Oh the fish manity!

We must stop this AGW immediately to save fish hearing! How soon before the Goreacle starts showing us videos of coral fish with hearing aids? I mean he does have to replace his vids of the polar bears since their habitat and populations aren't as affected as apparently first thought.

Anybody read the article? The REAL issue is that young fish, YES FISH KIDS, are most likely to be affected.

Is that supposed to make us think this is a more serious problem? I mean that is what is done with anything in society. Sure it's an issue BUT just think of the CHILDREN.

What a crock this issue has become. I would be embarassed if I bought into the hype of this entirely hypothetical "problem".

This is the first time an opening paragraph on this blog made me laugh out loud.

Thanks.

Okay, where's the beef? I want to know how much higher they heated the water and how much more acidic it was compared to the natural ocean water in that are. This smells like giving the rats ten times an amount of a substance that a fully grown human would encounter their entire life and saying see?...it prove XXX causes cancer!
Next...

OK, this is getting ridiculous. Acidic oceans, deaf fish, polar bears with disappearing smiles...

Why dont we just exterminate ourselves, soon? This way the world and its humanless inhabitants could go on living forever...until the sun swallows the earth. Wait, can we stop THAT from happening?

Can Accuweather please reduce posting doomsday articles, please? I am tired of the relentless fear-mongering, which is made possible thanks to the billions of dollars spent to FUEL this AGW crap. What about the benefits to global warming? ARE THERE NONE? Can we see equal postings? Is this not possible?

How about a feel good story. You know, a nice global warming piece that is not catastrophic, but makes you feel nice and WARM inside and THANKFUL that we are not heading back into another LIA.

And if that is not possible, how about posting stories like this, compliments of global cooling. Its catastrophic...perfect for a blog!

Are you worried about polar bears? What about the poor deer?

"This winter has been hard on our deer in central and southern New Hampshire," said Fish and Game deer biologist Kent Gustafson. "We're expecting mortality to be dramatically higher than average in these areas."

http://www.wildlife.state.nh.us/Newsroom/News_2003/News_2003_Q1/Deer_proposal_032103.htm

I doubt this story could be told without some knucklehead reporter mentioning global warming or blaming humans for all the cold related deer deaths.

Yes Carbonic acid levels will return to normal with my "TUNNELS" and so will the fishes hearing. Other effects of carbonic acid in our oceans effect the shell of small shrimp and they die. The "Tunnels" also solve this problem.Any of you scientist want to computer model them?

Eight conditional terms in one article! Could, might, likely, seems, etc. This sounds like premature publication to get on the AGW bandwagon. If these fish travel in schools, individual 'disabilities' would not necessarily be a disadvantage, if they don't, then the ones with defective hearing will be quickly removed from the gene pool. Besides, there is no mention of temperatures or acidity to indicate these are, in fact, factors. I suspect this study would not make it in a high school science fair.

This interesting study is not yet published, which means it is not yet peer-reviewed. However, simply by mentioning Global Warming, it manages to get attention.

If funding is provided, I will gladly join a study of fish in the Great Reefs of Australia. It sounds more romantic than my current study of snow, mud and manure in a barn in New Hampshire.

However two things cross my mind. First, the cool La Nina tends to pile warm water up in the western Pacific, against Australia. In other words, it is actually cooling that is causing the warmth which causes the fish to mutate. The warmth by Australia is merely a "local effect."

Second, Mother Nature often has her reasons for predictable mutations of this sort. Fish have to survive swings in climate such as the swing from the MWP to the Little Ice Age. This fish has obviously survived such swings. Perhaps there is some advantage fish have, when they have Otolith asymmetry, which lets them survive periods of extended La Ninas.

Studies such as this are not only interesting in their own right; they also increase our understanding of whether a change in fish populations is a natural cycle or due to over-fishing. That is reason enough to fund this fellow, but he likely would be ignored. It is only through mentioning "warming" (even if the warming is due to cooling,) that he gets heard on the far side of the planet, here in New Hampshire.

For most of the history of life in the oceans, temperatures and CO2 levels were much higher than they are now.

Amazing that anything survived without climate hypochondriacs watching over them.

The fish can hear fine. It is the alarmists who are having difficulty hearing.

Some records, says David Phillips, are never meant to be broken. Until this winter, Environment Canada's senior climatologist always thought Ottawa's record snowfall from the winter of 1970-71 would be one of them.

"It was like a totally different climate," says Mr. Phillips of the 444.6 centimetres of snow that smothered the nation's capital that year -- nearly 100 more than the runner-up year, 1992-93.

