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Major Climate Report Warns of Severe Damage to the World’s Oceans

This is why it's so hard to discuss climate change with a yeasayer. You ask a simple question about whether the price of shrimp is going up faster than inflation and you get a tapdance full of "if"s and "in all likelihood" but scrupulously avoids giving you a direct answer.

A simple, "no the price of shrimp is not skyrocketing" is all you needed to say. Even admitting it's not showing any sign of skyrocketing yet along with the doom and gloom would have been nice. But why muddy the message?

In fact the website I checked shows increases in the price of shrimp has lagged behind other meat products like beef and lamb. But I suppose they'll be out of reach for me too in what, 20-30 years? LOL. It's always 20-30 years. Soon enough to generate fear but far enough away that no one will remember if it turns out to be complete BS (like all the past ones).

No shrimp today: Maine's waters are warming and it's costing fishermen money Scientists: Cancel Maine Shrimp Season Again Because Of Rising Ocean Temperatures – ThinkProgress Warming Oceans May Threaten Krill, a Cornerstone of the Antarctic Ecosystem - The New York Times New England shrimp won't be available at all this year From the first link
Maine's fishing industry has been declining for years due to factors like overfishing and increased regulation, but there's another culprit eating away at profits: Maine's ocean waters are warming -- and it's killing northern shrimp.
Fisherman are on the front lines and seeing the effects.
 
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NOAA while a well known data source is also problematic. NOAA will often publish results that when investigated are by their own admissions not correct. In particular in reference to the change in the ocean's pH I direct you to this page which discusses NOAA's conclusion as to the ability to measure the change in the ocean's pH over the last 100 years.

Quality of pH Measurements in the NODC Data Archives

For convenience I will excerpt the relevant segments, feel free to visit the website yourself to confirm.

"For example, anthropogenic carbon dioxide (CO2) has caused a pH decrease of approximately 0.1, which is about a 26% increase in the hydrogen ion concentration over the past 100 years. Monitoring these small changes requires very sensitive and reliable observations." (NOAA website)

"The data collected prior to 1989 are typically not well documented and their metadata is incomplete; therefore, such data are of unknown and probably variable quality. The reasons for this are manifold (see next section). The uncertainty of these older pH measurements is rarely likely to be less than 0.03 in pH, and could easily be as large as 0.2 in pH. This data set is thus not at all well-suited to showing a change of 0.1 in pH over the last 100 years" (NOAA website)

These statements from NOAA therefore must be carefully reviewed, often the press releases NOAA creates are contradicted by their own information. This is not to say that the oceans pH has not changed over time, it is entirely possible that it has happened. Currently there is no scientific measurements that indicate that is the case, there are models, and theories, but until there is proof from measurements over time to validate those theories they must be treated as possibilities not certainties.
 
We'll all be dead in 12 years. I heard it from a 16 yo girl so it must be true.

China's overseas ventures include hundreds of electric power plants that burn coal, which is a significant emitter of the carbon scientifically linked to climate change. Edward Cunningham, a specialist on China and its energy markets at Harvard University, tells NPR that China is building or planning more than 300 coal plants in places as widely spread as Turkey, Vietnam, Indonesia, Bangladesh, Egypt and the Philippines.

Days before the forum with its "clean and green" theme, the latest Chinese-built coal plant opened in Pakistan.

China Building Hundreds Of Coal-Fired Power Plants Abroad : NPR

In the 13th Five-Year Plan from 2016, six to eight nuclear reactors are to be approved each year.

China Nuclear Power | Chinese Nuclear Energy - World Nuclear Association

India will not be able to meet its Paris climate agreement commitments in the coming years if it carries through with plans to build nearly 370 coal-fired power plants, a new study finds.

India’s Coal Plant Plans Conflict with Climate Commitments - Eos

According to a report presented by the Department of Atomic Energy (DAE) to India’s parliament, there are currently 21 new nuclear power reactors expected to be set up within the country by 2031. These will have a combined total installed capacity of 15,700MW. ...Currently India has 22 nuclear reactors

China Nuclear Power | Chinese Nuclear Energy - World Nuclear Association

Coal isn't going away. Neither is nuclear. China is switching coal plants next to big cities to natural gas because of the smog, All in on fracking.

We are not the problem anymore. Since pulling out of the Paris Accords we have cut our emissions. Most of the nations still in the accord saw emissions rise.
 
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