It’s always something with these cultists, and, if you had badgered your neighbor more perhaps they would have stopped using fossil fuels and harassed government officials to enact more taxes and citizen controls
Fears grow that climate change could put an end to fishing in Ireland
When he left school, Darragh McGuinness knew his vocation: to join a fishing crew. But with the Atlantic warming up, the 23-year-old Irishman now fears the job that has sustained his family for generations could disappear.
“It’s a huge problem,” McGuinness said from the cockpit of the Atlantic Challenge, moored in the port of Killybegs in north-west Ireland. “This could put an end to fishing, in Ireland at least”.
The sharp rise in temperatures in the North Atlantic this summer has increased the pressure on a sector already in difficulty.
It has heightened fears of a change in fish migrations, which would push certain species northwards towards colder waters. The blow could be fatal. (snip)
Climate change is having a “dramatic effect” on stocks of white fish, such as cod, which prefer cold waters, adds Sean O’Donoghue, director of the Killybegs Fishermen’s Organisation.
He fears it is “a matter of time” before the so-called pelagic fish, such as mackerel, blue whiting and herring, move north: “If the water continues to warm up, we could end up with very few fish”.
Things happen during a Holocene warm period. And then the climate will flip and cool. That’s the nature of the Earth. Did fish only hang at the poles during the hot periods? Were they nowhere else? Things will be fine, people, chill.