"It's one of those things in meteorology that we call outliers," he says. "It's going to happen once in a thousand years."
But after the weekend storm that dumped 52 centimetres on winter-weary Ottawans, Mr. Phillips believes that seemingly unassailable record will fall.

http://www.canada.com/ottawacitizen/story.html?id=fc227aa1-d404-4cb8-92ff-d50600fe48e9&k=53521

This blogger "Lucia"
whom I believe was or is an AGW advocate has just released some very interesting temp analysis from 2001 using NOAA, RSS, UAH to now an analysis which appears to have been double checked by experts in the field the amazing result = -0.9c per century trend
http://rankexploits.com/musings/2008/ipcc-projections-overpredict-recent-warming/#comments
so it appears officially that the world is now on a cooling trend

By the way it may be time soon for a Global Cooling Center Blog at accuweather

The media snowjob on global warming

Just how pervasive the bias at most news outlets is in favour of climate alarmism -- and how little interest most outlets have in reporting any research that diverges from the alarmist orthodoxy -- can be seen in a Washington Post story on the Nongovernmental International Panel on Climate Change (NIPCC), announced last week in New York.

http://www.nationalpost.com/most_popular/story.html?id=364265

COPENHAGEN, Denmark - The head of the U.N. panel on climate change compared him to Hitler. Another leading scientist called him a parasite. A third described his latest book as a "stealth attack" on mankind.

The list of allegations against Bjoern Lomborg, one of the world's leading climate change skeptics, almost reads like an indictment for war crimes.

http://www.usatoday.com/weather/climate/2007-12-14-climate-change-skeptics_N.htm

Before people tease this scientist for his study too much, I'd like to point out a lot of mystery and wonder surrounds population explosions and population crashes in our oceans. It's worth study.

Around 1967 I witnessed a population explosion of clams on Bassett's Island in Buzzard's Bay. Earlier it took a lazy, boyhood afternoon to gather a bucket of clams, but abruptly the beach was so packed with clams one could gather a bucket with three or four scoops of a clam rake. Word leaked out, the beach soon was wall-to-wall clammers, and it soon reverted back to its earlier state.

Up until 1976 bluefish were uncommon in the cold waters north of Cape Cod, but then they suddenly appeared enmass on the coast of Maine. I recall the old-timers did not state, "The bluefish have come north due to Global Warming." Rather they stated, "The Big Blues are back," which suggested they had seen the phenomenum before.

In the late 1960's the politicians of Peru and Chile were baffled by wild swings of anchovie and sardine populations, blamed over-fishing, and caused a world-wide storm of protest when they were first nations to extend the three-mile-limit out to 200 miles. If they had only bothered ask the fishermen they would have learned the wild swings in population were due to El Nino's and La Nina's, but such events were generally not known about, in those days.

One of the most fascinating things about the fisheries of Chile and Peru is that each time fishing improves due to a La Nina, it is not known whether the population that explodes will be the anchovie population or the sardine population. The fish seem to take turns.

The scientists who first studied El Nino's and La Nina's did not go to the politicians of Peru and Chile for more than passports. Rather it was the fishermen who taught them the most.

It is the politicians who have made the study of Climate Change (and even the hearing of fish) such a joke. Don't blame the scientists.

Save The Children!
hahahahahahahahahah roflmao!

sheesh!

VG:

Good job finding that. I wonder how much coverage the MSM will give this potential development. NOT!

Betcha EXXON is involved in those numbers somehow. So clearly, they should be ignored since they are tainted by the presence of fossilized carbon.

LOL.

Caleb,

More great comments...thank you.

BTW, I love fishing for Blues off the Isles of Shoals. They put up quite a fight for their size. What a tough job commercial fisherman have. As a former USCG-MFLEO, I have MUCH respect for them.

Ready for more snow this weekend?

Rich,

Nope, I'm not ready for more snow, but the snow will come whether I'm ready or not. This time of year snow becomes a four-letter-word, though the old-timers assure me a hard winter is good, for it, "drives the flatlanders south."

I love fishing for Blues as well. They baffle the scientists who study them, as well as the bureaucrats who try to control populations with quotas. Their population seems to have a ten-year-cycle, and also, "Cycles of low and high abundance of bluefish follow a pattern that seems to be the converse of striped bass, another popular target of recreational fishermen." It is odd how one day in late August the sea is full of Blues, and the next they are abruptly and completely gone.

I've heard a theory which states they may migrate all the way to South Africa. I'd like to fish for them there, for some weigh 40 pounds!

As the AMO turns colder, Bluefish may well vanish from the waters north of Cape Cod. (We'll then have to head off to South Africa, I suppose.) However there is some indication the colder cycle of the AMO will bring back the codfish population, which will be a huge relief for Yankee fishermen.

Caleb, I had to point this out cause it gave me a chuckle!

"This time of year snow becomes a four-letter-word"

What time of year is snow not a 4 letter word :)