From the James Hansen said the oceans would boil and the Tabloid Climatology™ department…
As a long-suffering member of the television news media, some-days, I just want to find the reporter and slap him upside the head and tell him to do some basic science research before making wild claims on national TV. This is one of those days. The graphic below says it all.
From the Business and Media Institute comes this howler from CBS News about the latest IPCC report.
“[CBS] Evening News” took a different tack, airing a story about oyster farming and complaints that climate change is ruining a man’s business. But in Ben Tracy’s story, which mentioned the IPCC’s latest report, he said that oceans have absorbed much of the heat caused by CO2 and that ocean temperatures have risen only slightly. Then he made a claim that Principal Research Scientist Dr. Roy Spencer of the University of Alabama in Huntsville called “totally misleading and irresponsible.”
Here’s what the reporter said, after telling us most of the heat went into the oceans:
“Had all that heat gone into the atmosphere, air temperatures could have risen by more than 200 degrees [showed 212 degrees onscreen],” Tracy warned.
Watch the video here, be sure to leave a comment for CBS News.
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-18563_162-57605102/oyster-is-a-canary-in-a-coal-mine-as-oceans-warm/
Spencer told the MRC’s Business and Media Institute,
“The oceans have warmed by an average of less than 0.1 deg. C (only the SURFACE by about 0.5 deg.) since the 1950s, and since that is so much water mass, the absorbed heat equivalent to 0.1 deg. IF RELEASED ALL AT ONCE IN THE ATMOSPHERE [it] would, indeed, be hundreds of degrees. But this is physically impossible. It is a meaningless statistic. The heat actually had to go through the atmosphere before it reached the ocean.”
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Asked why it was hard to get the seed, Peterson says, “The oceans were getting more acidic as a byproduct of increased CO2 in the atmosphere.”
Easily debunked with real data:
GRANT NUMBER: NA66FD0123 NMFS NUMBER: 95-NWR-023
REPORT TITLE: Oyster Seed Mortality Prevention
AUTHOR: Pacific Shellfish Institute
PUBLISH DATE: March 1, 1999
AVAILABLE FROM: National Marine Fisheries Service, Northwest Region, Asked why it was hard to get the seed, Peterson says, “The oceans were getting more acidic as a byproduct of increased CO2 in the atmosphere.”7600 Sand Point Way NE, BIN C15700, Bldg #1, Seattle, WA 98115. TELEPHONE: (206) 526-6115
This study showed for the first time that ciliates cause primary infections and must be managed to prevent losses to early stage juvenile oyster cultures. Both the ciliate and extrapallial bacterial infections result from the ability of the microorganisms to pass between the outer lobe of the mantle and the inner shell surface. Ingestion of degrade cultch material resulted in growth inhibition and degradation of the digestive gland epthelium. No differences were found in growth or dieases of triploid and diploid oysters. Survival in both groups was low but related to site characteristics rather than to triploidy or diploidy. The normal developmental anatomy of juvenile oysters anatomy and a review and management analysis of juvenile oyster diseases will be published as a book, based on work performed in this study.
Opps. Inserted the comment from the oyster farmer twice.
Good info., Tim Clark.
Cows (mainly) were the cause of our local oyster farmer’s woes in 2011:
(Source:http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2011/07/11/pollution_poses_problem_for_oysters_puget_sound/)
(Note: There were dairy farms in the area before Blau Oysters started in 1935, so, there IS a potential “coming to the nuisance” issue which should mean that the farmers’ U. S. Constitution 5th Amendment property rights (against takings, by gov’t. regulation, here) require “just compensation” for fencing or whatever else needs to be done to prevent their livestock from polluting the watershed. My guess is that this is a battle of looooong standing between the dairy and oyster farmers.)
No mention of human CO2. Hm. Guess that reporter didn’t get the memo.
No, you got it wrong. The date was when it was published. Anorak correctly referred to Turnbull’s statement made in 2007. Google is your friend, check your facts next time.