Climate Change(d)?

[steve_bank]

Here in Washington the sport of long distance cold water swimming is being impacted.

Water is getting too warm.

She competes in near-freezing water. But, she can't find any in the Pacific Northwest

A Washington ice swimmer spent 18 months preparing to break a national record. Then Puget Sound stopped cooperating.

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She competes in near-freezing water. But, she can't find any in the Pacific Northwest
A Washington ice swimmer spent 18 months preparing to break a national record. Then Puget Sound stopped cooperating.

 

[TSwizzle]

Here in Washington the sport of long distance cold water swimming is being impacted.

lol, what a disaster!!

 

[DBT]

Here in Washington the sport of long distance cold water swimming is being impacted.

lol, what a disaster!!

If you would care to look at the big picture....of course that won't happen because the weather is just fine in Santa Monica.

 

[steve_bank]

Here in Washington the sport of long distance cold water swimming is being impacted.

lol, what a disaster!!

It is the canary in the mine.

Marine life are very sensitive to temperature. Pacific coastal life has been observed migrating north for some time. Marine food chain and reproduction cycles get in terupted.

Puget Sound has a vast array of life. Orcas are hanging on by a thread.

Upset the ocean life too much and it will affect us, food obviously. Oxygen generational by plankton.

Where do you think oxygen comes from?

 

[TSwizzle]

Why do you people think that climate never changes? Baffling.

 

[robnisch]

Why do you people think that climate never changes? Baffling.

Speed Matters.
A hundred years as opposed to thousands of years.

 

[Elixir]

Why do you people think that climate never changes? Baffling.

Speed Matters.

Speed kills. We are in the middle of a great extinction event.

 

[steve_bank]

Why do you people think that climate never changes? Baffling.

The TSwizzle stock response #9.

The TSwizzle Guide To Climate Chnange

1. This obsession with carbon really needs to stop.
2. This obsession with CO2 is coming to an end.
3. Teh Gruaniad says
4. It is a catastrophic 75 degrees today.
5. He’s a cultist.It is a catastrophic 73 degrees in Santa Monica today
6. It really is a rapture like cult.
7. It really is a religion for you.
8 You are dumber than I thought
9. Climate always changes.
10. Human activity has very little impact on the climate compared to what occurs naturally.
11. CO2 does not control the earth’s climate.
12. Net Zero is sold as the only thing that will save the planet from the climate apocalypse
13. I’d rather discuss science with Christians
14, Climate change is propaganda pushed by politicians and activists.
15. Scientists are climate atavists, ergo climate science is wrong,
16. The climate "scientists" have been predicting climate catastrophe for decades. No catastrophes, we are still here.

Rev 7

 

[steve_bank]

TSwizzle probably thinks oxygen is just there. Water comes from the kitchen sink tap.

Flush the toilet and it is out of sight out of mind.

Food comes from a grocery store.

How much oxygen comes from the ocean?

At least half of the oxygen produced on Earth comes from the ocean, mostly from tiny photosynthesizing plankton. But marine life also uses roughly the same amount of oxygen to breathe, for cellular respiration, and in the decomposition process.

oceanservice.noaa.gov

Scientists estimate that roughly half of the oxygen production on Earth comes from the ocean. The majority of this production is from oceanic plankton — drifting plants, algae, and some bacteria that can photosynthesize. One particular species, Prochlorococcus, is the smallest photosynthetic organism on Earth. But this little bacteria produces up to 20% of the oxygen in our entire biosphere. That’s a higher percentage than all of the tropical rainforests on land combined.

Study shows oceanic phytoplankton declines in Northern Hemisphere - NASA Science

The world's oceans have seen significant declines in certain types of microscopic plant-life at the base of the marine food chain, according to a new NASA study.

science.nasa.gov

The world's oceans have seen significant declines in certain types of microscopic plant-life at the base of the marine food chain, according to a new NASA study. The research, published Sept. 23 in Global Biogeochemical Cycles, a journal of the American Geophysical Union, is the first to look at global, long-term phytoplankton community trends based on a model driven by NASA satellite data.

