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A 1,000 Mile Stretch Of The Pacific Ocean Has Heated Up Several Degrees And Scientists Don’t Know Why

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Submitted by Michael Snyder via The End of The American Dream blog,

According to two University of Washington scientific research papers that were recently released, a 1,000 mile stretch of the Pacific Ocean has warmed up by several degrees, and nobody seems to know why this is happening.  This giant “blob” of warm water was first observed in late 2013, and it is playing havoc with our climate.  And since this giant “blob” first showed up, fish and other sea creatures have been dying in absolutely massive numbers.  So could there be a connection?  And what is going to happen if the Pacific Ocean continues to warm up?  Could we potentially be facing the greatest holocaust of sea life in the Pacific that anyone has ever observed?  If so, what would that mean for the food chain and for our food supply?

For a large portion of the Pacific Ocean to suddenly start significantly heating up without any known explanation is a really big deal.  The following information about this new research comes from the University of Washington

“In the fall of 2013 and early 2014 we started to notice a big, almost circular mass of water that just didn’t cool off as much as it usually did, so by spring of 2014 it was warmer than we had ever seen it for that time of year,” said Nick Bond, a climate scientist at the UW-based Joint Institute for the Study of the Atmosphere and Ocean, a joint research center of the UW and the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

 

Bond coined the term “the blob” last June in his monthly newsletter as Washington’s state climatologist. He said the huge patch of water – 1,000 miles in each direction and 300 feet deep – had contributed to Washington’s mild 2014 winter and might signal a warmer summer.

It would be one thing if scientists knew why this was happening and had an explanation for it.

But they don’t.

In fact, according to the Washington Post, they are calling this something that is “totally new”…

Scientists have been astonished at the extent and especially the long-lasting nature of the warmth, with one NOAA researcher saying, “when you see something like this that’s totally new you have opportunities to learn things you were never expecting.”

The following map comes from the NOAA, and it shows what this giant “blob” looks like…

Pacific Ocean Anomaly

According to CBS News, ocean temperatures inside this blob have risen anywhere from two to seven degrees Fahrenheit above normal…

This warm blob, which is about 2 to 7 degrees Fahrenheit (1 to 4 degrees Celsius) warmer than the usual temperature for this region, means the winter air that crosses over the Pacific Ocean wasn’t cooled as much as it normally would be. That, in turn, spelled warmer, dryer conditions for the West Coast.

Meanwhile, while this has been going on, scientists have also been noticing that sea creatures in the Pacific have been dying in record numbers.

In fact, last summer I wrote an article entitled “Why are massive numbers of sea creatures dying along the west coast right now?

Since then, things have continued to get even worse.

For instance, it was recently reported that the number of sea lions washing up on Southern California beaches is at an all-time record high…

A record 2,250 sea lions, mostly pups, have washed up starving and stranded on Southern California beaches so far this year, a worsening phenomenon blamed on warming seas in the region that have disrupted the marine mammals’ food supply.

 

The latest tally, reported on Monday by the National Marine Fisheries Service, is 20 times the level of strandings averaged for the same three-month period over the past decade and twice the number documented in 2013, the previous worst winter season recorded for Southern California sea lions.

And of course fish are being deeply affected as well.  Sardines have declined to their lowest level in six decades, and National Geographic says that a whole host of tiny fish species at the bottom of the food chain are dying off rapidly…

Since the 1950s, researchers every year have dropped nets 1,000 feet (300 meters) down to catalog marine life many miles off California. Most track commercially important species caught by the fishing industry. But J. Anthony Koslow tallies fish often credited with keeping marine systems functioning soundly—tiny midwater bristlemouths, the region’s most abundant marine species, as well as viperfish, hatchetfish, razor-mouthed dragonfish, and even minnow-like lampfish.

 

All are significant parts of the seafood buffet that supports life in the eastern Pacific, and all are declining dramatically with the vertical rise of low-oxygen water.

