[Vision2020] Whale's odyssey sheds light on climate change, scientists say

[Ted Moffett]

You've been duped by the Knights Carbonic, who have vast powers over
manipulating the behavior of various organisms, and the Arctic sea ice, to
make it appear that climate change is a serious problem:

http://www.monbiot.com/2009/11/23/the-knights-carbonic/

>From website above:

"Our co-option of the physical world has been just as successful. The
thinning of the Arctic ice cap was a masterstroke. The ring of secret
nuclear power stations around the Arctic Circle, attached to giant immersion
heaters, remains undetected, as do the space-based lasers dissolving the
world’s glaciers.

Altering the migratory and reproductive patterns of the world’s wildlife has
proved more challenging. Though we have now asserted control over the
world’s biologists, there is no accounting for the unauthorised observations
of farmers, gardeners, bird-watchers and other troublemakers. We have
therefore been forced to drive migrating birds, fish and insects into higher
latitudes, and to release several million tonnes of plant pheromones every
year to accelerate flowering and fruiting. None of this is cheap, and ever
more public money, secretly diverted from national accounts by compliant
governments, is required to sustain it."
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Vision2020 Post: Ted Moffett

On Sun, Jun 26, 2011 at 6:29 PM, Saundra Lund <v2020 at ssl1.fastmail.fm>wrote:

>  I really appreciate articles that transforms climate change discussion
> into something understandable to all, as this article does, IMHO.****
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> *Whale's odyssey sheds light on climate change, scientists say *
> 'The implications are enormous. It's a threshold that has been crossed'***
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> *By ARTHUR MAX*****
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> updated 6/26/2011 6:12:51 AM ET****
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> AMSTERDAM — When a 43-foot gray whale was spotted off the Israeli town of
> Herzliya last year, scientists came to a startling conclusion: it must have
> wandered across the normally icebound route above Canada, where warm weather
> had briefly opened a clear channel three years earlier.****
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> On a microscopic level, scientists also have found plankton in the North
> Atlantic where it had not existed for at least 800,000 years.****
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> The whale's odyssey and the surprising appearance of the plankton indicates
> a migration of species through the Northwest Passage, a worrying sign of how
> global warming is affecting animals and plants in the oceans as well as on
> land. ****
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> "The implications are enormous. It's a threshold that has been crossed,"
> said Philip C. Reid, of the Alister Hardy Foundation for Ocean Science in
> Plymouth, England.****
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> "It's an indication of the speed of change that is taking place in our
> world in the present day because of climate change," he said in a telephone
> interview Friday.****
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> Reid said the last time the world witnessed such a major incursion from the
> Pacific was 2 million years ago, which had "a huge impact on the North
> Atlantic," driving some species to extinction as the newcomers dominated the
> competition for food.****
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> Reid's study of plankton and the research on the whale, co-authored by
> Aviad Scheinin of the Israel Marine Mammal Research and Assistance Center,
> are among nearly 300 scientific papers written over the last 13 years that
> are being synthesized and published this year by Project Clamer, a
> collaboration of 17 institutes on climate change and the oceans.****
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> *Implications for fisheries**
> *Changes in the oceans' chemistry and temperature could have implications
> for fisheries, as species migrate northward to cooler waters, said Katja
> Philippart, of the Royal Netherlands Institute of Sea Research who is
> coordinating the project funded by the European Union.****
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> "We try to put the information on the table for people who have to make
> decisions. We don't say whether it's bad or good. We say there is a high
> potential for change," she said.****
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> The Northwest Passage, the route through the frigid archipelago from Alaska
> across northern Canada, has been ice-free from one end to the other only
> twice in recorded history, in 1998 and 2007. But the ice pack is retreating
> farther and more frequently during the summers.****
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> Plankton that had previously been found only in Atlantic sea bed cores from
> 800,000 years ago appeared in the Labrador Sea in 1999 — and then in massive
> numbers in the Gulf of St. Lawrence two years later. Now it has established
> itself as far south as the New York coast, Reid said.****
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> The highly endangered gray whale sighted off the Israeli coast in May 2010
> belonged to a species that was hunted to extinction in the Atlantic by the
> mid-1700s. The same animal — identified by unique markings on its fluke, or
> tail fin — appeared off the Spanish coast 22 days later, and has not been
> reported seen since.****
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> Though it was difficult to draw conclusions from one whale, the researchers
> said its presence in the Mediterranean "coincides with a shrinking of Arctic
> Sea ice due to climate change and suggests that climate change may allow
> gray whales to re-colonize the North Atlantic."****
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> That may be good for the whales, but other aspects of the ice melt could be
> harmful to the oceans' biosystems, the scientists warn.****
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> Plankton is normally the bottom of the marine food chain, but some are more
> nutritious than others. Plankton changes have been blamed for the collapse
> of some fish stocks and threats to fish-eating birds in the North Sea, the
> studies show.****
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> The migration of a solitary whale and two species of plankton is not of
> much concern so far, Reid said. "It's the potential for further ones to come
> through if the Arctic opens. That's the key message."****
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