Over at Grist, where “burnt out” David Roberts just threw in the towel, the craziness continues with a new alarmist writer:
Vanishing ocean smell could also mean fewer clouds
By John Upton
Next time you’re at the beach take a deep, long sniff: That special coastal scent might not last forever. While you’re at it, put on some extra sunscreen: As that smell dwindles, cloud cover could, too.
The unique oceanside smell that flows over your olfactory organs is loaded with sulfur — dimethylsulfide, to be exact, or DMS. It’s produced when phytoplankton decompose. And it’s a fragrant compound that’s as special as it smells: In the atmosphere it reacts to produce sulfuric acid, which aids in the formation of clouds.
But it’s a smell that’s endangered by climate change. Experiments have linked the rising acidity of the world’s oceans to falling levels of DMS.
Gosh, it’s just double plus terrifying. Marc Morano quips:
New Warmist Fear: Global warming causing the oceans to lose their smell! Oceans unique odor is a ‘smell that’s endangered by climate change’ — ‘The real horror might be raising kids in a world where the only place you can smell the ocean is Bath & Bodyworks.’
Kramer’s fragrance “The Beach” might also be a last refuge.
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Your post is great!
What do you think about this?
http://www.masterresource.org/2013/07/global-warming-ills-2/
Reblogged this on CACA and commented:
Morano: New Warmist Fear: Global warming causing the oceans to lose their smell! Oceans unique odor is a ‘smell that’s endangered by climate change’ — ‘The real horror might be raising kids in a world where the only place you can smell the ocean is Bath & Bodyworks.’
hehe
…it’s a half degree
that was discovered through adjusting past temps to show a greater slope in increase
There’s a seemingly endless supply of fibs that the climate liars can come up with. They just love to double-down on their “threats”, one playing on people’s emotions (ocean smell going away), the other just your ordinary everyday positive feedback loop “threat”. What have they got to lose now, though? In for a penny, in for a pound. Might as well go whole hog.
OT Anthony, Seems the USCGC Healy is on a research mission to the North pole, Teachers on the Ice
This teachers on the ice to the N pole expedition is taking place,
This is what they say :
The purpose of this research is to “prove or disprove a theory of the Little/Mini Ice Age”, and much more, which will be explained to me as the cruise continues.
http://www.dannyblas.com/search?updated-max=2013-08-21T11:17:00-07:00&max-results=7
http://www.dannyblas.com/
My tweet before digging and found out why the USCGC Healey is burning Tax Payer $$$
https://twitter.com/NJSnowFan/status/372735791945887744/photo/1
If the USCGC Healey goes to the North pole then it will be the Second Ice/Destroying Breaking ship to visit the N pole this summer
Supper Mann has been spotted on the Arctic Ice.
http://www.dannyblas.com/2013/08/arctic-expedition-day-10-teachers-at.html
Don’t copy and paste the picture. All images, videos, and works are owned exclusively by Danny Blas, unless noted otherwise.
http://www.dannyblas.com/
Did he just say what I thought he said? “In the atmosphere it reacts to produce sulfuric acid, which aids in the formation of clouds.” Aren’t companies spending tons of money to remove sulfur from their emissions because it forms sulfuric acid which is supposedly a bad thing? Which is it? Good if produced by oceans, but bad if produed by evil corporations?
At times like these, it is difficult to find an appropriate response, except to say the obvious that the CAGW crowd is getting rather desperate now that global temperatures have remained flat for the last 15 years, and they need to divert the public’s attention away from this fact as much as possible.
However, picking up from a comment to this same article elsewhere, I am still chuckling over it as it bears repeating: “Good! Perhaps the new ocean smell will cover up the stench of CAGW.”
But it’s a smell that’s endangered by climate change. Experiments have linked the rising acidity of the world’s oceans to falling levels of DMS.
Would somebody please tell these dip$#!^$ that ocean acidity is not climate.
So the ocean has gone from being described as becoming “more acidic” to “the rising acidity of the oceans”. One may be able to make the argument that the first is technically true although “less alkaline” is a more correct description, however the second directly implies that the oceans are presently acidic.
Ok, so global warming will affect DMS. But, I think more importantly is the question, ‘how will it affect PMS?’
So Upton is saying he wants acid rain?
