that help them tolerate the rising temperatures that have led to catastrophic reef “die-offs”. While scientists have emphasised that genetically enhanced “super-corals” are still a long way from becoming reality, this work is still thought to hold great promise for coral protection.

“We hope that future experiments using CRISPR-Cas9 will help us develop a better understanding of basic coral biology that we then can apply to predict – and perhaps ameliorate – what’s going to happen in the future due to a changing climate,” explained Dr Phillip Cleve, a geneticist and the lead author of the new study.

The study was published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

 

Climate change intensifies droughts in Europe | Science Daily

If global warming rises by three degrees, the drought regions in Europe will expand from 13 percent to 26 percent of the total area compared to the reference period of 1971 to 2000. If efforts are successful in limiting warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius, as stipulated in the Paris Climate Protection Agreement, the drought regions in Europe can be limited to 19 percent of the total area. With the exception of Scandinavia, the duration of the largest droughts in Europe will also last three to four times longer than in the past. Up to 400 million people could then be affected.

The study was published by Nature Climate Change.

 

Climate Change Makes Algae Cheat On Coral | Asian Scientist Magazine

In the symbiotic relationship of corals and algae, corals provide refuge and nutrients for algae to grow. In return, algae recycle waste from corals through photosynthesis, converting it into useful sugar and proteins for corals to survive. It was previous thought that a partner alga, called Symbiodinium, leave the coral host when ocean temperatures exceed 32ºC in a process that reveals coral’s bright white skeleton underneath, known as bleaching.

This study revealed that instead of suffering with their coral hosts, Symbiodinium were even happier at higher temperatures. In fact, they were less affected by warm water and even exploited their coral host for their own survival. Considering carbon and nitrogen as the ‘currency’ traded in the symbiotic relationship, the algae were increasing their sugar and protein ‘profits’ at the expense of the coral host. At the same time, the coral lost their carbon ‘savings account’ as a result of increased metabolism and respiration. With such an imbalance in the coral-alga economy, the coral eventually loses out.