I watched the whole season. They had record catches for both King Crab and Opillio Crab.They had problems with the boats icing over and the sea freezing over.The temps were down to -40 degrees.I am sure those guys are heading some where warm after this season!

I remember during this season of Deadliest Catch (2008 winter) the ice pack moving 30 miles in 24 hours. That was impressive. I imagine all those fish and plankton will evolve as the climate continues to change (just like they've done for millions/billions of years).

What global warming? Have you read anything besides left leaning propaganda lately - guess you are still listening to Owl Gore?

Did you see this?

http://scienceandpublicpolicy.org/images/stories/papers/originals/mclean/agwfallacies.pdf

There has been no warming since 1998 according to multiple sources.

Let me know if you need some more pieces to read!

Thanks,

Scott Mc

man those crab catching dudes are some tough characters...ms ferhlinger's are you going to tag along on one of those boats or interview those guys about what they think about climate change?...i would be curious what they think about the new TAX buzzword called climate change...my guess their answer to the sponsors of a co2 tax that will drive up the cost of the fisherman's diesel would be "just exactly how big an ole boy are these politicians?"...have a nice day, bros!!!

Jason Blanchard,

You wrote "I imagine all those fish and plankton will evolve as the climate continues to change just like they've done for millions/billions of years"

That doesn't even make any sence.Evolution occurs over thousands and thousands of years.Dramatic changes in the Bering Sea climate have occured in the last few decades.How do you expect sea life to adapt that quickly.Oh and don't forget oil spills,bottom trawling and acidification of ocean waters.How will sea life adapt to all this?

Anchorage is having their coldest summer on record. Must be due to global warming around the Bering Strait.

When will the (blanks) who blog here wake up to the fact that the planet is not in peril? Brett, how much does accuweather charge wecansolveit.org to advertise? Whatever it is, it's not enough.

Anyone watch Barbara Boxer speaking to Dr. Roy Spencer on C-SPAN? How much money does she get from special interest groups?

Oh, as far as the deadliest catch. They had another great season. Sound the alarm, the ecosystem is doomed unless we act now!

Get a life alarmists.

Sea-life can move/respond very quickly. Fish will swim north or south, crabs will walk. Zoo and phyto plankton have very short lives and will just bloom in an area with appropriate conditions of temperature/light/nutrients.

If I assume that the climate change question entailed an assumed warming, then even though the interviewee sounded rather concerned, I didn't hear anything of concern. I have to ask, "why is warming bad?".

I would be much more concerned about the next 20-30 years of negative phase PDO cooling things off and moving the Bering Sea ice line/prevalence further south. Never mind that a relative of mine and his girlfriend in the Alaska crab business (Dutch Harbor) should be concerned about the increased ice area impact on their fishing, or the rest of us and the Japanese who consume so much of their catch.

OK, she mentioned that it's changing..

OK, THAT'S big news? Just what has not changed on a decadal cycle on the planet?

Further, how does she know that it's VERY sensitive to changes in the climate. This seems like a very doctorial analysis of a situation that bears little resemblence to reality.

Anyone care to remember the "doctorial" analyses put forth on the massive harm that the Alaskan Pipeline would do to the caribou? Let alone the planet? Never mind that the numbers increased.

But I know, let's all base regulation upon this idea because, well, NOAA is the best mind in the country on stuff like this, RIGHT? Aren't they the same ones who brought us all of those fantastically accurate short term models?

I like the insinuation that it is their job to protect us, from ourselves.

Can't wait for the next episode.

Deadliest Catch is a good show. The crabbers should thanks all of us. Since without our SUVs it might have been -50.

Wonder how a seaborne windmill would stand up to those waves.

"Evolution occurs over thousands and thousands of years."
Do you mean there are time restraints on evolution? No speeding down the evolutionary path.
Let's develope one leg this year then wait 10,000 years to develope another. Micro-evolution can occur in just a few generations.

