{"id":5242,"date":"2012-10-10T04:11:43","date_gmt":"2012-10-10T08:11:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/?p=5242"},"modified":"2012-10-02T18:34:43","modified_gmt":"2012-10-02T22:34:43","slug":"year-3-month-10-day-10-you-cant-tuna-fish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/year-3-month-10-day-10-you-cant-tuna-fish\/","title":{"rendered":"Year 3, Month 10, Day 10: You Can&#8217;t Tuna Fish&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Minneapolis Star-Tribune cites a report from the LA Times that as the oceans change, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.startribune.com\/lifestyle\/blogs\/172151981.html\">fish are shrinking<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>It\u2019s not just fish populations shrinking, according to a new study. Fish themselves will be much smaller within a few decades.<\/p>\n<p>Global warming linked to greenhouse-gas emissions will cause the body weight of more than 600 types of marine fish to dwindle up to 24% between 2000 and 2050, according to a report in the journal Nature Climate Change.<\/p>\n<p>Additional factors, such as overfishing and pollution, will only make matters worse.<\/p>\n<p>Ultimately, the changes \u201care expected to have large implications for trophic interactions, ecosystem functions, fisheries and global protein supply,\u201d according to the study.<\/p>\n<p>Aquatic creatures grow depending on the temperature, oxygen and resources available in water, according to researchers. Fish will struggle to breathe and develop as oceans become warmer and less oxygenated.<\/p>\n<p><\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Rush Limbaugh thinks it&#8217;s environmentalists doing it, I&#8217;m sure.  Sent October 2:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Leave aside that industrialized fishing and exploding human populations have already reduced world fish populations to a fraction of their former numbers.  Leave aside that as oceans absorb excess CO2, they acidify, creating hostile conditions for much sea life.  The news that climate change is affecting fishes&#8217; physical size may seem surprising, but in a larger context it&#8217;s one among many unanticipated consequences proliferating in the wake of rising atmospheric CO2.  <\/p>\n<p>As we enter the Anthropocene Era, defined by human intervention in the climate, we&#8217;ll be facing a lot of surprises.  While some will be pleasant (longer growing seasons in Northern latitudes may make farmers happy), the vast majority point to a more difficult life for our descendants, who may well find themselves gasping for oxygen as oceanic phytoplankton die off in record numbers.  <\/p>\n<p>Shrinking fish are just one more dismaying facet of a metastasizing planetary crisis, one we ignore at our peril.  How many more such news items must we read before we finally act?<\/p>\n<p>Warren Senders<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Minneapolis Star-Tribune cites a report from the LA Times that as the oceans change, fish are shrinking: It\u2019s not just fish populations shrinking, according to a new study. Fish themselves will be much smaller within a few decades. Global warming linked to greenhouse-gas emissions will cause the body weight of more than 600 types [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,44],"tags":[733,476,884,1186],"class_list":["post-5242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","category-politics","tag-agriculture","tag-fishing","tag-greenhouse-effect","tag-unintended-consequences"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5242","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5242"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5242\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5243,"href":"https:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5242\/revisions\/5243"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}