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THE Oceans & Seas Thread pt 3

Re: THE Oceans & Seas Thread pt 3

Unread postby onlooker » Fri 10 Mar 2017, 22:25:25

dohboi wrote:Yeah...


This is not good

Dohboi, am I wrong about this but we are NOT supposed to be witnessing so much change so fast. Geological time periods and such
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Re: THE Oceans & Seas Thread pt 3

Unread postby Serial_Worrier » Sat 11 Mar 2017, 00:32:22

Cid_Yama wrote:Actually ... the article said it was due to he heating of the oceans. 2% in 50 years is huge.

Sad some of you don't get it. The biosphere is dying. Rapidly.

Yes, things like tardigrades and thermal vent creatures will thrive under the new conditions. But the rest of the biosphere will collapse.

You will get it, inevitably. Reality is a harsh mistress.


Yet even the Democrats have nothing to say about it. All they care about is nonsense like womens march and black lives matter while the biosphere is literally DYING.
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Re: THE Oceans & Seas Thread pt 3

Unread postby Cid_Yama » Sat 11 Mar 2017, 02:01:14

Most people haven't a clue. If they watch the news it's usually local. Most just look for entertainment on the TV and internet.

It seems to be a combination of limited education, limited intelligence, and faith that the world will go on as it always has. They don't want to hear otherwise.

Not like there is anything that can be done. Far too late for that.

As far as I'm concerned, I would rather they continue to go to work and pay their bills right up to the end. No need to hurry the collapse.

If there was something that could be done, I would think otherwise. But in this situation, Ignorance is Bliss. Let them go on believing as they do.

It would be cruel now to enlighten them to a hopeless situation. Let them have their dreams.
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Re: THE Oceans & Seas Thread pt 3

Unread postby Ibon » Sat 11 Mar 2017, 07:21:55

Cid_Yama wrote:Not like there is anything that can be done. Far too late for that.

As far as I'm concerned, I would rather they continue to go to work and pay their bills right up to the end. No need to hurry the collapse.

If there was something that could be done, I would think otherwise. But in this situation, Ignorance is Bliss. Let them go on believing as they do.

It would be cruel now to enlighten them to a hopeless situation. Let them have their dreams.


I tend to agree with this. Why remind Cog of his grandchildren :)

I also see this as a way of surrendering over to the natural consequences that will come our way since we all know deep inside that we have failed to mitigate. The imbalances and calamities coming our way is how we will pay tribute once again to mother nature, how we will honor once again forces beyond our ability to control. It's a bit twisted but this is how we will eventually re acquaint ourselves with humility.

Somewhere on the other side the question remains if the lessons learned will be embedded culturally? This question is where I stay tethered to a sense of hope for our species, that this is all a drama being played out to somehow embed wisdom collectively in how we treat our mother earth.

I look around my little patch of forest here and everything seems so wild and untouched, some frog species have disappeared in the past 10 years, some lowland bird species have wandered up and are now nesting here, otherwise the ecology here is intact and thriving. It is very hard to embrace the instabilities we read about concerning our climate and imagine major changes here.

Last week we had two guests, a couple who are RN nurses and they have worked summers in the Pribilof islands in Alaska during the past 20 years. The stories they tell are truly alarming on how the lives of the natives have been displaced due to climate change, the dramatic changes in sea ice, the impact this has had on coastal communities. Nothing comparable to this is happening here or in most places still.
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Re: THE Oceans & Seas Thread pt 3

Unread postby Cog » Sat 11 Mar 2017, 08:06:23

Relax guys. Its not the end of the world.

No wait...
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Re: THE Oceans & Seas Thread pt 3

Unread postby dohboi » Sat 11 Mar 2017, 19:11:04

"The ocean is the memory of all of the past climate change"

--Kevin Trenberth, senior scientist at the National Center for Atmospheric Research

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nati ... story.html

Oceans storing up staggering amounts of heat
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Re: THE Oceans & Seas Thread pt 3

Unread postby Cid_Yama » Sat 11 Mar 2017, 22:03:46

Did you see at the end of the article, Trump's budget assault will cause Argo data to go dark as well as the satellite data. They are trying to blind us.
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Re: THE Oceans & Seas Thread pt 3

Unread postby dohboi » Sat 11 Mar 2017, 22:45:44

yeah.

i decided that was...kinda guilding the lily here and likely to veer us off in all sorts of political directions...

but really

really


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Re: THE Oceans & Seas Thread pt 3

Unread postby Serial_Worrier » Sat 11 Mar 2017, 23:03:23

Cid_Yama wrote:Did you see at the end of the article, Trump's budget assault will cause Argo data to go dark as well as the satellite data. They are trying to blind us.