 

“If it was a 10 percent change, it wouldn’t have been worth noting, but they’ve declined by 63 percent,” says Koslow, of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography.

So if the bottom of the food chain is experiencing a catastrophic collapse, what is that going to mean for the rest of the food chain in the Pacific Ocean?

In turn, what is that going to mean for the seafood industry and for the price of seafood in our grocery stores?

Some really strange things are happening on the other side of the Pacific right now as well.

Over in Japan, the media is buzzing about the recent mass beaching of 150 melon-headed whales.  A similar incident was observed just six days before the great earthquake and tsunami of 2011.  The following comes from the Japan Times

The mass beaching of over 150 melon-headed whales on Japan’s shores has fueled fears of a repeat of a seemingly unrelated event in the country — the devastating 2011 earthquake and tsunami that killed over 18,000 people.

 

Despite a lack of scientific evidence linking the two events, a flurry of online commentators have pointed to the appearance of around 50 melon-headed whales — a species that is a member of the dolphin family — on Japan’s beaches six days before the monster quake, which unleashed towering tsunami and triggered a nuclear disaster.

Very strange stuff.

For our entire lives, we have been able to take for granted that our oceans would always be stable and healthy.

But now it appears that things may be changing.

 

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Wed, 04/15/2015 - 08:55 | 5993929 JuliaS
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I sure miss the static never-changing climate the Earth had enjoyed for billions of years before the pesky humans came around and started burning shit.

Thu, 04/16/2015 - 20:37 | 6001153 MeelionDollerBogus
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I sure miss when people could do math so we can actually calculate these changes are faster than nature ever could do, or ever did.

Wed, 04/15/2015 - 09:06 | 5993969 MEAN BUSINESS
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What would be the point? The volcanos and the sun are going to do what they are going to do. They don't included asteroid impacts in their models either or do they?

What else ya got that isn't explained by your username?

Wed, 04/15/2015 - 10:34 | 5994397 N2OJoe
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Wow guys, why is the Pacific heating up? I'm sure it has nothing to do with that nuke plant pissing radiation into it for the last several years...

Wed, 04/15/2015 - 12:40 | 5995116 cnmcdee
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Zerohedge is the <only> source talking about this at this time.

Here is the important point : a 1000 mile stretch of the pacific ocean has heated by 4 degrees  (more than normal).  In order for a pool of water to heat that much something very significant has happened.

When you do the kilojoule calculation we are talking like 8,000,000 cubic kilometers of water / 8.00 e 15 cubic meters * 1000 kg / cubic meter = 8.000 e 18 kg of water * 4 degress * 4.2 kj/kg/degree celcius

1.3504 e 23 Joules (over 6 months - 15.552 million seconds) = 8.683 e 15 watts  Or 8.68 Petawatts over an area roughly 2 Trillion square meters

 = 4.320 KW / Sq meter (Continuously)

The most energy incident from the sun on the earth after passing through the atmosphere is about 1 KW / Sq Meter.

What this means is that something has heated up the entire pacific ocean 4X the ability of the sun to do so.  Someone in the comments section mentioned 'I vote Corium' or something like that.

Either we have something right out of star trek (explaining the deleted threads possibly) or we have a 25 - 100 mile rip in the tectonic plate and the coastal cities are fucked (explaining the deleted threads possibly)

However anyone who has studied thermoclines this may be happening only to the first layer (100 meters) and the rest of the ocean is not really that heated.  We are assuming that the <entire basin to the bottom> is heated.

 

Wed, 04/15/2015 - 14:34 | 5995753 VangelV
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The problem for the alarmist side is that we are now into year 18 without statistically sigificant global warming.  (while I do not believe that a global average temperature trend has much meaning the alarmists do)  And to add to the confusion Obama has been pointing out that the economic recovery is weak because of colder temperatures for the past two years.  There is much confusion and panic among the IPCC and golobal warming crowd becuase the science is showing that the AGW hypothesis is not correct.  

