To their surprise, the result of the study predicted drastic and alarming changes. Given global warming, the rise in water temperatures was a major factor in the research, and it could prove to be a game changer as warm waters were observed to negatively affect fish and plant populations in the tropics. According to the research the two put together, if temperatures continue to rise, it may just drive away many fish species to seek what are now considered colder regions.
While this may improve the biodiversity in the arctic or polar regions, the invasion of different species may also trigger a negative effect on local ecosystems. There’s no telling what kind of effect this will have on the many migrating species as well. Aggressive evolution is just one possibility.
The one big loser if things continue to warm could very well be the tropics. Cheung, who is an associate professor at the UBC Fisheries Centre as well as co-author of the study, put it plain as day, “The tropics will be the overall losers.”
The bluntness is not an exaggeration. The loss of marine and plant life in the region is more than likely to drive local extinctions and affect communities in the area, negatively impacting not just the local ecosystems, but livelihood and living conditions as well. The research estimated the rate of migration could, at worse, happen at 26 km of migration per decade, especially if the earth continues to warm the estimated three degree Celsius by 2100. At best though, the migration could happen at 15 km per decade. But this better scenario, largely dependent on the idea that the earth will warm by a mere one degree Celsius. Either way, it’s going to deliver a devastating loss to fishing communities and the ecosystem.
(Photo courtesy of Derek Keats)
What a crock! The headline reads fish are disappearing but the study PREDICTS fish will disappear IF temperatures rise as models predict. However the models have failed and there has been no warming in 18 years.
Precisely. Not one climate scientist prediction has come true thus far so why would we belive yet another modelled could be, may be projection.
Worse, because Mother Gaia is refusing to abide by their catastrophic modelled predictions of seal level rise, increasing sea temperatures, rising atmospheric temperatures, increase hurricanes, more drought, more rain, etc etc they have now taken to doing re-analysis of the data. Which effectively means they are adjusting the data to fit their models.
It’s criminal.
Meant sea level rise not seal! However seal levels are also pretty damn high. 🙂
woe is we
Climate change “believers” lie and exaggerate because what climate scientist has ever said the “scientific method” is what keeps them from agreeing a coming CO2 global climate crisis is “proven” or “100% certain”? If you “believers” love the planet and the billions of innocent children you condemn you would be joining the denier voting majority in demanding science put an end to this costly debate and finally agree beyond; “could be” the end of days.
Maybe you’re right, but first I need to understand your point. But first, exhibiting competency in the English language must happen before that can occur. For now, all I can do is speculate that your English teacher and your science teacher were the same person.
lie? exaggerate?
I have been snorkeling the Caribbean for 18 years and have watched the fish and coral population plummet dramatically. Seeing is believing. I resided next to NOAA reef surveyors for several years who returned to the same habitat and chronicled the drastic impact of sea temperature rise. Each year they were more alarmed by their findings.
I am a believer after perusing your senseless diatribe that you are on crack. Seek some medical help. Or maybe you are on another planet. Enjoy it. Alone.
do you actually support your own denial? just curious. we have people like you on our block that rely on decades old government brainwashing. maybe you fit the profile. snorkel the caribbean lately? putting words in ” ” doesn’t make you a voice, it only reinforces your shallow ignorance.
Denying reality is on the run, unbelievable there are still deniers when every knowledgeable person has come to the conclusion; science and just personal observation, can see reality. Time to act is now, we can make a difference, don’t let greed and selfish agendas prevent a better future, for our children and their children. Why would you not err on the side of caution? Besides, the evidence is irrefutable
Ever heard of Popper and falsifiability? That’s the backbone of science and the scientific method. There’s never a 100% in science, only “could be”‘s.
Please note, it’s the University of British Columbia, Canada not just Columbia.
It is estimated that over 99.9% of all species that ever lived are extinct (From Wikipedia).
Since last ice age 18,000 years ago when hundreds of thousands of cubic miles of ice were stacked up on the continents as glaciers, sea level was 120 metres (390 ft) lower, locations that today support coral reefs were left high and dry, and coastlines were miles farther outward (from Wikipedia).
The 390 ft of sea level rise was/is caused by a warming climate.
Climate change is a natural phenomenon, has been changing since the Earth has had an atmosphere.
A bit like saying that because death is inevitable, murder is justified.
I am surprised to see the tired and fatuous denier pap in here. I had thought–hoped–we’d moved beyond this to look for solutions.