Can Trump be impeached for climate denial?
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Re: THE Oceans & Seas Thread pt 3

Unread postby 35Kas » Sun 12 Mar 2017, 22:08:18

I think this should be pretty clear to most of you now: There is nothing to be done to stop or reverse this trend except blocking out the sun. There never was and anyone that says otherwise just doesn't grasp the magnitude of the thermodynamic process in motion. Keep in mind that while surface ocean temperatures are recorded, AFAIK there is very little to measure the temperature in depth, and what little information is publicly available paints a very bad picture.

This means that oceans have been acting as a hidden heat sink and instead of simply warming up at the surface, the surface temperatures have remained somewhat steady while the majority of the new stored heat has been happening in the depths, as the warm waters of the ocean reach lower into previously cold layers.

What should be obvious to most of you is that the surface energy system of Earth operates under Energy In and Energy Out. The sun may go through cycles that change its energy output and we may be in a "cold" phase, but the continuous infusion of CO2 and more importantly CH4 in the last 200 years has reduced the Energy Out factor. The green house effect of the atmosphere is real and everyone understands it, but what is not so well understood is that with the increased heat retention it mandates, the air is heating up the ocean. As more heat is stored, warmer water goes ever deeper. Now, the fatal blow comes from the fat that there is a lot of permafrost in Siberia, but also underwater in shallow Siberian waters that were dry land before the Melt Water pulses of the end of the last Ice Age. This warm water in the ocean can melt that permafrost very fast, and in conjunction with all the CH4 coming from the land based melting permafrost...

Well, essentially, humans kick-started the process with CO2, but I think the momentum of this thing could not be stopped even decades ago. You can't stop or even reverse what is going on. We haven't even seen the effects that all this released CH4 is having/going to have, and subsequently the increasing melting rates of Ice in Greenland and Antarctica cannot be so quickly reversed, stopped or even slowed!

I am firmly of the opinion that only radical geo-engineering efforts can save us from a mass extinction event of unprecedented speed and magnitude. The weather anomalies, mass migrations and beginnings of coastal flooding that we are now experiencing are only the start. The oceans will rise 50 feet in the next few decades, plan accordingly.

But all is not lost. As long as we don't unleash weapons of mass destruction in the coming tribulations (good luck I guess, people that have nothing left to lose can be unpredictable) we should be OK in a more tropical planet with a population of a few billion. I hope to still be alive to see it happen, but my guess is that things will start to stabilize in about 30-40 years.
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Re: THE Oceans & Seas Thread pt 3

Unread postby dohboi » Sun 12 Mar 2017, 22:42:03

You pretty much had me till "geoengineering."

There's a whole thread (or two) on that kind of nonsense if you want to muck around with it. Let's keep this one to Oceans and Seas, shall we?
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Re: THE Oceans & Seas Thread pt 3

Unread postby Serial_Worrier » Sun 12 Mar 2017, 23:00:59

A 50' rise in sea level will mean about 1 billion people might survive.
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Re: THE Oceans & Seas Thread pt 3

Unread postby 35Kas » Sun 12 Mar 2017, 23:44:34

dohboi wrote:You pretty much had me till "geoengineering."

There's a whole thread (or two) on that kind of nonsense if you want to muck around with it. Let's keep this one to Oceans and Seas, shall we?


Well I don't believe it will happen but as far as I am aware is the only way that it could happen.
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Re: THE Oceans & Seas Thread pt 3

Unread postby kiwichick » Mon 13 Mar 2017, 03:22:24

@ 35 kas........how do you get a 50 foot rise in sea levels in the next few decades?
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Re: THE Oceans & Seas Thread pt 3

Unread postby 35Kas » Mon 13 Mar 2017, 04:37:11

kiwichick wrote:@ 35 kas........how do you get a 50 foot rise in sea levels in the next few decades?


Run away release of CH4 from permafrost and underwater reservoirs (clathrates) supercharges the accelerating feedback loop effect of greenhouse gas effect warming, which causes accelerated increase in ocean temperatures, polar temperatures and rapid melting of glacial ice in West Antarctica and Greenland.

The optimistic 100 year and 2 deg C estimates are blown out of the water and it happens within 10-20 years. The massive release of methane in Siberia and the Arctic Ocean has already started...

In that environment, a 3 foot rise within 10 years is possible, with increasing levels after that. The consequences would be apocalyptic, right back to Permian tier weather (tropical jungle in high latitudes).