Diatoms, the largest type of phytoplankton algae, have declined more than 1 percent per year from 1998 to 2012 globally, with significant losses occurring in the North Pacific, North Indian and Equatorial Indian oceans. The reduction in population may reduce the amount of carbon dioxide drawn out of the atmosphere and transferred to the deep ocean for long-term storage.

"Phytoplankton need carbon dioxide for photosynthesis, just like trees," said oceanographer and lead author Cecile Rousseaux, of Universities Space Research Association and NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. Carbon dioxide (CO2) from the atmosphere dissolves in cold ocean water. During a phytoplankton bloom, which can span hundreds of miles and be seen from space, the tiny organisms take up the dissolved CO2 and convert it to organic carbon – a form that animals can use as food to grow, the essential base of the marine food web. Then when the phytoplankton cell dies, it sinks to the ocean floor, taking with it the carbon in its body.

 

[Loren Pechtel]

Why do you people think that climate never changes? Baffling.

It doesn't change this fast naturally.

And you seem to think that just because it does change that the change isn't harmful. Historical climate change on Earth would take us out. In both directions.

 

[Elixir]

It doesn't change this fast naturally.

Drizzle knows that. He just keeps trolling because that’s all he’s got.

 

[steve_bank]

The TSwizzle Guide To Climate Change

1. This obsession with carbon really needs to stop.
2. This obsession with CO2 is coming to an end.
3. Teh Gruaniad says
4. It is a catastrophic 75 degrees today.
5. He’s a cultist.It is a catastrophic 73 degrees in Santa Monica today
6. It really is a rapture like cult.
7. It really is a religion for you.
8 You are dumber than I thought
9. Climate always changes.
10. Human activity has very little impact on the climate compared to what occurs naturally.
11. CO2 does not control the earth’s climate.
12. Net Zero is sold as the only thing that will save the planet from the climate apocalypse
13. I’d rather discuss science with Christians
14, Climate change is propaganda pushed by politicians and activists.
15. Scientists are climate atavists, ergo climate science is wrong,
16. The climate "scientists" have been predicting climate catastrophe for decades. No catastrophes, we are still here.
17

Rev 8

 

[TSwizzle]

It is a catastrophic 85 degrees in the SFV today.

 

[Jimmy Higgins]

Western Cities crush winter season temp records (as in three month duration average temperature) by as much as 3 degrees.

Several cities can now claim winter 2025-26 as their warmest on record, including locations with over a century of data, like Salt Lake City (152 years of data), Tucson (130 years of data) and Rapid City, South Dakota (114 years of data).

Phoenix, Arizona, obliterated its previous record (a record that was only a year old, mind you) by almost 3 degrees, a pummeling of a record in the realm of three-month temperature data.

Albuquerque, New Mexico, clobbered its previous record warmest winter by 3 degrees, according to the Southeast Regional Climate Center. Helena, Montana, Las Vegas and Lubbock, Texas, were among the other cities record warm this winter.

Breaking an all-time daily record by 3 degrees is a lot. Three month average? For Albuquerque, their 2nd to 20th warmest winter avg temps were 42.87 to 40.23 degrees. This year, 45.9 degrees.

It is a catastrophic 85 degrees in the SFV today.

Yeah, that sounds totally normal for the end of February.

 

[Elixir]

sounds totally normal for the end of February.

Valley Girls are tough. They can take it.

 

[southernhybrid]

I think it was Tom Friedman who once referred to climate change as global weirding. I think he made a good point. Over the past week or two in North Central Georgia, the temps have been between 10 and 19 degrees above normal. Sadly a cold front has moved through and with the wind chill, it feels like about 35 degrees. Next week we will have two nights where the temps will be below freezing, way believe normal for mid March. Then a few days later, it will back in the upper 70s, assuming anyone knows how to predict the weather these days. The sad part is that the leaves are on the trees or partly on the trees. My azaleas are blooming and even an Iris or two is out in full bloom. Plus the birds are nesting. We even saw an egg that hatched already, way earlier than normal. Will the cold temps hurt the eggs or the baby birds or kill the beautiful flowers? Maybe not, but this climate change shit is getting crazier and concerning. It is global weirding for sure. In fact, it was about 80 in NJ yesterday but NJ will have snow this week. So, don't believe the shit that someone from Santa Monica, who has probably never read an article by an actual climate scientist, says. His most intelligent response is .

