Who says “global warming” doesn’t have some positive value? Well I guess if you are a tofu chomping green that recoils at the thought of eating lobster, you wouldn’t see this in a positive light, but many people do.
Miguel Rakiewicz submits this in WUWT Tips and Notes today:
Newly abundant and much cheaper lobster thanks to Global Warming.
———————————
A story published in The Toronto Star in print on Saturday, 07 July 2012, and on the web on Friday, 06 July 2012, (06 July 2012) http://www.thestar.com/business/article/1223031–lobster-is-now-cheaper-than-cold-cuts-in-some-places-mclobster-anyonereveals that lobster prices have gone down substantially enough to make it much more accessible to the average consumer.
On Friday, oversupply pushed the price to fishermen down to $2.50 a pound in Maine and $4 in Canada.
…
As the text proceeds, it eventually gets to the reason for this economic and culinary miracle:Global Warming.
” [ Geoff Irvine, executive director of the Lobster Council of Canada ] blames global warming and increasing water temperatures for the current oversupply. The Maine lobsters have come to market a month early, because of the warm spring temperatures, he said. ”
A lobster, or more, in every pot is the gift of Global Warming. An interesting new slide for
Al Gore’s next show.
==============================================================
Of course a warm spring doesn’t prove anything and we should remember that seafood is not climate. OTOH, we’ve been lectured that this warm spring is a likely signature of global warming, so I suppose we can posit a connection.
Sounds to me that Geoff Irvine of the Lobster council blamed warn spring temperatures and the author of the article, Francine Kopun, turned that into Global Warming. Which, in and of itself, says a lot.
More than likely the price has dropped due to less spare dollars more than anything else as we in the west go broke subsidising looney green schemes. That said the price of crustaceans may as well be the next proxy evidence for AGW in AR5 for all the accuracy it offers.
Let’s work for a green bringing global temps down….lobsters must
stay exclusive for us gourmees, and is no food for Jim and Joe…
[SNIP: This had nothing to do with the thread. Please do not abuse guest priviliges by trying to lure readers to your site this way. -REP]
What a load of rubbish!
Warm spring does not warm the oceans and lobsters who live in the bottom of the sea (or at least some meters below the surface) are not subject to weather like that.
More probable cause is low demand for the product bring the prices down .
Its economic: I read that lobsters breed and need 11 C constant
temps and dont want higher and lower temps….. they could have
migrated South/North on the sea floor if they liked it warmer or
colder….
And if there had been an unusual delay because of a cold spring, there would have been nary a word.
Pooh. It has to be AGW to provide an excuse for statist meddling and the elimination of economic freedom.
In many ways the Green Economy is nothing more than 21st century mercantilism for the politically connected. If we do not get a handle on that reality, mercantilism will squelch widespread prosperity.
And then it will be visible serfdom.
This is good news if you like eating the large “insects of the sea”. For my palate I’ll take shrimp, fish that’s good with tartar sauce, and “chicken of the sea”. I’ll accept clam chowder, New England style only, hold the grit.
“Well I guess if you are a tofu chomping green that recoils at the thought of eating lobster, you wouldn’t see this in a positive light, but many people do.”
It’s sentences like this that really let one know they’re reading one of the best “science” blogs on the internet.
ISTR reading that in colonial America, lobster was considered “trash food”, and that jailed prisoners in New England complained of being forced to eat it.
As we all know, global warming is the certain cause of almost any minor aberration in the weather, animal/bird/insect behaviour, and God knows what else – the list seems endless.
So Todd, as there is virtually no real science in ‘climate science’, it is fun to point out the stupid statements and beliefs of the CAGW faithful. It is much less fun to constantly have to decipher and expose the fraudulent practices of the CAGW cult leadership, which include massive data manipulation to ‘prove’ their beliefs – but it has to be done.
If it was not for blogs like WUWT, Jo Nova and Climate Audit, the purveyors of fraudulent ‘climate science’ would never have been exposed. I find that thought totally scary.
One would have to assume that the lobsters cares little about the average global ocean temp and rather more about the local temperature around him.
Must be cool in Croatia as I just forked out a good US$100 for to fine lobsters…
Global warming – the gift that keeps on giving!
Following the 1999 lobster die-off event, six years of research concluded that the die-off was driven principally by high bottom water temperatures throughout the western and central Sound. These stressful temperatures were only 1-2 C warmer than the Sound’s long-term average, but were above what is now known to be the upper thermal stress (20 C or 68 F) for lobster and possibly other cold adapted species such as winter flounder. The cause of rising water temperatures are not known but global climate change has been implicated as a factor.
See http://www.ct.gov/dep/lib/dep/fishingfisheries_management/022609_lobster_volunteer_termperature_survey.pdf
I’m just waiting for the paper that says the delicate eco balance has been put on a tipping point due to the bigger lobsters putting other species under possible threat of extinction, and it’s all our fault, blah blah blah. [/absolutely no sarc]
I thought I read somewhere that the lobster population is up because codfish populations are down due to the heavy fishing. Codfish love to feed on baby lobsters. So less codfish, more baby lobsters survive. Sounds more believable than global warming.
Don’t believe everything you read. Here in New Hampshire the lobster prices are close to double what they were just 6 months ago.
Cinaed, your link does not work.
A lobster die-off or just the lobsters moved from the sound with increase in temp. Same would go for the flounder.
Did Global Warming cause the water temp increase?
Rob-Supposedly the Indians brought lobster to that first Thanksgiving. The Pilgrims were horrified at the idea of eating such a thing.
Apparently higher water temperatures can cause lobster populations to rise or crash . 😉
Todd says:
July 9, 2012 at 10:42 am
Did you read that as a pejorative? I thought it was a pretty accurate description of my vegan relatives. Hardest part is not finding food, you can grow the food, it’s finding decent shoes!
I am a global warming skeptic, but last week, we could have cooked the lobster and melted the butter on our sidewalk.
REPLY: Butter melt, maybe…but no, you couldn’t cook a lobster. ABC made fools of themselves trying to cook an egg once: http://www.mrc.org/node/27164
-Anthony
Seafood is NOT climate? Now I really know that I am dealing with a bunch of denier lunatics. Speaking of seafood, pollution of the oceans and overfishing are huge problems that could be overcome if so much money was not wasted on CAGW snake oil and charlatanism.
How much global warming took place, and how much warming was the specific locale subjected to that they can draw such ignorant conclusions?
Re: REPLY: Butter melt, maybe…but no, you couldn’t cook a lobster. ABC made fools of themselves trying to cook an egg once: http://www.mrc.org/node/27164 -Anthony
I prefer my eggs over easy and not on concrete, even if everything is better with bacon.
Good to read that one additional species thrives with global
warming:
Now we have 2 survivors of the doom: The Penguin, which
can breed on the rocks of Antarctica, holding up the eggs
between the legs, and now the lobster….which will even
thrive better, when, after doomsday, men won’t catch them
anymore….