too warm? just move...

[Canuck_Buck]

Climate-driven environmental changes could drastically affect the distribution of more than 1,000 species of commercial fish and shellfish around the world, scientists say.

http://www.cnn.com/2009/TECH/science/02/12/fish.migration.study/index.html

For the first time, researchers using computer models have been able to predict the effect that warming oceans, fed by greenhouse-gas emissions, could have on marine biodiversity on a global scale.

A new study predicts that by 2050, large numbers of marine species will migrate from tropical seas toward cooler waters -- specifically the Arctic and Southern Ocean -- at an average rate of 40 to 45 kilometers (about 25 to 28 miles) per decade.

These migrations could lead to "numerous extinctions" of marine species outside the Arctic and Antarctic, especially in tropical waters, according to the study's projections.

....maybe if everyone who lives in the tropics tosses ice cubes into the ocean everyday, it could help....should we be worried?[8D]

[sachiko]

ORIGINAL: Canuck_Buck

Climate-driven environmental changes could drastically affect the distribution of more than 1,000 species of commercial fish and shellfish around the world, scientists say.

http://www.cnn.com/2009/TECH/science/02/12/fish.migration.study/index.html

For the first time, researchers using computer models have been able to predict the effect that warming oceans, fed by greenhouse-gas emissions, could have on marine biodiversity on a global scale.

A new study predicts that by 2050, large numbers of marine species will migrate from tropical seas toward cooler waters -- specifically the Arctic and Southern Ocean -- at an average rate of 40 to 45 kilometers (about 25 to 28 miles) per decade.

These migrations could lead to "numerous extinctions" of marine species outside the Arctic and Antarctic, especially in tropical waters, according to the study's projections.

....maybe if everyone who lives in the tropics tosses ice cubes into the ocean everyday, it could help....should we be worried?[8D]

No, because any climate change occurring is not caused by "greenhouse gas emissions." It would be part of a natural cycle. Nothing we can do about it so no point in worrying. Please remember that not long ago, the Great Lakes Region was covered by a humungous glacier.

[bergall]

I always thought it would be nice to catch Red Snapper and Grouper off the coast of New Jersey.
I can't wait ! What's next ? bonefish on the flats in Moriches Bay Long Island....Wahoo and King Mackerel
off the Atlantic Highlands... THERE"S change I can VOTE for ! Revv those engines !!! Idle those trucks !!!
Let's get that migration moving..... Where's Al Gore when you need him ?

[Knightia]

I wouldnt mind much if Wy became a large island- surrounded by warmsalt water seas ^& ocean sidefishing & with*a milder climate/winters.

Pff yelowlanders better build some arks- they will thenhave to go to the high spots in what was once the great white north of the northern border (, once land of the beavers& maple trees ,donuts& peameal bacon sammys-


I dont want to live in/under a largeglacier/ice sheet.