 

[Elixir]

I think it was Tom Friedman who once referred to climate change as global weirding. I think he made a good point. Over the past week or two in North Central Georgia, the temps have been between 10 and 19 degrees above normal. Sadly a cold front has moved through and with the wind chill, it feels like about 35 degrees. Next week we will have two nights where the temps will be below freezing, way believe normal for mid March. Then a few days later, it will back in the upper 70s, assuming anyone knows how to predict the weather these days. The sad part is that the leaves are on the trees or partly on the trees. My azaleas are blooming and even an Iris or two is out in full bloom. Plus the birds are nesting. We even saw an egg that hatched already, way earlier than normal. Will the cold temps hurt the eggs or the baby birds or kill the beautiful flowers? Maybe not, but this climate change shit is getting crazier and concerning. It is global weirding for sure. In fact, it was about 80 in NJ yesterday but NJ will have snow this week. So, don't believe the shit that someone from Santa Monica, who has probably never read an article by an actual climate scientist, says. His most intelligent response is .

That's sad stuff.
When we built a house and moved here 30 years ago, there were hordes of Mountain Bluebirds. About ten years ago we started seeing Western Bluebirds, and a few even nested here. I've seen some migrating flocks of Mountain bluebirds over the last four years, but they don't stop and nest here any more. Not even the Western Bluebirds. They used to compete for our bird boxes, now they lay empty, unless swallows move in. Even the swallows are thinning out alarmingly; I am fairly sure the whole thing is related to insect populations, which have crashed noticeably over recent years. We hardly even have house flies any more and haven'I t had a mosquito bite in a couple of years. On the bright side, Pirhana fly spray (for horses) costs close to $100/gallon lately, and I am using a lot less of it...

 

[southernhybrid]

I think it was Tom Friedman who once referred to climate change as global weirding. I think he made a good point. Over the past week or two in North Central Georgia, the temps have been between 10 and 19 degrees above normal. Sadly a cold front has moved through and with the wind chill, it feels like about 35 degrees. Next week we will have two nights where the temps will be below freezing, way believe normal for mid March. Then a few days later, it will back in the upper 70s, assuming anyone knows how to predict the weather these days. The sad part is that the leaves are on the trees or partly on the trees. My azaleas are blooming and even an Iris or two is out in full bloom. Plus the birds are nesting. We even saw an egg that hatched already, way earlier than normal. Will the cold temps hurt the eggs or the baby birds or kill the beautiful flowers? Maybe not, but this climate change shit is getting crazier and concerning. It is global weirding for sure. In fact, it was about 80 in NJ yesterday but NJ will have snow this week. So, don't believe the shit that someone from Santa Monica, who has probably never read an article by an actual climate scientist, says. His most intelligent response is .

That's sad stuff.
When we built a house and moved here 30 years ago, there were hordes of Mountain Bluebirds. About ten years ago we started seeing Western Bluebirds, and a few even nested here. I've seen some migrating flocks of Mountain bluebirds over the last four years, but they don't stop and nest here any more. Not even the Western Bluebirds. They used to compete for our bird boxes, now they lay empty, unless swallows move in. Even the swallows are thinning out alarmingly; I am fairly sure the whole thing is related to insect populations, which have crashed noticeably over recent years. We hardly even have house flies any more and haven'I t had a mosquito bite in a couple of years. On the bright side, Pirhana fly spray (for horses) costs close to $100/gallon lately, and I am using a lot less of it...

We still have a huge number of birds on our feeders, especially cardinals, mockingbirds, blue jays, crows titmice and a variety of finches. Once in awhile I see a bluebird or a gold finch, but not as often as we did years ago.

We are all fucked and so are the birds.

 

[steve_bank]

Birdwatchers have records going back to he 19th centry.

Birds are arriving north earlier. It can be out of sink with food blooms.

From a 90s a UW report. Returning salmon in Lake Washington feed on prey fish which bloom with an algae food bloom. The algae bloom is triggered by lake temperature which is rising. Returning salmon are past the food peak.


A lot of biological cycles in he wild are tied to temperature.

 

[steve_bank]

OMG it i9s showjumping ijn Seattle. I guess all that gl0bhal warming stuff is fake.