Maybe some subject matter expert here can go into detail.
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Re: THE Oceans & Seas Thread pt 3

Unread postby Subjectivist » Mon 13 Mar 2017, 17:09:55

The American navy, and presumably others, constantly measure water temperatures up and down the colum from surface to sea floor. Temperature effects density, and density effects how sonar signals propogate over distances. There is also a distinct layer change between warm surface layer and colder layer called the thermohaline barrier that reflects sonar pretty strongly.
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Re: The Drought Thread Pt. 4

Unread postby dohboi » Wed 15 Mar 2017, 09:21:51

Marked decrease of dinoflagellate abundance during PETM observed. As oceans were this warm, it would mean vast areas of tropical continents were too hot for multicellular life at this time.

https://www.purdue.edu/newsroom/release ... -life.html
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Re: The Drought Thread Pt. 4

Unread postby Cid_Yama » Wed 15 Mar 2017, 12:27:55

No Tropical Thermostat during PETM

Extreme warmth and heat-stressed plankton in the tropics during the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum
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Global ocean temperatures rapidly warmed by ~5°C during the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum (PETM; ~56 million years ago). Extratropical sea surface temperatures (SSTs) met or exceeded modern subtropical values. With these warm extratropical temperatures, climate models predict tropical SSTs >35°C—near upper physiological temperature limits for many organisms. However, few data are available to test these projected extreme tropical temperatures or their potential lethality. We identify the PETM in a shallow marine sedimentary section deposited in Nigeria. On the basis of planktonic foraminiferal Mg/Ca and oxygen isotope ratios and the molecular proxy Embedded Image, latest Paleocene equatorial SSTs were ~33°C, and Embedded Image indicates that SSTs rose to >36°C during the PETM. This confirms model predictions on the magnitude of polar amplification and refutes the tropical thermostat theory. We attribute a massive drop in dinoflagellate abundance and diversity at peak warmth to thermal stress, showing that the base of tropical food webs is vulnerable to rapid warming.

...we surmise that conditions became too hot for most dinoflagellate taxa during the body of the PETM, when SSTs rose to values >36°C. Such temperatures are considered uninhabitable for most marine eukaryotic organisms today (48) even for hardy dinoflagellates, which are among the most temperature-resilient eukaryote plankton groups (49). Apart from often displaying narrow temperature tolerance ranges (9), many modern thermophilic organisms show a sharp decline in productivity and, consequently, survival above optimum temperatures (50). A similar absence of mixed-layer planktonic foraminifera was observed in Tanzania (12), suggesting that heat stress may have been more widespread in tropical marginal marine settings during the PETM.

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Longstanding theories dating to the 1980s suggest that as the rest of the earth warms, the tropical temperatures would be strictly limited, or regulated by an internal 'thermostat.' These theories are controversial, but the debate is of great importance because the tropics and subtropics comprise half of the earth's surface area, greater than half of the earth's biodiversity, as well as over half the earth's human population. But new geological and climate-based research indicates the tropics may have reached a temperature 56 million years ago that was, indeed, too hot for living organisms to survive in parts of the tropics.

"The records produced in this study indicate that when the tropics warmed that last little bit, a threshold was passed and parts of the tropical biosphere seems to have died," Huber said. "This is the first time that we've found really good information, in a very detailed way, where we saw major changes in the tropics directly associated with warming past a key threshold in the past 60 million years."

If you say there's no tropical thermostat, then half of the world's biodiversity -- over half of the world's population, the tropical rainforests, the reefs, India, Brazil -- these populous and very important countries have nothing to prevent them from warming up substantially above conditions that humans can survive.



Did they really believe in some homeostatic salvation for the tropics, or was it just too inconvenient to speak the truth?
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Re: THE Oceans & Seas Thread pt 3

Unread postby dissident » Wed 15 Mar 2017, 23:34:53

Looks like the biologists bought into some quackery about ocean-atmosphere dynamics. Just as there is no thermal valve in the atmosphere (e.g. infrared iris of R. Lindzen), there is no valve in the ocean. Basically all sea life is concentrated in the uppermost euphotic zone and the seabed. The surface ocean can keep warming beyond 36 C since the mixed layer gets shallower and there is a reduction of heat exchange with the colder subsurface waters:

https://academic.oup.com/icesjms/articl ... -to-global

A process of enhanced exchange of deep colder waters to the surface would act like a homeostatic mechanism (up to some limit when the oceans warmed to the seabed). But arrogant humans don't have any such luck.
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Re: THE Oceans & Seas Thread pt 3

Unread postby dohboi » Sun 19 Mar 2017, 14:26:06

I posted this in the Antarctic thread, but since the result is massive sea level rise, possibly in our lifetimes (excluding octogenarians and older, perhaps), it should probably go here as well:

http://www.climatecodered.org/2017/01/a ... multi.html

The Amundsen Sea sector of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet has most likely been destabilized and ice retreat is unstoppable for the current conditions.
No further acceleration in climate change is necessary to trigger the collapse of the rest of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet, with loss of a significant fraction on a decadal to century time scale.
Antarctica has the potential to contribute more than a metre of sea-level rise by 2100.
A large fraction of West Antarctic basin ice could be gone within two centuries, causing a 3–5 metre sea level rise.
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