Scientist speaks of ‘depression’ due to climate change
Corals throughout the Caribbean are bleaching (casting out their algae). Credit: OAR/National Undersea Research Program (NURP); University of North Carolina at Wilmington
Camille Parmesan: I don’t know of a single scientist that’s not having an emotional reaction to losing their study systems.
That’s biologist Camille Parmesan of the University of Texas at Austin.
Camille Parmesan: Some of these people have been studying a particular reef or a particular bird or a particular mammal for 40 to 50 years. And to start seeing it die off is a very hard thing.
She’s referring to climate change, and she spoke of a reef she’s studied for the past seven years – now changing due to rising ocean temperatures.
Camille Parmesan: It’s gotten to be so depressing that I’m not sure I’m going to go back to this particular site again, because I just know I’m going to see more and more of it dead, and bleached, and covered with brown algae. And it’s really quite depressing.
She said her most important message is the need to curb carbon emissions now.
Camille Parmesan: There’s not some techno-fix in the future that’ll make everything better again. It’s not like one silver bullet. We need to not wait until we already have enormous impacts and people go, Oh, gee, I guess we should be doing something. If we wait until then, it’s going to be too late.
A scientist that lets emotion interfere with science is mot much of a scientist.
I hope folks have noticed that “climate change” has been substituted for “global warming” recently. There is a reason. We must have a monster to be afraid of. The “climate” has stopped warming and is cooling rather rapidly. Since we must have a boogey-man to fear, now, we must be afraid of climate change. This one is cool in that no matter what happens, cool or hot, wet or dry, mellow or tempestuous, it is change and we can be afraid. Then, we will have enough fear in us to submit to global government rule. In order to save ourselves.
It is pure claptrap. 99% of species that have ever existed are extinct. No Suburbans or Muscle Cars involved. There is no stasis in earth’s climate. Never has been, never will be. It ain’t about the climate nor is it about nature. It is about control. Not of climate but of humanity. There are no men that are working to save humanity. There are simply men that are working to further their own purposes. Don’t forget, human nature hasn’t changed. No politician is here to help you, he or she is here to help him or her.
My questions are focused on the Scientists that have been studying reefs and observing the effects of temperature changes on them. It has been shown by NOAA measurements that the oceans have been, on average, cooling by a small amount for the past several years. I understand, also that the pattern of ocean currents can and do shift over time, drawing in cooler or warmer waters to a region that may cause local cooling or warming in contrast to global ocean temperature changes.
How much of the temperature change affecting the reefs is attributable to global ocean temperatures vs. warmer waters brought in by the current pattern of ocean currents? How much lag time might we expect before we see the global cooling start to cause either a pattern shift or directly throttle the temperatures of the present currents so as to benefit the reefs?