Ocean News

I'm not seeing any ocean news in the last dozen or so posts.


By the way, the quotes are from posts #1, 2 and 3.

Just saying.

-Will (Dragonfly)

 

I try to post one science-related post each day, often ocean or water related. For instance:

7/13 Arctic Ocean Waves
7/12 Arctic Ocean Algae
7/11 Algae in mountain lakes
7/10 CO2 cuts
7/9 Arctic shorefast ice
7/8 Coastal marshes
7/7 Changes in terrestrial water
7/6 Marine fish adversely affected by warmth
7/5 South pole warming
7/4 Ocean currents changing

Would be happy to have the additions of your on-topic posts!

 

In rodeo, you only have to stay on a bronc for 60 seconds to score.
The broncs owner doesn't want the horse ridden till broke and tamed. More commercially valuable as a bucking bronc renting to rodeos.
A dead horse has little value to anyone, and beating a dead horse does not impress spectators!
Constant dire predictions of the earth's climate becoming inhospitable is a negative outlook.
A II posted Norway has vineyards now. Optimism! Is there no optimism among the AGW crowd?
Wouldn't, shouldn't, evidence our beautiful earth self regulates climate be welcome to all?

How does the ocean affect climate and weather on land? : Ocean Exploration Facts: NOAA Office of Ocean Exploration and Research https://oceanexplorer.noaa.gov/facts/climate.html

One way that the world’s ocean affects weather and climate is by playing an important role in keeping our planet warm. The majority of radiation from the sun is absorbed by the ocean, particularly in tropical waters around the equator, where the ocean acts like a massive, heat-retaining solar panel. Land areas also absorb some sunlight, and the atmosphere helps to retain heat that would otherwise quickly radiate into space after sunset.

The ocean doesn't just store solar radiation; it also helps to distribute heat around the globe. When water molecules are heated, they exchange freely with the air in a process called evaporation. Ocean water is constantly evaporating, increasing the temperature and humidity of the surrounding air to form rain and storms that are then carried by trade winds. In fact, almost all rain that falls on land starts off in the ocean. The tropics are particularly rainy because heat absorption, and thus ocean evaporation, is highest in this area.

Outside of Earth’s equatorial areas, weather patterns are driven largely by ocean currents. Currents are movements of ocean water in a continuous flow, created largely by surface winds but also partly by temperature and salinity gradients, Earth’s rotation, and tides. Major current systems typically flow clockwise in the northern hemisphere and counterclockwise in the southern hemisphere, in circular patterns that often trace the coastlines.

 

Perhaps the problem for younger people is their conditioning?
Outdoors climate will be what it will be. Warming isn't cause for weeping and wailing and gnashing of teeth. Was good in Roman and Medieval warm periods! Minoan warm period before that, probably was nice!
Indoor climate, HVAC, is the problem. It has a thermostat. Like the remote for the TV, everybody wants control of the thermostat!
They desperately hope CO2 is the outdoors thermostat! Sorry, it isn't, and I'm NOT sorry it isn't!

I was born and raised in Florida. While I was growing up, Schools were not airconditioned, our homes not airconditioned, most offices and stores not airconditioned, cars not airconditioned, only movie theatres were. We didn't die from heat, we went to the beach or to a movie! Or sprayed each other playing with the garden hose.

It's amazing what you can become used to! Optimism!
And adaptability! Find something to be grateful for! Stop being so negative! Isn't healthy!
How about, be grateful you perspire through your skin and not through your tongue, like a dog! Imagine your mouth tasting like your armpit? Euwe!

At age 72 teen, I'm grateful every day, that wrinkles don't hurt!

.Currently, I live in Mexico with my young and lovely Mexican wife. We don't have airconditioning!
I like her hot!

Gracias El Senor!

Bite into a chili pepper and effortlessly you will break out in copious perspiration. Evaporation cooling! What a wonderful design our human bodies!

 

Elitist!
Your brobdingnagian vocabulary isn't Great Leviathan's sized as you intimate. And your perspicacity is deplorable.
Welcome to the well-read deplorables, Cuz!
English levels CEFR description- A1,A2,B1,B2,C1,C2 https://tracktest.eu/english-levels-cefr/

FYI, a society may be polyglot. Individuals are multilingual. To be polyglot as an individual, the rule of thumb is fluent in six or more distinct languages. Being able to speak French, Italian, and Spanish, all latin based, is less impressive than speaking, for example, Mandarin, Japanese, and Russian. All could be heard in the same region equal in size to Europe, but are very different languages!

 

First Glimpse Beneath an Ultraslow-Spreading Mid-Ocean Ridge https://www.maritime-executive.com/editorials/first-glimpse-beneath-an-ultraslow-spreading-mid-ocean-ridge
"a team of Norwegian scientists has used advanced electromagnetic technology to create the first-ever images of a specific type of mid-ocean ridge, as a way to learn more about the dynamic forces in the Earth’s mantle underneath. Their results have just been published in Nature."

