I grew up, and live on the Atlantic ocean in central Florida. I studies oceanography, and have long studied the local ocean ecosystem. The Atlantic Ocean around Florida has dropped in temperature by several degrees over the last 20 years.
In fact, it was well known in the late 1980’s that you would never see a great white shark in the Florida waters, because the water was 2 warm for them. Now, great whites are common along the Florida coast.
Even that is pretty grim. Any of these rapid temperature shifts in these regions can lead to lots of marine life dying off since they can’t adapt to the temperature or move (unlike the newly Floridian sharks).
You do understand that your observation – which is essentially a single data point – is meaningless in any discussion of climate change – right?? Of course you do! You “study oceanography”!!
I grew up, and live on the Atlantic ocean in central Florida. I studies oceanography, and have long studied the local ocean ecosystem. The Atlantic Ocean around Florida has dropped in temperature by several degrees over the last 20 years.
In fact, it was well known in the late 1980’s that you would never see a great white shark in the Florida waters, because the water was 2 warm for them. Now, great whites are common along the Florida coast.
Even that is pretty grim. Any of these rapid temperature shifts in these regions can lead to lots of marine life dying off since they can’t adapt to the temperature or move (unlike the newly Floridian sharks).
You do understand that your observation – which is essentially a single data point – is meaningless in any discussion of climate change – right?? Of course you do! You “study oceanography”!!
So great white sharks moving into new territories couldn’t have anything to do with their natural food sources disappearing due to over fishing?
I live in the middle of the Atlantic and have only seen data that points to increased temperatures, can you share your data source?
Watch ‘Chasing Coral’ on Netflix.
That is interesting