Doom Today: Nearly All Marine Species Will Soon Be In Danger Of Extinction From ‘Climate Change’

We can solve this by you buying an EV, new home appliances, and weatherizing your home you know

Nearly all marine species threatened by climate change: Study

On the current trajectory of global greenhouse gas emissions, nearly all marine species will be at high or critical risk of extinction in less than 80 years, according to a study published Monday by Nature Climate Change.

The study, which was conducted by an international team of researchers, looked at the effects of rising air and water temperatures due to the burning of fossil fuels on the marine animals, plants, protozoans and bacteria found in the upper 100 meters of the world’s oceans. In that depth, the study noted, “climate-driven temperature changes are the most severe.”

If the world was to continue on its current rate of greenhouse gas emissions, “almost 90% of ~25,000 species are at high or critical risk of extinction,” the study concluded.

The thing is, there’s no way to prove or disprove this bit of cult doomsaying for 80 years, not that anyone in the Credentialed Media would demand proof. The time frame is too far out. And that’s the way they want it

Mitigating the effects of climate change “reduces the risk for virtually all species,” the study found. The findings come as the U.S. enacts the Inflation Reduction Act, the first major piece of legislation designed to curb greenhouse gas emissions and speed the transition to renewable sources of energy.

See? Biden inflation reduction bill that doesn’t reduce inflation can help save all the species in the ocean! If you cooperate and spend gobs of money you don’t have.

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13 Responses to “Doom Today: Nearly All Marine Species Will Soon Be In Danger Of Extinction From ‘Climate Change’”

  1. alanstorm says:

    Yep – they’ve survived much hotter and much colder eras, but THIS TIME…

  2. Elwood P. Dowd says:

    from the article in Nature Climate Change:

    We develop a unified and spatially explicit index to comprehensively evaluate the climate risks to marine life. Under high emissions (SSP5-8.5), almost 90% of ~25,000 species are at high or critical risk, with species at risk across 85% of their native distributions. One tenth of the ocean contains ecosystems where the aggregated climate risk, endemism and extinction threat of their constituent species are high. Climate change poses the greatest risk for exploited species in low-income countries with a high dependence on fisheries. Mitigating emissions (SSP1-2.6) reduces the risk for virtually all species (98.2%), enhances ecosystem stability and disproportionately benefits food-insecure populations in low-income countries.</blockquote

    The scientists predict how the continued increase in temperature will affect marine flora and fauna and that impact on our species. Teach points out we can't prove what will happen in 80 years. We can't PROVE what will happen tomorrow, we can only speculate based on our knowledge. Perhaps the gods will repeal the law of gravity and we'll all float into space. Highly improbable and I predict it won't happen.

    • James Lewis says:

      Dear Elwood:

      Another study…well, well, what do we know about studies…

      “The most important thing to remember about climate models which are used to project future global warming is that they were “tuned” with the assumption I started this article with: that the climate system is in a natural state of energy balance, and that there is no long-term climate change unless humans cause it.

      This is an arbitrary and illogical assumption. The climate system is an example of a “nonlinear dynamical system”, which means it can change all by itself. For example, slow changes in the rate of vertical overturning of the world’s oceans can cause global warming (or global cooling) with no “external forcing” of the climate system whatsoever.

      Instead, the climate models are “tuned” to not produce natural climate change. If a 100-year run of the model produces change, the model is adjusted to removed the “drift”. ”

      https://www.drroyspencer.com/global-warming-101/

      • Elwood P. Dowd says:

        Mr Lewis,

        Yet, in the past century the Earth has warmed over 1C. No models involved. Are you denying that the Earth is warming?

        Dr Spencer asserts that the Earth can warm naturally for unknown reasons – clouds?, cosmic rays? etc. Then he mentions overturning oceans which don’t add any new heat to the system!!

        Dr Spencer now admits, like a good scientist, that the evidence supports that the current bout of global warming is mostly caused by human activities (just as the models predict, BTW).

        Can you, or Dr Spencer for that matter, think of a physicochemical reason (other than magic) that the Earth should stop warming?

        • drowningpuppies says:

          Rimjob: Dr Spencer now admits, like a good scientist, that the evidence supports that the current bout of global warming is mostly caused by human activities (just as the models predict, BTW).

          Um no. You made that up.
          Unsurprisingly.

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  3. Elwood P. Dowd says:

    BTW, Teach’s headline “Nearly All Marine Species Will Soon Be In Danger Of Extinction From ‘Climate Change’” is inaccurate in that the article was only referring to the top 100 meters of ocean, especially along coastlines.

  4. Madam DeFarge says:

    Yep, the murder of thousands of eagles a year by wind farms is outrageous.

    • The Liberal but not libertarian Elwood P. Dowd says:

      Like humans, eagles will have to adjust to climate change!

  5. Professor Hale says:

    Bunch of science deniers. It’s like they have never heard of evolution.

    • Elwood P. Dowd says:

      Viruses and bacteria can evolve over short periods of time, e.g., antibody resistance in bacteria and receptor affinity in viruses. Other phyla take longer!

      Anyway, like humans, all other flora and fauna will just have to adjust or perish!

  6. Jl says:

    Another “what could happen”. Why not look at what really has happened ?
    No CO2-ocean heat content correlation over 99% of the last 10,000 years. https://notrickszone.com/2016/11/03/scientific-studies-reveal-no-correlation-between-co2-and-ocean-heat-content-variations-for-99-975-of-the-last-10000-years/

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