"This image shows a cross section of the region surveyed for the study, with the ultraslow-spreading ridge at the centre. Arrows in the red areas at the top of the section show circulation patterns of seawater through the oceanic crust, which helps enrich the water with metals before it emerges from the ridge in a black smoker. Image: Johansen et al. Nature 2019"

"The ultraslow-spreading ridge that the team studied is called Mohns Ridge. It lies southwest of Svalbard and east of the coast of Greenland.

Here, the oceanic crust is very thin and there’s a prominent black smoker field in an area called Loki’s Castle. Black smokers are vents on the seafloor that release a steady stream of extremely hot, mineral-rich seawater."

-Will (Dragonfly)

 

I need a big bottle of that mineral rich sea water!
I take a spoonful of seawater everyday as a mineral supplement to my diet. Since I no longer spend most of each year at sea.
I credit the trace minerals in sea water I involuntarily ingested regularly throughout most of my life, as responsible for my excellent health in my mature years.

Most farm land is long depleted of minerals. Elements not in the ground can't be created in the vegetables growing there. We need other sources than our groceries for trace minerals!
Sea water has traces of everything!

 

"i; id est ad hominem, ad nauseam et ad infinitum" quoting Hoyt

 

nolo contendere plea is often used to avoid an unwinnable and embarrassing court jury trial. The defendant offers "no contest" to a guilty verdict. Without confessing or pleading guilty, the defendant agrees to be treated as if the court found them guilty, without offering any defense or appeal.

In effect, you are throwing yourself upon the mercy of the court.

Sometimes it's a plea bargain in exchange for a possible lighter sentence. The prosecutor may recommend clemency, but severity of sentence is entirely up to the judge despite any of prosecution's promises during plea bargaining.


Okay, wheres the rope?

 

Thanks, Cuz!

 

pol·y·glot
/ˈpälēˌɡlät/
noun
noun: polyglot; plural noun: polyglots
a person who knows and is able to use several languages.

 

You sesquipedalians are hilarious.

Maybe you should help with the marketing for the growing wave energy industry.
Global Wave Energy Industry (2020 to 2025) - Increasing R&D Investment and Focus on Clean Energy Generation Presents Opportunities https://www.globenewswire.com/news-release/2020/04/29/2024222/0/en/Global-Wave-Energy-Industry-2020-to-2025-Increasing-R-D-Investment-and-Focus-on-Clean-Energy-Generation-Presents-Opportunities.html

-Will (Dragonfly)

 

Some have argued that the southern third of the US was not really developed until after WWII when air-conditioning became readily available to middle-class homeowners and car owners.

How the Air Conditioner Made Modern America https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2011/07/keepin-it-cool-how-the-air-conditioner-made-modern-america/241892/

How Air-Conditioning Conquered America (Even the Pacific Northwest) https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/04/upshot/the-all-conquering-air-conditioner.html

The Air Conditioning Trap: How Cold Air Is Heating the World

.....The US already uses as much electricity for air conditioning each year as the UK uses in total. The IEA projects that as the rest of the world reaches similar levels, air conditioning will use about 13 percent of all electricity worldwide, and produce 2bn tonnes of CO2 a year – about the same amount as India, the world’s third-largest emitter, produces today.

All of these reports note the awful irony of this feedback loop: warmer temperatures lead to more air conditioning; more air conditioning leads to warmer temperatures. The problem posed by air conditioning resembles, in miniature, the problem we face in tackling the climate crisis. The solutions that we reach for most easily only bind us closer to the original problem.....​

 

How does air conditioning produce CO2? This is not part of the inherent dynamics of air conditioning technology. This is just the current state of electrical generation technology. Or, is it? Is it suggested that CO2 is produced by air conditioners or by their power source?

Here is an interesting article about attempting to control the weather by enhancing ocean currents. Can it be done? Can human activity be enough to change a global trend?

Add another item to the list of seven wonders of the modern world.

-Will (Dragonfly)

 

I graduated High School June 1966

Automobile air conditioning - Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automobile_air_conditioning
Cadillac Comfort Control which was a completely automatic heating and cooling system set by dial thermostat was introduced as an industry first in the 1964 model year.[22] By 1960 about 20% of all cars in the U.S. had air-conditioning, with the percentage increasing to 80% in the warm areas of the Southwest.[23] American Motors made air conditioning standard equipment on all AMC Ambassadors starting with the 1968 model year, a first in the mass market, with a base price starting at $2,671.[24][25] By 1969, 54% of domestic automobiles were equipped with air conditioning

John Gorrie


newenglishreview.org

• Apalachicola , Florida: Museum To The Man Who Invented Air Conditioning Florida native John Gorrie invented an air-refrigeration machine in the 1850s to cool hospital patients -- but no one paid attention at the time and he died, broke, at age 51.

The SOUTH is the genteel part of the country. We crackers say Yes Ma-am and No Sir to everybody as standard good manners.
Florida was the original cowboys, using bullwhips to drive cattle out of the scrub they hid in. Because of these whips, the name Florida Cracker arose. Florida is still a major cow raising state. The calves are shipped west for final fattening and slaughter, so Florida doesn't PRODUCE most of the beef, just the 500 pound half yearlings.(6 months old). Still produces a respectable amount of market ready beef as well.
Florida is First in Cattle https://www.farmflavor.com/florida/florida-ag-products/florida-first-cattle/