Climate Change in NJ

[AvantHiatus]

Climate Change, Algae Blooms, Anoxic Waters and Dead Dolphins: What’s Killing East Coast Dolphins? Morbillivirus? Or Something More Ominous?

http://robertscribbler.wordpress.com/2013/08/21/climate-change-algae-blooms-anoxic-waters-and-dead-dolphins-whats-killing-east-coast-dolphins-morbillivirus-or-something-more-ominous/

 

 

Why Context is So Important to Understanding Climate Change

In understanding the damage resulting from human caused climate change, context is everything. Because climate change is so large, we have to look at the big picture in order to understand it. All too often, we look at a long, thin, bushy, tufted thing, or a padded stump-like thing, or a spear-like protrusion of ivory and see only strange, isolated, and seeming in-congruent features. But when drawing back, what we find is an elephant.

 

 

 

The Atlantic Ocean Off the East Coast Was the Warmest Ever Recorded in 2012

http://www.thewire.com/national/2013/04/atlantic-ocean-east-coast-was-warmest-ever-recorded-2012/64737/

 

The Poster Child For Global Warming Is Right Here In The US

http://www.businessinsider.com/gulf-of-maine-the-poster-child-for-global-warming-2014-9

 

 

It's already starting to happen. The culprit is the warming seas — and in particular the Gulf of Maine, whose waters are heating up faster than 99 percent of the world's oceans, scientists say.

Long-established species of commercial fish, like cod, herring and northern shrimp, are departing for colder waters. Black sea bass, blue crabs and new species of squid — all highly unusual for the Gulf — are turning up in fishermen's nets.

The Gulf of Maine's warming reflects broader trends around the North Atlantic. But the statistic — accepted by scientists at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration — underscores particular fears about the Gulf's unique ecosystem and the lucrative fishing industries it supports for three U.S. states and two Canadian provinces.

"These changes are very real, and we're seeing them happen quickly," said Malin Pinsky, a biology professor at New Jersey's Rutgers University who studies ocean temperature change and was not involved in the research that resulted in the 99 percent statistic.

It is a rallying point for environmental activists, who see the response to the temperature rise and its impact on fisheries as a touchstone for the global debate about climate change.

"The warming is already here," said Jeff Young, a spokesman for Pew Charitable Trust's oceans project, which has campaigned in favor of restrictions on fishing for herring, another species leaving for colder water. "And we have to deal with it."

Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/gulf-of-maine-the-poster-child-for-global-warming-2014-9#ixzz3CO4wmkrW 

Reuters data-driven series on sea level rise to date -- not just projected -- is rolling out today. You can't really argue with the data here

[nflwxman]

Thanks for this link.   It's nice to see my alma mater and home state leading some solid research into east coast bio issues.

[ben4vols]

Geez.  Cherry pick a very small area and apply it wholesale.  Ridiculous.  Nothing unusual is happening in the Gulf of Maine.  Just more alarmism from the usual crowd.

 

Credit to Bob Tisdale for the graph.

 

 

[nflwxman]

Geez.  Cherry pick a very small area and apply it wholesale.  Ridiculous.  Nothing unusual is happening in the Gulf of Maine.  Just more alarmism from the usual crowd.

 

Credit to Bob Tisdale for the graph.

 

 

How much of this can be determined by SSTs?  OHC in the area has actually been shooting up pretty quickly.

 

http://oceans.pmel.noaa.gov/uohca-plots.html

[ORH_wxman]

Making attributions on a regional scale is pretty baffling when we still lack the understanding on how some of the internal natural variability works.

 

We're having a hard enough time in larger regional areas like the Arctic, Antarctic, the east Pacific and chunks of the Atlantic...nevermind a small region like the Gulf of Maine. There's a good chance that the SSTs there will crash at some point in the next few years and then the whole arcticle will look pretty silly.

[downeastnc]

Making attributions on a regional scale is pretty baffling when we still lack the understanding on how some of the internal natural variability works.

 

We're having a hard enough time in larger regional areas like the Arctic, Antarctic, the east Pacific and chunks of the Atlantic...nevermind a small region like the Gulf of Maine. There's a good chance that the SSTs there will crash at some point in the next few years and then the whole arcticle will look pretty silly.

 

The fish kills have more to with weather and winds than anything else in most cases......the guy in the video sounds like one of these Chemtrail types to me lol.....

 

The heat on the east coast the last week plus sudden influxes of water ( was there a lot of heavy rain recently in the areas that saw fish kills) etc have a lot of do with these kills. We see them all the time in NC and usually its after a warm spell or a lot of rain that flushes low oxygenated water out of streams and creeks into the main rivers where they form dead zones till they mix out. Also strong enough winds, or a cold snap which causes the surface water to cool and sink, will cause the water to "flip over" allowing the water at the bottom which is low oxygen to mix out to the top.  

 

Also long warm spells can cause algae blooms and bacteria growth, some of which can be influenced by man for instance we have problems here with hog farm waste getting into the rivers. the guy in the video above comes off as a crackpot.....

[AvantHiatus]

That SST chart needs to be updated for 2014, you are cherrypicking yourself. You know how these things work, it's like a margin call on the stock market. There will be cool and warm years, the long-term trend is upward.

 

Yes, OHC is more important here, especially in determining the temperatures of layers closer to the seafloor.

 

[Absolute Humidity]

Big egg harbor and surrounding waters have seen a ridiculous increase in jellies over the past ten years, making the area unfishable and unswimmable. The problem is a bit deeper than low O2 from stagnate run off waters.