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Oxygen-starved fish to shrink significantly due to global warming

Posted on: October 1st, 2012

Fish are likely to get smaller on average by 2050 because global warming will cut the amount of oxygen in the oceans in a shift that may also mean dwindling catches, according to a study on Sunday.

Average maximum body weights for 600 types of marine fish, such as cod, plaice, halibut and flounder, would contract by 14-24 percent by 2050 from 2000 under a scenario of a quick rise in greenhouse gas emissions, it said.

“The reductions in body size will affect whole ecosystems,” lead author William Cheung of the University of British Columbia in Canada, told Reuters of the findings in the journal Nature Climate Change.

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  • catnip24

    total bull. the antarctica’s ice is thicker than ever measured. these global warming alarmists need to find some other bogus campaign to spread their propaganda.

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  • fliteking

    This is just another flawed global warming ‘study’.

    During the Medieval Warming Period, the last go around of ‘global warming’, everyone prospered and food was aplenty.

    Fish were likely much larger too.

    Liberals are idiots.

  • CaptTurbo

    Psssst, don’t tell those idiots but we are now in a global cooling cycle.

  • http://www.facebook.com/jim.simpson.359 Jim Simpson

    You can’t be serious about posting this article. From the CS Monitor no less – former principled magazine, now owned and operated by the Left.

    • klem

      This paper is getting alot of attention. The climate alarmist religion is full of people who just eat up this stuff. They were never very good at science.

  • http://profile.yahoo.com/BSXOJSGY2CFNGV44B2DDP2AROY Bobgood1

    I don’t know why this keeps re-surfacing. Global warming was a way for Environmentalists to get money out of the Gov. for Research & ” Study.” It has bee proven all over the Globe to be a Hoax, just like Carbon Footprint & Green House Gas. A way to “Black Mail,” World Governments.

  • http://profile.yahoo.com/OOKK3KBK7M2DX5OKOV7ODZ3QTA Jay

    I love global warming. On Earth Day I turn all my lights on, idle my truck and have a bonfire of old tires in the backyard just before my annual trek to Canada to club baby seals.

  • http://profile.yahoo.com/XNCEW6BL6GHCAZWKJHAKHAFL7Y BARBARA

    That’s really funny. These guys don’t know what the left hand is doing! It was just reported that the Antarctic ice cap is the biggest it has ever been in recorded history. Kindly have them explain how ice is formed in warm water? Then have them explain why Al “the Dink” Gore had advised someone not to invest in alternate energy as it doesn”t pay? The last thing you need to ask is why we humans are causing this so-called global warming when there was only a million or so people on the earth when the last ice age cap over much of the world melted…reindeer farts, mastodon belches????

  • klem

    heres a bit of info on Dr. William Cheung ” After working in WWF Hong Kong for two years, he moved to Vancouver
    and completed his PhD in Resource Management and Environmental Studies
    in the UBC Fisheries Centre in 2007. He then worked as a postdoctoral
    fellow in the Sea Around Us project for two years. From 2009 to 2011, he was Lecturer in Marine Ecosystem Services in the School of Environmental Sciences, University of East Anglia in the UK.”

    Get a grip folks, his environmental background make his conclusions suspect. With credentials like that, what would you expect him to conclude, that fish will grow larger?

  • klem

    And notice that the news service is Reuters? Reuters is owned by wealthy Toronto people who have invested heavily in green technologies. Reuters is by far the biggest green advocacy news service in the world today. Reuters, oy.

    • moberndorf

      Reuters has always been far left, and they’ve gotten worse in the last few years.

  • Where has the truth gone

    Could it be that fish are getting smaller because of over fishing? We are catching them at an earlier age.

  • dad666

    Global warming is a hoax. When will these nuitballs go away and recognize that they are shooting blanks. WE DON’T LISTEN TO YOU ANYMORE FOOLS !!!!!

  • moberndorf

    Amazing that the radical leftists who pose as professors at institutions of what used to be higher learning still think they can fool the public into believing global warming is real. The only thing shrinking is the number of people who a) believe in global warming; and b) think “professors” are anything but egotistical, elitist con men.

  • John Brashear

    no one ever seems to speak of the SUN’s role in Earths temperature changes, we have been experiencing MASSIVE solar flares and SUN spot activity, which accounts for 99.9% of ANY temperature changes in the earth, the sun emits 1100 watts of power per square foot of earths surface, that’s well over 1000 times more energy than man could possibly produce or use currently, when the “Facts” contain the real reasons for temperature changes, then and ONLY then will people start listening.

  • John Brashear

    next time some Liberal Progressive starts ranting on CO2 and Global warming, ask them if they know how much CO2 is in the atmosphere…..390 Parts per MILLION, up from 280 parts per Million in 1700…..yes, then ask them to do the math….and tell the rest of us just how a trace gas, can conduct so much additional HEAT in such a low concentration…….