Wed, 04/15/2015 - 15:49 | 5996074 MEAN BUSINESS
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@JuliaS. I was replying to smallgovnow2's comment about computer models not including solar/volcanic activity.

@VAndelV There is ZERO confusion regarding the "the pause" says the IPCC because there isn't one. If you have a link where the IPCC recants their position on "the Pause" please provide it. Until then this IPCC press release stands:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bZONwnqWFe8&feature=player_embedded#t=4675

I recommend you watch as John Parker of The Economist asks about "the pause" then Chris Field, WG2 lead author, replies followed by Michelle Jarraud, Sec?Gen of the World Meteorological Organization.

You and I may be confused, IPCC not so much.

 

Wed, 04/15/2015 - 17:40 | 5996498 indio007
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IPCC's DATA says there is a pause , their spin notwithstanding.

Not their data means a thing as there sample size is several orders of magnitude to small at EVERY data point. Until they can cover at minimum 100th of the earth's surface with thermometers there is pretty much no data. Thermal satelites don't measure absolute temperture BTW..

GI->GO

Wed, 04/15/2015 - 18:30 | 5996685 mkkby
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This can all be explained by wind patterns or currents, which push warmer surface water up against the coast.  If you've ever swam in the ocean, you know that it is often warm on the surface and cold once you dive down a few feet.

I'm sure it's happened before many times, but nobody noticed.

But hey -- let's go full retard and blame it on fuku, star wars aliens or a parting of the earth's crust.  Most of you fuck tards think the world is always about to end, as predicted by some spooky religous nonsense.

Wed, 04/15/2015 - 21:16 | 5997173 MEAN BUSINESS
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which data would that be? Link please. Wait, let me guess, satellite data for the troposphere? You know, that Suspicious Observers / Lord Monkton  thingie?

If you look at my profile, LULZ, I do understand the concept of an assay. You are suggesting that 10s of thousands of well educated scientists who contribute to the articles that go into the Assessment Reports don't ??? 

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Thu, 04/16/2015 - 20:35 | 6001147 MeelionDollerBogus
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DATA says no pause.

Thu, 04/16/2015 - 20:35 | 6001132 MeelionDollerBogus
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No, we're into 18 years of statistically significant and measurable warming, visible, measured, measurable, every single year, which is serious, but this is even warmer by a long shot.

http://arstechnica.com/science/2015/03/warm-arctic-winter-starts-sea-ice...

http://arstechnica.com/science/2015/02/newsflash-the-greenhouse-effect-r...

http://www.nasa.gov/topics/earth/features/2011-temps.html

NASA Finds 2011 Ninth-Warmest Year on Record

http://www.nasa.gov/topics/earth/features/2010-warmest-year.html

2010 and 2005 tied for warmest years EVER on record

Wed, 04/15/2015 - 16:54 | 5996258 Matt
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1000 Km * 1000 Km * 0.10 Km (100 meters deep) ~= 100,000 Km^3, not 8 million cubic kilometers. 

 

EDIT: 1 Km^3 is 1000 * 1000 * 1000 =  billion cubic meters of water. 1 cubic meter of water is 1000 litres. 1 Trillion litres of sea water, weighing 1 billion metric tonnes.

17 KJ per Kg to get to 4 celsius rise. 1 trillion Kg. 17 QJ. 6 months * 30 days = 180 days. At 12 hours of sunlight per day, that's 2160 hours * 60 minutes * 60 seconds = 7,776,000 seconds.

requires a net energy gain continously of 17 quadrillion / 7.776 million = 2 186 214 000 watts, assuming no loss at night.

2 gigawatts divided by 1 million square kilometers is a net gain of 2000 watts per square kilometer continous.

I probably screwed up somewhere. 

EDIT: FTA: "He said the huge patch of water – 1,000 miles in each direction and 300 feet deep – had contributed to Washington’s mild 2014 winter and might signal a warmer summer."

