This is only happening because of man induced climate change and the raping/polluting of our oceans.
For those of you who don't believe that our actions have no ill effects on our oceans, your probably the same people who believe in crop circles.I guess the ALIENS did it.
Don't forget what happen to cod stocks off the coast of NFLD.And what ever is left of wild atlantic salmon now contain sea lice brought on by fish from fish farms which are fed pellets.

Thats why NFLD is now based so much on a oil fed economy.How stupid is that.
I guess this is what happens when you lack morals and brains.

Kipp Alpert.
Sustainability should be our next generations mantra. Unlike the dying cult of Denialism ,Nihilism, and "I can do what I want" selfishness. Americans should learn not to need their quick fix of consumerism, and sustain what they have for the future of all Americans. Everyone wants to be first, best, and biggest, and this mentality will kill our country. Like the plankton that are being outnumbered, or becoming extinct from the warming climate, indecision, and lack of innovation is making America weak. GM has a plant in Canada because they have free health care. The worst President in the History of America, George Bush wants Mexico and Canada to be like the European union. Well not in my lifetime. Industrialists have used us all like pawns, and I don't like that feeling,
one bit. If we are a free country then we should respect it, not rape it for our greed!
KIPP

More Global Warming News:

Giant Crack seen in Northern Greenland Glacier.

Used to be just the south of Greenland, now it's as far north as you can go in Greenland.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26337374/

http://www.topix.com/world/greenland/2008/08/at-top-of-greenland-crack-in-ice-worries-osu-researcher#inlinePostAnchor

No surprise. At the same time conditions are improving off the Pacific Northwest coast.

If man is to blame, overfishing is likely to blame. However fish populations are notorious in their natural variability. Ask any fisherman.

Andrew: Did you read the article or just skim the headline? If you had read it you would have noticed the following:"University of Colorado professor Konrad Steffen, who returned from Greenland Wednesday and has studied the Petermann glacier in the past, said that what Box saw is not too different from what he saw in the 1990s: 'The crack is not alarming ... I would say it is normal.'"

If the crack is "not too different" than it was a decade ago, why is it alarming now?

Kipp:

Please do some basic research before posting completely false statements like: "GM has a plant in Canada because they have free health care."

Reply: Also, health car in Canada is not free. You pay for it through taxes.

GM has been building cars in Canada for about a century. Which I believe pre-dates their current healthcare system.

http://www.gm.ca/inm/gmcanada/english/about/OverviewHist/hist_gm_canada.html

This link was found in seconds with a Google search string of "history GM Canada"

BOONs:
The General Motors Corporation confirmed today that it would spend $1.4 billion to renovate its Oshawa, Ontario, assembly plants for production of new lines of midsize cars and pickup trucks.
The expenditure will come to about $2 billion in Canadian currency, making it the largest one-time manufacturing investment in that country's history. The Canadian dollar is currently worth about 70 cents in United States currency. The announcement had been expected. In a news conference about all the massive cutbacks GM had made in America, but none in Canada.Why, because of their health care system. Isn't it good to know that we are protecting our jobs here at home.
from a N.Y.Times article KIPP

Caleb: Ask any scientist? They are worried about the plankton's adaptability to warmer water, and they don't want this place fished to extinction.
KIPP

kipp-gb worst president in history of us-sorry but my vote goes to jimmy carter-he was the beginning of the end of nuclear power which by now would have eliminated you fill in the blank tons of co2 created by our need to burn fossil fuels for energy needed for things besides transportation-could you imagine how much oil we would need if all we needed it for was to power vehicles-also his policies are a big part of the reason for todays middle eastern trouble-what if iran was still our ally-there would be no iraq war and we wouldnt be there to protect our oil interest

the planet earth is constantly seeking balance-how do you know 386ppm of co2 is not natures balance for the # of plants and animals on the planet today-by the way you stated 1.6 bil/tons in the past and 6bil/tons today in aprevious co2
post so why arent we at 900 ppm today

Boondocks, what Kipp was likely trying to express is the fact that GM must compete against foreign competitors who do not have to fund their employee's healthcare costs. GM's healthcare benefits add between 1000 and 1500 to the cost of each vehicle they sell. Their competitors do not have to add this premium.

http://www.usatoday.com/money/autos/2005-06-22-gm-healthcare-usat_x.htm

Although, what either your comment or Kipp's have to do with global warming is anybody's guess; unless its that we can soon expect HUMMERS to go extinct :)

Sorry Kipp, Blaming the US seems to be the in thing with libs but the fact is this is the best country in the world or has ever exsisted on this planet.We have the right to excess if we choose, it is still a FREE country Kipper.The guys who fish the Bering know they cannot over fish, they are not stupid.Anything you libs comeup with to solve our so called problems fails or would be devistating to our economy.This is a weather blog, go get on a political one.