Marco: As you have pointed out Evolution of a species and their demise means extinction like the dinosaur. If there were the same building blocks, with the same environments over millions or even billions of years, there might be a specie somewhat similar to those species lost. Unless there are some trilobites hanging around, that no one told me about. The impact on the world of the Arctic melting,and especially Greenland is daunting. Disruption of the golf stream, sea level rise, absorption from the sun's heat with no reflectivity, and the possible warming of the perma frost, and the consequent release of methane, are just a few things we look forward to. People say that we humans can't effect mother Earth. Well we just got through poking a hole in her and now that ozone is also a greenhouse gas. To think that we are not making irreversible damage to the Earth is insane, and to keep pushing for exxon-mobil,Shell Oil, or Chevron, or anyone to keep drilling means, you got to be some kind of nut. What scientists don't know is when the tipping point will come, not if the tipping point is real. The last dealiest catch episode I saw was the Johanson brothers having to go to the edge of the Bering sea as north as possible, to catch their crab.
The crabs will outlive mankind, because we have our special little interests. No we can't stop using gas tomorrow,but we better conserve now, as if we were coming to the apocalypse.
KIPP

Marco,
Dramatic changes has happened in sequences of ten years, ten years for millions/billions years, I believe thats what J.B was telling. And a J.B is never wrong!

Reply: Josh, I cannot post your recent "press conference". You have to use a made up name of the questioner or get permission from that particular person first since you are using his name (one of our commentators) and making up questions attributed to him.

As usual, it's all very incestuous. ScienceandpublicpolicyDOTorg is a website devoted to disseminating and spreading doubt about the science supporting climate change, and involves the usual parade. Very self-referential.

Please don't be misled if you don't already belong to the club.

As far as "the (blanks) who blog here", since only one of seven (at time of making this comment) had the temerity to mention issues of pollution and threats to sea life, you had to invent us in order to provide the usual nasty and baseless suggestions. [Brett, I really think you should not have let that comment go. On the other hand, it allows me to suggest that if one follows the money the truth is that it's the reverse of your suggestion.]

Most who post here seem happy to be able to stroke their opinions without much opposition. Sooner or later the rest of us all go somewhere a little more grounded in the whole of science.

Opps!!!
NASA Discovers 70% Of Global Climate Due To Pacific Ocean Oscillations - Not CO2

Wonder where we have heard that before?
Very telling....

http://strata-sphere.com/blog/index.php/archives/5693

Off Topic: Brett, On the press conferance I only took Gary B"s questions (Reply: I did not know they were his actual questions) and used them as I was in a sit down interview as in Garys comments above he had those questions for me and I was having alittle fun in a different version of responding, So Gary all I did was write your name Gary with : after and then wrote out your question that you listed above, and then I responded, granted some are shortened versions of your question but your question none the less, so I guess Brett will need your approval to continue if he is to post it, so if its alright with you can you give him the go ahead. Sorry about that Brett but I didn't think it would be as good if Billy Bob was asking them.
Gary here is an example of how I did it,

Billy BOB: Here is the question?
Josh: Here is the answer.

Nome, Alaska is next to The Bering Strait. According to the University of Alaska, temperatures in Nome have cooled by 1.1 degrees since 1977.

2008 is much below normal.
http://climate.gi.alaska.edu/Climate/SixCities/Nome/ome_hdd.jpg
http://climate.gi.alaska.edu/Climate/SixCities/Nome/ome_snowf.jpg

According to Dr. Hansen, anyone who doesn't believe that Alaska is warming should be prosecuted for "crimes against humanity."
Reply: I think he said the "Arctic" not Alaska.

Alaska is cold, and most of the rest of the country is also below normal this year.
http://www.hprcc.unl.edu/products/maps/acis/YearTDeptUS.png

This should be big news, but all we hear is the same tired drivel from the press about "global warming."

Reply: Last time I heard, global did not just mean this country.

The AO is forecast to be negative for the remainder of the Arctic melt season.
http://www.cpc.noaa.gov/products/precip/CWlink/daily_ao_index/ao.fcst.gif

2008 will come close to setting the record for the smallest Arctic melt ever recorded - i.e. the difference between March area and September area.
http://arctic.atmos.uiuc.edu/cryosphere/IMAGES/current.area.jpg

Brett: the way things are going re temps,ice, storms rainfall ect you must realize that this site will soon be obsolete (ok another year maybe). people will notice that it ain't being warming for some time now. Sorry!

