Tuesday, August 6, 2013

Fish vote with their fins


Unlike terrestrial flora and fauna, which are heavily invested in their particular ecological niches and the locations of those niches, oceanic fauna can move fairly quickly.  And that means that they can respond when the conditions to which they have become ecologically accustomed change such that they are no longer existing in an optimal state for their particular biomic needs.

So they do move.  And a big study shows that the vast majority of them are moving poleward, where the waters are colder than where they've been living.  And what this says is, for the skeptical and also for those who want it explained simply, is that the climate is changing in one direction, and this particular phenologic factor is predominantly changing in the way it would be expected to change in response.  Which means you can try to argue all you want about pauses and station siting and clouds and climate model flaws, but when it comes down to what nature is doing, nature is doing what we would expect nature to do if the world is getting warmer.

So go suck eggs, @ClimateDepot. The fish are voting, and they're voting that you're WRONG.

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