 

 

Thu, 04/16/2015 - 20:33 | 6001125 MeelionDollerBogus
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MUTHAFUCKIN photon torpedoes.

I KNEW it.

Wed, 04/15/2015 - 15:52 | 5996086 Praetorian Guard
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My thoughts exactly!!!

Come join us for free at www.gunsgrubandgold.com

We never censor...

Wed, 04/15/2015 - 09:47 | 5994147 plane jain
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WTF?

There were 7 pages of comments and now there are only two besides mine?

Wed, 04/15/2015 - 09:56 | 5994194 Stumpy4516
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Issues were brought up that the Tylers did not want pushed forward.  What is another name for a harmonica for instance.

Wed, 04/15/2015 - 10:05 | 5994252 plane jain
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So pay a moderator Tyler. I can deal with the wild west style comments, but if you can't then moderate.

Please target the globalreport spammer. Save everyone the downvote clicks. I do like his/her new user name though: chilli sauce.

Wed, 04/15/2015 - 10:35 | 5994403 N2OJoe
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Looks like we're down to 1 page now.

Wed, 04/15/2015 - 10:57 | 5994513 El Vaquero
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No, something else is going on.  I simply brought up the thermohaline circulation, and not as a response to anybody, and that comment is gone. 

Wed, 04/15/2015 - 11:37 | 5994754 Seek_Truth
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"To learn who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize." - Voltaire

-His name was Francis Sawyer, His name was Francis Sawyer, His name was Francis Sawyer...

Wed, 04/15/2015 - 12:57 | 5995230 Toronto Kid
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Mine is gone, response to a poster.  I said there was an earthquake that reduced the circumference of the planet, and suggested the planet might be reacting to that. 

Wed, 04/15/2015 - 21:17 | 5997174 MedPro
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Comments have been disappearing for some time. I joined to comment on Ebola all wiped clean

Wed, 04/15/2015 - 13:33 | 5995392 BuddyEffed
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  1. The harmonica is called many different names, such as: mouth organ, mouth harp, Hobo Harp, French harp, Reckless Tram, harpoon, tin sandwich, blues harp, Mississippi saxophone, or simply harp.
Wed, 04/15/2015 - 14:05 | 5995604 Seek_Truth
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Missed one.

Hint:

Must.not.criticize.those.who.rule.over.you.

Wed, 04/15/2015 - 20:14 | 5997008 BuddyEffed
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Whistleblower?

Times, up.  Enlighten us please.

Wed, 04/15/2015 - 21:15 | 5997168 MedPro
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Concerning the comments

Perhaps we need to seek another playground to play in

Sat, 04/18/2015 - 13:21 | 6006471 conscious being
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Agreed. Any suggestions?

Wed, 04/15/2015 - 09:50 | 5994166 Seek_Truth
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A 700 Comment Thread On Zero Hedge Has Disappeared And Scientists Don’t Know Why

Wed, 04/15/2015 - 09:58 | 5994204 Urban Roman
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Obviously it was caused by Fukushima.

Wed, 04/15/2015 - 15:39 | 5996030 SerenDip
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You might think you are being facetious, but put two and two together: 

1. No one knows where the 3 cores from Fukushima are

2. No one can explain why the Pacific Ocean is exhibiting extraordinary heating

Thu, 04/16/2015 - 20:29 | 6001116 MeelionDollerBogus
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it would take 3000 to 3 million cores to do this - the ocean is HUGE.

Wed, 04/15/2015 - 16:27 | 5996233 MEAN BUSINESS
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Tue, 04/14/2015 - 06:48 | 5989987

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ATTN: Mean Business aka Jo-Jo_the_indian_circus_boy:

Better to Remain Silent and Be Thought a Fool than to Speak and Remove All Doubt.

You're a 20 year old wet behind the ears kid drinking the Gubmint provided AGW Kool-Aid.

