{"id":6508,"date":"2013-10-10T05:13:03","date_gmt":"2013-10-10T09:13:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/?p=6508"},"modified":"2013-10-02T21:11:26","modified_gmt":"2013-10-03T01:11:26","slug":"year-4-month-10-day-10-chasing-shadows-in-the-dark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/year-4-month-10-day-10-chasing-shadows-in-the-dark\/","title":{"rendered":"Year 4, Month 10, Day 10: Shadow-Boxing In The Dark"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Grand Falls\/Windsor Falls Advertiser (Newfoundland) discusses <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gfwadvertiser.ca\/Business\/2013-10-02\/article-3414301\/N.L.-fisheries-not-immune-to-climate-change%3A-scientist\/1\">fisheries specialist George Rose&#8217;s recent presentation<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Rose told the approximately 250 conference delegates the collapse of cod stocks, and the moratorium, was mainly due to overfishing.<\/p>\n<p>However, looking ahead \u2014 whether the subject is cod, caplin, lobster, crab, shrimp or any other species \u2014 determining what amounts to a sustainable fishery is about gathering the information that will provide the best, most detailed understanding of the ever-changing situation within offshore ecosystems.<\/p>\n<p>Temperatures, acidity levels, and even the amount of plastic floating in our waters all need to be considered, he said.<\/p>\n<p>On climate change, \u201cI\u2019ve read recent reports from as diverse places as Norway, the Northeastern\u2008United States and China &#8230; all basically reporting similar phenomenon: massive changes in production of their local waters,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Rose said climate has long been recognized as \u201ca major, major \u2014 probably the most important influence\u201d on fisheries.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Revised an earlier letter and sent it off.  October 2:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Even if we ignore the looming threat of climate change, Newfoundland\u2019s fisheries are already feeling the devastating impact of overfishing, where the abundant catches of decades past are no longer attainable even with the most advanced technologies.  Once we include heating and acidification (the two most significant oceanic impacts of the rapidly accelerating greenhouse effect) in our assessments, there&#8217;s no getting around the inevitability of catastrophic declines. There&#8217;ll be fewer fish in the coming decades, and they\u2019ll be increasingly difficult (and expensive) to catch. You&#8217;ve heard of Peak Oil? We\u2019ve already reached Peak Fish.<\/p>\n<p>With as much as a third of Earth\u2019s population directly or indirectly relying on the ocean for food, this constitutes a humanitarian emergency. Add climate change&#8217;s likely impacts on agriculture, and it&#8217;s a grim warning to humanity: storm clouds are gathering, and we&#8217;re in for a hell of a ride.<\/p>\n<p>The fossil-fuel industry&#8217;s myopic readiness to subsidize climate-change denial in politics and the media is a grave mistake.  With billions of lives hanging in the balance, these corporations are elevating the easy lure of quarterly profits over the long-term happiness and prosperity of our species.<\/p>\n<p>    Warren Senders<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Grand Falls\/Windsor Falls Advertiser (Newfoundland) discusses fisheries specialist George Rose&#8217;s recent presentation: Rose told the approximately 250 conference delegates the collapse of cod stocks, and the moratorium, was mainly due to overfishing. However, looking ahead \u2014 whether the subject is cod, caplin, lobster, crab, shrimp or any other species \u2014 determining what amounts to [&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":[680,1292,286,241],"class_list":["post-6508","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","category-politics","tag-corporate-irresponsibility","tag-fisheries","tag-oceanic-acidification","tag-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6508","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=6508"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6508\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6512,"href":"https:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6508\/revisions\/6512"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.warrensenders.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}