Panama’s ocean upwelling fails for the first time in 40 years

[John Nissen]

There seem to be global effects at play, with lessons to be learnt. John 

Alarm: Panama’s ocean upwelling fails for the first time in 40 years - Earth.com https://share.google/RZMhTua13Th5IxfUn 

[Tom Goreau]

Thanks, John!

 

Upwelling failure in the Gulf of Panama, a symptom of global warming, is not as unprecedented as this PR headline implies!

 

We saw dramatic decreases in Gulf of Panama upwelling in the El Niño years 1982, 1987 and 1998, linked to coral bleaching, with upwelling seasons becoming very short or nonexistent. These extreme events show up in the temperature data they present in the new paper.

 

They are getting worse as we warned would happen 20 years ago:

T.J. Goreau R.L. Hayes, & D. McAllister, 2005, Regional patterns of sea surface temperature rise: implications for global ocean circulation change and the future of coral reefs and fisheries, WORLD RESOURCE REVIEW, 17: 350-374

 

I’ve tracked Panamanian Sea Surface Temperature patterns since satellite infrared radiometer records began in 1982, and before (the first Panamanian marine scientist, from a family of Indigenous woman teachers, coral expert Dr. Nora Isabel Arango de Urriola y Goreau, was my mother: https://www.globalcoral.org/memoriam-dr-nora-goreau-april-25-1921-december-18-2016/ ).

 

Thomas J. F. Goreau, PhD
President, Global Coral Reef Alliance

Chief Scientist, Biorock Technology Inc., Blue Regeneration SL

Technical Advisor, Blue Guardians Programme, SIDS DOCK

37 Pleasant Street, Cambridge, MA 02139

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Phone: (1) 857-523-0807 (leave message)

 

Books:

Geotherapy: Innovative Methods of Soil Fertility Restoration, Carbon Sequestration, and Reversing CO2 Increase

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Innovative Methods of Marine Ecosystem Restoration

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On the Nature of Things: The Scientific Photography of Fritz Goro

 

Geotherapy: Regenerating ecosystem services to reverse climate change

 

No one can change the past, everybody can change the future

 

It’s much later than we think, especially if we don’t think

 

Those with their heads in the sand will see the light when global warming and sea level rise wash the beach away

 

“When you run to the rocks, the rocks will be melting, when you run to the sea, the sea will be boiling”, Peter Tosh, Jamaica’s greatest song writer

 

“The Earth is not dying, she is being killed” U. Utah Phillips

 

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