The Climate News Network (CNN) didn’t mean to do it. They tried to sell the only possible takeaway as planetary doom and gloom. That’s their job, after all. But the good news is impossible to hide. The oceans are teeming with an abundance of new life.
And the piece assumes that what is happening is our fault.
“While the researchers are still working to unpick exactly what the changes mean, what is clear, they said, is that the changes are being driven by human-induced climate change.
There is no proof that Mann-made warming exists in a meaningful capacity or is responsible for the boom in ocean life, but let’s take it at face value for our discussion. The oceans are getting greener, and while they don’t know the long-term impact, it’s a net positive for ocean life.
More than 56% of the world’s oceans have changed color to an extent that cannot be explained by natural variability, said a team of researchers, led by scientists from the National Oceanography Center in the UK and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the US, in a statement.
Tropical oceans close to the equator in particular have become greener in the past two decades, reflecting changes in their ecosystems, according to the study published Wednesday in the journal Nature.
The color of the ocean is derived from the materials found in its upper layers. For example, a deep blue sea will have very little life in it, whereas a green color means there are ecosystems there, based on phytoplankton, plant-like microbes which contain chlorophyll. The phytoplankton form the basis of a food web which supports larger organisms such as krill, fish, seabirds and marine mammals.
You naughty human. A decades-long increase in ocean life. How dare you? But hey, since the seas are allegedly rising, they’ll have plenty of room to move. More Ocean food stock, healthier fish, it all sounds like a solid for planet Earth whether you were involved or not.
The only problem appears to be spin by “experts” paid to figure out how natural processes can be blamed on people so the progressives can raise their taxes.
James Taylor writing at WUWT, notes that it isn’t just CNN trying to peddle an ocean bounty as bad news for planet Earth and its various inhabitants.
“Climate Change Is Literally Changing the Ocean’s Color” – The Daily Beast.
“World’s oceans changing color due to climate breakdown, study suggests” – The Guardian
“Climate change is making our oceans change color, new research finds” – CNN
“Oceans are changing color, likely due to climate change, researchers find” – CBN News
“Climate Change Is Getting So Bad that the Ocean Is Changing Color” – The Byte
It makes sense if you are a member of the Climate Cult. Nothing disproves their mythology, and everything supports it. Cooling is a sign of warming. The greening of the earth and record crop output is a sign of impending starvation, climate migration, and doom. The steady post-ice age rise of the sea will accelerate rapidly any minute now. Or maybe now. Wait, now!
We’ve been playing that game for thirty years, and the only change is a flatlining of sea level (at least on our coastline) for over a decade.
But since nothing contradicts the approved narrative, and tithing to this faith-based scientism is mandatory, the good news that the oceans have benefited from the natural rise in CO2 can’t be anything but a sign of the climate apocalypse and entirely your fault.
HT | WUWT