Climate Change is Harming Bering Sea Mammals & Birds

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2006/03/0309_060309_bering_sea.html

Studies of Atlantic fisheries show that after valuable stocks of cod and haddock were overfished, scavengers such as snow crabs increased. That doesn't bode well for the overall fishing industry in the Aleutians.

Kipp Alpert:
Hello! Is there anyone out there that can disprove global warming? Is CO2 a greenhouse gas? Is the Anthropocene fake? Any skeptic, denier, staller or disinformationist, can't argue against the essential facts of AGW. Just rage against the machine. As Shakespeare said, "man gets on stage, then huffs and puffs then kicks his heals and dies". Is there anyone out there who is brave enough to make one comment that is real. Al Gore is brave. James Hansen is brave.
KIPP
Reply: Kipp, watch the name calling!

Coldest Alaska summer on record:

http://www.adn.com/life/story/473786.html

Kipp,

The essential fact of AGW is that a huge increase in CO2 will cause the earth to warm up maybe one degree. No one disputes this.

It is the "feedbacks" which Hansen claims will cause 6-9C additional warm up, that are in dispute. You might want to get this basic piece of information straight, rather than pretending to understand the science.

mr alpert with a p,

i'm curious, since hansen and gore are your hero's, can you tell me how you resolve that the earth is cooling when both of those dudes said the temperature would be going up?...and the earth is cooling at the same time the greenhouse gas co2 is increasing....these are REAL observations not something made up...just one simple answer would suffice...as to hansen's and gores' global warming SCAM, shakespeare did say it best.... "O, what men dare do"

WeatherWatcher:
I read your post and you sound as though you are fed up with this board. I think it is important that you stay, and more importantly go after those who would refute your common sense. We are in a time warp, back to the wild west. For every AGW advocate there are eight others that don't agree.
I put them in these categories;Skeptics who talk science period;deniers that don't want to hear a thing you might say;disinformationists, that use unproved or wacky theories to defy the truth, and the worst, stallers who would use every last bit of oil in the Earth first, and try to paint you a crazy. As you know there web sites like ice pac never dicusses just science. There is always an article about Obama and who his parents were, which is a racial observation not relevant or scientific. Since you are representing a higher purpose, scientific truth only, the more of us that stay here and put up with some abuse,the more AGWers will come. Brett is a very fair moderator and Accuweather is a growing company. There topics are good and they have no hidden agenda.I will leave you with a quote from the great American philosopher Ralph Waldo Emerson.
"Speak what you think now in hard words, and to-morrow speak what to-morrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said to-day. -- `Ah, so you shall be sure to be misunderstood.' -- Is it so bad, then, to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood". Another words what you say is more important, then what might fall on deaf ears. Keep the faith, and learn how to fight, no matter how other people might misrepresent what you have said. Reality always wins in the end.
good luck, KIPP

This could be the end of GISSTEMP NASA
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/main.jhtml?xml=/opinion/2008/07/27/do2708.xml

Kipp,

If you look back through the archives you will note that you have been offered a great deal of data by kind and patient people. At the very least it ought raise a few doubts in your mind. If it doesn't, perhaps your thinking has become a bit ossified.

To return to the topic of fish:

Over-fishing can cause problems without needing to bring up the topic of climate change or global warming. When the old Soviet Union sent factory ships to the coast of New England they so depleted the codfish stocks, and so churned up the eco-system of the bottom by dragging, that it has been tremendously difficult to get the codfish populations back up.

One problem I heard about while working on the coast of Maine was that some little jelly-fish critter stepped in, and took over the place baby codfish had once occupied in the food chain. This jelly-critter wasn't going to just step aside and let baby codfish come back.

Until scientists knew about the jelly-critter they made predictions about how quickly the codfish populations would rebound, after the Russians were booted out, and the predictions were wrong. Then they made predictions about how slowly the codfish populations would rebound, due to the jelly-critters, and now these are turning out wrong.

It turns out that the eco-system of the Atlantic is responding to all sorts of stuff, and we