Source: Monbiot.com
Credits: George Monbiot
Dated: 2011-12-08

A Levelling

[ An excellent article raising some excellent points for all sorts of denialists, not just for those trying, like Canute, to deny the global evidence for sea-level rise. ]

The Spectator has allowed me to rebut Nils-Axel Morner’s rubbish about sea levels.

By George Monbiot, published in the Spectator 8th December 2011.

[ These articles do not make the point that fish and jelly fish have been in a balanced struggle for precedence since the Cambrium approximately 500 million years ago. Recently man has tilted this balance massively in favour of jellyfish. Few vertebrates eat jelly fish, and most of those species which do, notably shark, tuna, salmon and turtles are threatened. More significantly, "jellyfish feed on the same kinds of prey as adult and young fish, so if fish are removed from the equation, jellyfish are likely to move in" (Marsh Youngbluth, The Washington Post, republished in the European Cetacean Bycatch Campaign, Jellyfish “blooms” could be sign of ailing seas, May 6, 2002.

Source: Associated Press via SeattlePi
Credits: Dina Cappiello (Associated Press)
Dated: 2011-07-13

House votes to take EPA off clean water beat

The Republican-controlled House passed a bill Wednesday that would sharply curtail the federal government's role in protecting waters from pollution by barring the Environmental Protection Agency from overruling state decisions on water quality.

Source: http://edition.cnn.com
Credits: Thair Shaikh
Dated: 2011-06-21

Marine life facing mass extinction, report says

A coral reef in Honolulu, Hawaii -- we face losing entire marine ecosystems, such as coral reefs, within a single generation

Source: The Daily Mail
Credits: Daily Mail Reporter
Dated: 2011-05-31

Increasingly acidic oceans leave coral reefs on brink of extinction

Coral reefs around the world could be teetering on the brink of extinction by the end of the century as the oceans become more acidic, scientists have warned.

Source: Scientific American
Credits: David Biello
Dated: 2011-01-16 

Source: Scientific American
Credits: Tiffany Stecker and Climatewire
Dated: 2011-01-18

By Agence France-Presse, Raw Story, January 4th, 2011

Scientists have found evidence of a "drastic" shift since the 1970s in north Atlantic Ocean currents that usually influence weather in the northern hemisphere, Swiss researchers said on Tuesday.

The team of biochemists and oceanographers from Switzerland, Canada and the United States detected changes in deep sea Atlantic corals that indicated the declining influence of the cold northern Labrador Current.

They said in the US National Academy of Science journal PNAS that the change "since the early 1970s is largely unique in the context of the last approximately 1,800 years," and raised the prospect of a direct link with global warming.

By Justin Gillis, NY Times, November 13, 2010

TASIILAQ, Greenland — With a tense pilot gripping the stick, the helicopter hovered above the water, a red speck of machinery lost in a wilderness of rock and ice.

To the right, a great fjord stretched toward the sea, choked with icebergs. To the left loomed one of the immense glaciers that bring ice from the top of the Greenland ice sheet and dump it into the ocean.

Hanging out the sides of the craft, two scientists sent a measuring device plunging into the water, between ice floes. Near the bottom, it reported a temperature of 40 degrees. It was the latest in a string of troubling measurements showing that the water was warm enough to melt glaciers rapidly from below.

Source: HuffingtonPost.com
Credits: Cain Burdeau
Dated: 2010-11-05
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