Quit while your ahead- devote yourself to agriculture or something beneficial and drop the Goredoctrination.

That is all.

Tue, 04/14/2015 - 08:50 | 5990203

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Revealing, Seek_Truth, that you would reply with a clip from a hollywood movie (I'm sure it's "deep") containing a slur towards ~1B people that don't read your bible.

Say, how do you think The Pope is gonna handle that whole "go forth and multiply" thing in his encyclical on AGW this summer?

 

I wonder how many people here at Zero Hedge had ever heard of Al Gore in 1990. I hadn't.

Tue, 04/14/2015 - 08:58 | 5990218

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Son,

You're out of your league. I couldn't care less what the "pope" does, thinks, says, or spits. You epitomize the unschooled here on ZH. And if you haven't watched the clip, you should- you might find that it will open your eyes to how you come across.

PS- I know I'm repeating myself, but it's better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt

Tue, 04/14/2015 - 09:13 | 5990253

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Still nothing to say about the James Burke clip, just more belittling. It's as boring as your Bibley stuff.

p.s. I heard about Al Gore a few years later when I read Earth In The Balance. You? 

Tue, 04/14/2015 - 09:21 | 5990275

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We all heard the Goracle's lies when yer mammy was still changing your diapers. I have no interest in your James Burp, boy- is that your man crush? Run along now, yer mammy's sure to get cross with ya when she sees ya playin' on the 'puter. Back to the basement for ya. Or go outside and blow some stink off of ya, ya hear?

Tue, 04/14/2015 - 09:58 | 5990381

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I would prefer to let people here speak for themselves. That way I have some chance of getting an intelligent answer.

Haven't you got some little boys to fiddle-about Uncle? Revealing that you like to think of me as "Son"

That is all Creep_Truth

 

Tue, 04/14/2015 - 10:11 | 5990416

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You are brainwashed by shills who call themselves "scientists"- they are not- nothing coulld be further from the truth. You spam every thread with your AGW nonsense, you are constantly derided for doing so, but you are too feeble minded to understand what a fool you make of yourself. You are a 20 year old child according to your profile. That makes you a boy in my book- not a man.

And a gullible one at that. You should be embarrassed of yourself. Your heroes at the IPCC have already been caught in numerous epic lies- that is a fact, as has Al Gore-acle. Keep drinking the Gubmint shill coolaid and see where it gets you. Just another junior "progressive."

PS- There's none so blind as those who will not see.

Tue, 04/14/2015 - 14:08 | 5991231

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Feel free to ask around, I haven't changed my silly profile since I wrote it upon signing up.

"Ist wave X'er"

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Wed, 04/15/2015 - 09:51 | 5994171 plane jain
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The following is NOT mine. But I just copied it to share before all the comments went buh bye.

specific heat of water is 4 Joules/gram*C.

water is about 1 gram per cc so 4 Joules/CC*C.

say 600 Mile circle of water one mile deep is 2 C warmer.  That's 3.14*300**2*1 270,000 Cubic Miles of water or 1EE15 Cubic Meters or 1EE21 CC  or 4 EE 21 Joules to warm up.  

To do that in 6 months, that's 180 Days, 800 hours, or 2.8 Million seconds.  Thats 1.5 EE 15 Watts to achieve.  That's a million Gigawatt

That's about a Million megatonnes of TNT or about 300 Kilotonnes of nuclear explosions per second for 6 months.

 

Wed, 04/15/2015 - 14:02 | 5995588 Road Hazard
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Hmmmm, I wonder if a few thousand spent fuel rods and some reactor cores can produce that sort of heat? What say you, genetically damaged mutants of Tokyo?

Thu, 04/16/2015 - 20:28 | 6001112 MeelionDollerBogus
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No, quite seriously, they can't. You'd need thousands of Fukushimas' worth of fuel rods stuck together / near each other to attempt it

Wed, 04/15/2015 - 10:13 | 5994303 Dr_Snooz
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"It would be one thing if scientists knew why this was happening and had an explanation for it.

