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Three Climatic Monsters with Asteroid Impact
Three Climatic Monsters with Asteroid Impact Continuing from Part 1: Monster #2 Greenhouse Gases (“GHG”) alter ecosystems. The biggest impact of anthropogenic GHG hits the oceans. There is no doubt about the importance of the oceans as a great sink, 2/3rds of the planet. After all, the oceans have saved humanity’s butt ever since industrialization […]
Oceans in Crisis: Gambling With Our Future
OCEANS IN CRISIS: GAMBLING WITH OUR FUTURE The threats posed by climate change and overexploitation of the oceans are already being felt. All will be affected, none more so than the poorest costal and island populations. With the crisis in our oceans and its devastating ecological consequences now abundantly clear, global solutions are needed. Overfishing, rising […]
An Oceanic Problem: the Atlantic Overturning Current is Slowing
An Oceanic Problem: the Atlantic Overturning Current is Slowing Photo by Michael Mayer | CC BY 2.0 The Atlantic Overturning Current is part of a worldwide twisted loop of ocean water, called the thermohaline cycle (thermo = heat, haline = salt), which emerges very salty and warm out of the Gulf of Mexico, travels north […]
Global Warming Zaps Oxygen
Global Warming Zaps Oxygen Photo by Todd Huffman | CC BY 2.0 Take a deep breath. A recent scientific study reveals disturbing loss of ocean oxygen. Unnerving climatic events like this justify ringing and clanging of the bells on the Public Square, all hands on deck. In particular, and as expected, the culprit is too […]
Inside the Dead Zone
Inside the Dead Zone It was at a point when linguistics, cultural anthropology and continental philosophy were converging that philosopher Martin Heidegger proclaimed ‘language is the house of the truth of being.’ The problem at hand was conceiving the role of language in an experiential (phenomenological) sense that closed the distance between the Western inheritance […]
Sea sends early warning of heatwaves
Sea sends early warning of heatwaves Feeling the heat as New York City swelters in extreme summer temperatures. Image: Bill via Flickr Surface temperatures in the Pacific Ocean can give the US Midwest and East Coast 50 days’ notice to prepare itself for a dangerous spell of extreme heat. LONDON, 8 April, 2016 – Americans could have as many […]
Oceans are heating up at the double
Oceans are heating up at the double The British survey ship HMS Challenger blazed an oceanic trail a century and a half ago. Image: William Frederick Mitchell via Wikimedia Commons Records from a sailing ship’s round-the-world research voyage almost 150 years ago provide further evidence that the Earth is continuing to warm unchecked. LONDON, 6 […]
WTO Ruling on Dolphin-Safe Tuna Labeling Illustrates Supremacy of Trade Agreements
WTO Ruling on Dolphin-Safe Tuna Labeling Illustrates Supremacy of Trade Agreements International trade deals like the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) need to be carefully examined piece by piece because they can take precedence over a country’s own laws. Case in point: the World Trade Organization (WTO) on Friday ruled that dolphin-safe tuna labeling rules — required […]
The race to fish: how fishing subsidies are emptying our oceans
The race to fish: how fishing subsidies are emptying our oceans Fish numbers are rapidly dwindling globally, and fishery subsidies are one of the key drivers behind this decline. In 2009, these subsidies totalled about US$35 billion, creating incentives for fishers around the world to increase their catch. But this short-term “race to fish” is jeopardising the […]
The Oceans Are Becoming Too Hot for Coral, and Sooner than We Expected
The Oceans Are Becoming Too Hot for Coral, and Sooner than We Expected Soon the oceans will be too warm to support thriving coral reefs. USFWS – Pacific Region/Flickr, CC BY This week, scientists registered their concern that super-warm conditions are building to a point where corals are severely threatened across the tropical Indian, Pacific and Atlantic oceans. They […]
As Ocean Waters Heat Up, A Quest to Create ‘Super Corals’
As Ocean Waters Heat Up, A Quest to Create ‘Super Corals’ With the world’s coral reefs increasingly threatened by warmer and more acidic seas, scientists are selectively breeding corals to create species with the best chance to survive in the coming century and beyond. Are genetically modified corals next? In Hawaii this summer, as corals engage […]
The Perfectly Nasty Ocean Storm
The Perfectly Nasty Ocean Storm The oceans of the world are currently experiencing a “perfect storm” that is nasty, real nasty with too much warming, too much acidification, too much CO2, too much fishing, too many chemicals, too much Ag runoff, too much radiation (Fukushima), and too little ice (Arctic Ocean) bringing on too much […]
The Cimmerian Hypothesis, Part Two: A Landscape of Hallucinations
The Cimmerian Hypothesis, Part Two: A Landscape of Hallucinations Last week’s post covered a great deal of ground—not surprising, really, for an essay that started from a quotation from a Weird Talesstory about Conan the Barbarian—and it may be useful to recap the core argument here. Civilizations—meaning here human societies that concentrate power, wealth, and population […]
1930s Dust Bowl Drought – and Current California Drought – Caused By Warm Ocean Anomalies
1930s Dust Bowl Drought – and Current California Drought – Caused By Warm Ocean Anomalies A scientific paper published last month in the journal Climate Dynamics by a scientist from NOAA’s National Climatic Data Center and three universities found that the 1930s drought was exacerbated by an anomalous warm spots in the ocean: Unusually hot summer […]
A 1,000 Mile Stretch Of The Pacific Ocean Has Heated Up Several Degrees And Scientists Don’t Know Why
A 1,000 Mile Stretch Of The Pacific Ocean Has Heated Up Several Degrees And Scientists Don’t Know Why According to two University of Washington scientific research papers that were recently released, a 1,000 mile stretch of the Pacific Ocean has warmed up by several degrees, and nobody seems to know why this is happening. This […]