While overfishing might be part of the problem, in this case it is due to the recent PDO phase shift; just now Bering Sea fishing is worse and off the Pacific Nothwest coast it is better; before the shift it was the other way around.

Rick: Read what I just said to Caleb, then to Boon, so you can read where my loyalty is. Without environmental protection, a show called The Deadliest Catch would be called No Catch. You think if these men could make more money, even by putting our Crab and their livelyhood at risk, they could stop themselves. We have laws, restrictions, and quota's for a reason. Look what GB did when he deregulated banking. How's your recession today.
KIPP

Kipp,

Cores from the sediment on the sea bed show what sort of plankton lived in the waters above. There have been some great changes in the types of plankton in northern waters, from times before we can blame mankind for the changes.

My study of Vikings led me to a study of cores north of Iceland. During the MWP a species of plankton lived in those waters which now lives far to the south. This suggests that the waters north of Iceland were warmer in the MWP, when Vikings were sailing about in open boats, than they are now. (And this in turn casts doubt on Mann's "hockey stick" graph.)

You are quite correct to point out the importance of plankton to fish populations. However you need to concede that there is such a thing as natural variations, and not be so quick to pounce on mankind for every crash in fish population.

This is not to say we should not take care about over-fishing. However we should not expect that trading in big cars for scooters will change fish populations.

GSN:
My apollogies for straying. I'd say more, but I do not wish to stray again.

Rick,

I love this country too, but it insults my intelligence and our collective right to free speech when you so obviously and robotically parrot a talking point from Sean Hannity in your response to Kipp, particularly when you have the temerity to say in the the very next sentence that "this is a weather blog, go get on a political one." As long as you want to be political, I might point out that your "response" to Kipp does not address his point, it merely resorts to a personal attack on his patriotism.

GSN,

How much does UAW add to the cost of vehicles, hmm?

Loub: Where's your brother Leopold. Carbon sinks are not natures way of ocean acidification. The rest goes back into the troposphere causing Global Warming.Do the math. Why isn't the temperatures reflected in natural forcings. As a real American, I am free to believe what I want. There is no special interest or renegade Corporation making up denier talking points for me. We need regulations although we need nuclear power now. Did you vote for Carter. That's to bad. Tell me why the CO2 isn't reflected in the normal number CO2 used to be. Tell me why Venus with an atmosphere of CO2, is much hotter then it should be, considering it's distance from the Sun.
KIPP

GSN:I have a right to address those critics about my patriotism. Read more then one of my posts since you are now delving into Politics. It's easy to be distracted from the AGW debate as Deniers wll use any tactic, at any time, to throw you off your mission or purpose. Then they have no science of their own. Pathetic isn't it.
KIPP

Kipp:

I responded to your GM Canada response and it cite of a 1986 article in the open forum.

Caleb: It is good to know that plankton will adapt to climate. Yes It was warmer too. Your right. The hockey stick graph doesn't explain what is going on today. There is however a term which refers to rapid climate change and this is different then the MWP. It is called global warming, which in only 150 years, has changed the Holocene into the anthropocene, and almost doubling of carbon dioxide in the world. Now if you want to debate this we can. But global warming is caused by GHGs in our atmosphere which was proved by two things. One is how CO2 reacts to heat, and how it coalesces with other GHG,s and water vapour, the perfect absorber. If we needed CO2 to have a planet then how come too much CO2 doesn't make it warmer. Heat pushes, with difficulty into the stratosphere, but is easily carried back to our earth with water vapor and humidity and earth's climate.
KIPP

Sorry for being off target, but a couple fun facts:

In July, Canada's unemployment rate was 6.1%, the US 5.7%, despite our economic slowdown. The unemployment rate started to go up in the US after the DEM's got control of Congress....

Toyota is going to convert production previously dedicated to trucks/SUV's to Prius's, here in the States. I guess when everything that goes wrong in this country is GWB fault, then he gets credit for this, right?

http://www.autobloggreen.com/2008/07/10/breaking-toyota-to-build-new-prius-in-mississippi-in-2010-truc/

Rich,

I am sorry, I cannot find anywhere that gives me the right to excess, or the right to whatever I want. Do I have the right to take all your possessions then?

You want to talk about right to excess? There is no right to excess, there is no right to overfish. Overfishing is a terrible thing.

People are talking about GM plants in Canada and Toyota plants in Mississippi.

I forget, which one is supposed to be the Domestic brand?