Following the IPCC recommendations on electrical generation and transportation will mean thousands of energy and transportation workers will transition to jobs building new systems and eventually operating them but what will happen to fishermen if we do not heed the latest warnings from the IPCC about the changes in the oceans and the polar regions?
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| Climate changes fishery |
The CBC reports that Canadian fishermen are feeling the effects of climate change as the IPCC world panel sounds an alarm bell. Compiled by more than 100 authors who examined 7,000 scientific publications, the IPCC Special Report on the Ocean and Cryosphere in a Changing Climate emphasized that the ocean is warmer, more acidic and less productive.
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| Warmer and more acidic |
When Stuart Beaton started fishing for lobster in 1971, the ocean waters off the northern coast of Nova Scotia and the marine creatures that lived beneath the waves behaved differently than today.
There is now less ice coverage in the spring, new species have arrived and lobsters are flocking to more northern waters amid rising ocean temperatures. His family, with three generations of lobster fishermen, have watched the changes in real time over half a century.
"In our business, we're very exposed to what happens. If two degrees kills the oceans..." said his son, Gordon Beaton, during an interview on a wharf in Ballantynes Cove, N.S., before his father added: "We're going to be the first to know."
Their comments come as a UN-backed panel of experts released a new study Wednesday about the ocean and the cryosphere — the frozen parts of the planet.1
The Guardian offers a report on the climate crisis explained in 10 charts.The level of CO2 has been rising since the industrial revolution and is now at its highest for about 4 million years. The rate of the rise is even more striking – the fastest for 66m years – with scientists saying we are in “uncharted territory”.
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| https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/sep/20/the-climate-crisis-explained-in-10-charts |
Greenland has lost almost 4 trillion tonnes of ice since 2002. Mountain ranges from the Himalayas to the Andes to the Alps are also losing ice rapidly as glaciers shrink. A third of the Himalayan and Hindu Kush ice is already doomed.
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| https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/sep/20/the-climate-crisis-explained-in-10-charts |
Sea levels are inexorably rising as ice on land melts and hotter oceans expand. Sea levels are slow to respond to global heating, so even if the temperature rise is restricted to 2C, one in five people in the world will eventually see their cities submerged, from New York to London to Shanghai.
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| https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/sep/20/the-climate-crisis-explained-in-10-charts |
As heating melts the sea ice, the darker water revealed absorbs more of the sun’s heat, causing more heating – one example of the vicious circles in the climate system. Scientists think the changes in the Arctic may be responsible for worsened heatwaves and floods in Eurasia and North America.
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| https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/sep/20/the-climate-crisis-explained-in-10-charts |
An analysis of a national climate poll by Seth Klein concludes that when it comes to climate action, the public is ahead of our politics.
My main takeaway from this national opinion survey of 2,000 people is that the public is ahead of our politics. A large share of Canadians is already deeply worried about the climate crisis, and they are increasingly ready for bold and ambitious actions. In the wake of the latest report from the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), released last October, combined with recent weather events, we may well be witnessing a shift in public opinion.
People are deeply anxious about what climate change means for the fate of our children and grandchildren. When asked if climate change represents a “major threat to the future of our children and grandchildren,” 81% responded that it does (49% strongly agree and a further 32% agree). Even 67% of Albertans agree with this statement.3
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| Coastal changes in Nova Scotia |
“All politics is local” is an important cliche
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| Political action required |
when Atlantic Canadians consider how the fishery may be severely impacted by the increasing concentration of C02 in the atmosphere causing the oceans to warm and turn acidic.
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