But they don’t."

 

In other words, "we know exactly why this is happening, but the powerful special interest causing it will punish us for telling. We'd rather die in an environmental apocalypse than lose our crappy jobs, so get bent."

What could it be?

Fukushima dumping trillions of becquerels of radiation into the open ocean?

HAARP actively manipulating weather patterns and ocean temperatures around the world?

Global warming caused by paying too little tax money to bankers and bureaucrats?

Corporate pollution of the oceans on a massive scale for decades that has finally reached an inflection point?

All of those?

 

Take your pick.

Wed, 04/15/2015 - 11:20 | 5994649 carbonmutant
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Supervolcano?

Thu, 04/16/2015 - 20:26 | 6001099 MeelionDollerBogus
Wed, 04/15/2015 - 11:26 | 5994685 Sages wife
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We've been hacked! Goddamn North Koreans!

Wed, 04/15/2015 - 11:29 | 5994708 Max Steel
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From 350-400 to 14 comments. lol .

Wed, 04/15/2015 - 12:07 | 5994933 DullKnife
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Gotta be cow flatulance.

Wed, 04/15/2015 - 12:17 | 5995003 debunkit
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Many threads' comments have vaporized.  Could it be parent company is talking notice???

Wed, 04/15/2015 - 18:22 | 5996653 viator
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My comments are gone.

Sat, 04/18/2015 - 13:18 | 6006460 conscious being
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My comments are gone.

Wed, 04/15/2015 - 12:32 | 5995078 schnydz
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I'll add this. 

The new study explores the blob’s origins. It finds that it relates to a persistent high-pressure ridge that caused a calmer ocean during the past two winters, so less heat was lost to cold air above. The warmer temperatures we see now aren’t due to more heating, but less winter cooling. source: http://wattsupwiththat.com/2015/04/09/warm-blob-in-pacific-ocean-not-caused-by-climate-change-affects-u-s-weather/

Nothing to do with global warming. Just less cooling over the pacific north west. Instead all that cooling went east hence all the snow from chicago on. 

Wed, 04/15/2015 - 13:57 | 5995553 plane jain
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Link to this story at The Daily Mail;

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3033598/Mystery-blob-Paci...

Before the comments disappeared someone had mentioned the 2011 earthquake shifted the Earth's axis 4 inches.

Link to story about Inuits claiming the planet has shifted:

http://www.thebigwobble.org/2014/12/their-sky-has-changed-inuit-elders.html

 

Wed, 04/15/2015 - 13:58 | 5995564 plane jain
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And the link about the giant volcano under the Pacific.

http://www.sci-news.com/othersciences/geophysics/science-tamu-massif-lar...

Wed, 04/15/2015 - 14:49 | 5995808 A Lunatic
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All of your comments are belong to us..........

Wed, 04/15/2015 - 14:57 | 5995851 fedupwhiteguy
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Quite a few threads have lost their comments. What's up wit dat, Bro?

Thu, 04/16/2015 - 10:35 | 5998647 vie
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Could be software bug.  Could be convenient excuse to silence truth.

Wed, 04/15/2015 - 15:04 | 5995883 Zymurguy
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Most likely a large magnifying glass has been positioned over that spot on the earth by our insect overlords.

Wed, 04/15/2015 - 15:08 | 5995897 Icelandicsaga.....
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Since my comment was zapped.. I will add this .. the blob is still off our shores, now squished up against the coast and extending about 1,000 miles offshore from Mexico up through Alaska, with water about 2 degrees Celsius (3.6 degrees Fahrenheit) warmer than normal. Bond says all the models point to it continuing through the end of this year.