I visited the beach at the NJ Shore after Sandy to help a friend and the ocean/bay smelled like Crap.
I found out latter that is because they were dumping 1 billion of gallons of Raw sewage into the water ways a day because power was out and no back up Generators were in place to run the sewage treatment plants.
I was back at the beach last week and the ocean smelled fine again.
It is amazing all the BS the warmist will come up with to keep the funding going.
I have noticed lattley the wording has changed some, the Could and It’s are going missing from their so called studies. That means one thing to me, the warmist are getting desperate.
Could and If’s
DMS production can be altered by many things, not just an unmeasured change in pH. Nutrient variation is an obvious one, with dissolved silica being an example. When the ocean blooms after the winter it first grows diatoms which dominate until they hit the silica buffer. Then the calcareous phytoplankton take over. Farming has upped the run-off of dissolved silica.
It’s going to be very amusing if the global warming scare is all the fault of farming or sewage run-off.
JF
Tallbloke’s Tim Channon noticed something odd; the Belgians have sense of humour.
No, I don’t think so.
SIDC is the world’s Solar Influences Data Analysis Center.
Note words Solar Influences
Could it possibly be the climate?
Now, most of us are aware of something called ‘solar polar magnetic field reversal’ subject that SIDC is currently preoccupied with.
We all also heard about plight of the polar bears and penguins in current global warming epoch.
So SIDC illustrates their front page (http://sidc.oma.be/) with an extremely happy snoozing polar bear with no shortage of snow and ice, and accompanied with an unlikely prop-powered penguin.
http://sidc.oma.be/news/211/Picture0.png
The actual article page illustration is even more intriguing, http://sidc.oma.be/news/211/Picture6.png
to me it suggest ‘snowball earth’ with polar bear greeting penguins somwhere in the mid Atlantic, holding Hansen’s model of overheated globe as a reminder of now instinct humans and their climate science folly.
SIDC and you and I know that solar activity is winding down, the Earth will cool somewhat, but ‘snowball Earth’, that is overdoing it a smidgen.
I wonder if SIDC knowws something about Solar Influences the rest of us don’t.
🙂
Is there anything co2 can’t do?
Steve says: @ur momisugly August 28, 2013 at 9:13 am
Did he just say what I thought he said? “In the atmosphere it reacts to produce sulfuric acid, which aids in the formation of clouds.”….
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
It is even funnier than that.
From The WUWT Hot Sheet for Monday August 26th, 2013
So do we get to tell ecologist Gene Likens, founding director of the Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies that he has the WRONG Villian? After all it MUST BE TRUE if it is publist at GRIST!
…hmmmm…where do these clowns come from??? chemistry 101…..ocean is very high in buffers that neutralize acids and alkaloids. ….yawn…the temp changes brought on by el nino and la nina are far greater. And the temperature changes of winter to summer currents are far greater. And….yawn…little ocean critters just keep having a great day!
And: http://wattsupwiththat.com/2011/12/27/the-ocean-is-not-getting-acidified/
Darn, fumble fingers strikes again publist = published
How less can be more.
I wonder how the oceans smelled when co2 was 2,000ppm?
The unique oceanside smell that flows over your olfactory organs is loaded with sulfur — dimethylsulfide, to be exact, or DMS. (…)
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But it’s a smell that’s endangered by climate change. Experiments have linked the rising acidity of the world’s oceans to falling levels of DMS. (…)
Dimethyl sulfide? That’s found in flatus emissions. From the cutting-edge science experts at the Australian Broadcasting Commune:
http://www.abc.net.au/spark/smelly/begone/begone04.htm
Thanks to global warming, the ocean will smell less like a sweet fart?
Next article to grab headlines: CO2 Shall Cause Oceans To Become Rotting Cesspits.
These authors reveal a certain panic mixed with infantile one-upsmanship and a great deal ill education in the areas they profess expertise.
So, if decomposing plankton, etc. don’t give off dimethyl sulfide anymore what WILL they be off gassing?
@Patrick Guinness
An animal in the headline always grabs more attention, e.g., “Climate Change Is Destroying Penguin Population in Antarctica.” The content of such an article would be about how the collapsing ice from global warming is falling on the penguins’ heads and killing them all. Maybe I should submit something like this to The Onion. LOL!