The new study explores the blob’s origins. It finds that it relates to a persistent high-pressure ridge that caused a calmer ocean during the past two winters, so less heat was lost to cold air above. The warmer temperatures we see now aren’t due to more heating, but less winter  http://www.reportingclimatescience.com/news-stories/article/pacific-ocea... or http://www.scienceworldreport.com/articles/24290/20150410/warm-blob-eart... From geophysical research letters site .. Strongly positive temperature anomalies developed in the NE Pacific Ocean during the boreal winter of 2013–14. Based on a mixed layer temperature budget, these anomalies were caused by lower than normal rates of the loss of heat from the ocean to the atmosphere, and of relatively weak cold advection in the upper ocean. Both of these mechanisms can be attributed to an unusually strong and persistent weather pattern featuring much higher than normal sea level pressure over the waters of interest. This anomaly was the greatest observed in this region since at least the 1980s. The region of warm SST anomalies subsequently expanded and reached coastal waters in spring and summer 2014. Impacts on fisheries and regional weather are discussed. It is found that sea surface temperature anomalies in this region affect air temperatures downwind in Washington state.

Wed, 04/15/2015 - 15:12 | 5995916 fockewulf190
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Fat finger. Seems to be the appropriate excuse du jour.

Wed, 04/15/2015 - 15:17 | 5995942 Implied Violins
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Funny how all the geoengineering comments got nuked...too bad I can't laugh.

Wed, 04/15/2015 - 15:36 | 5996023 PTR
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Just happened to watch this today.  Might have some answers:

"Engineered Drought Catastrophe, Target California" - Dane Wigington

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OsYG5emdZp8&feature=youtu.be

 

 

 

 

 

Wed, 04/15/2015 - 17:29 | 5996444 indio007
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Absolutely horseshit. A million thermometers stick in an ocean area that size is nothing other than background noise. They represent a billionth or less of the surface area (nevermind the volume.

 

No useful information can be gained from a 1/10000 signal to noise. This is atleast 2 orders of magnitude beyond that limit.

Climate data has the same problem. They do not have enough thermometers covering the   197 million square miles of the earth's surface. All the thermometers ever made wouldn't cover a sq mile.

Wed, 04/15/2015 - 19:00 | 5996812 geroldfelix
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“Scientists Don’t Know Why”. They know, but they ain’t sayin’.

There’s not one explanation but several beginning with atmospheric nuclear bomb testing in the 1950’s & 60’s which began killing CO2-absorbing phytoplankton, the beginning of the marine food chain (now down 40%), that provides half our oxygen plus the effects of pollution & plastic and Chernobyl culminating with Fukushima’s aerial fall-out in 2011 and radioactive ocean currents now reaching the West coast. They know, but they want to keep us in the dark to prevent panic since there’s nowhere on earth to escape to ...

http://geroldblog.com/2015/04/11/fukushima-forever-the-pacific-ocean-is-...

 

 

Thu, 04/16/2015 - 20:23 | 6001074 MeelionDollerBogus
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It's globalwarmingshimaZilla!!!eleventy!!

Thu, 04/16/2015 - 23:05 | 6001657 californiagirl
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Three "blob" stories were sent to me before it ever posted on Zerohedge.  It seems to have gone viral.  Unfortunately, it is inaccurate.  Since my previous full response was wiped out, along with pages of other zerohedge comments, I am not going to repost it in full.  Instead here is an article that tells how they got it wrong. http://cliffmass.blogspot.com/2015/04/media-miscommunication-about-blob....

Also, isn't this pretty much a Modoki El Nino and not exactly "strange"? Fortunately for us Californians, and not the seal pups that have died off in mass during the 82/83 and 97/98 El Ninos, it seems to be progressing toward a medium to strong El Nino. http://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/products/CFSv2/htmls/glbSSTe3Mon.html  The seals will survive like they have many times before.

Is the Modoki going traditional El Nino?  http://econintersect.com/pages/weather/weather.php?post=201503234342

Fri, 04/17/2015 - 00:50 | 6001863 SixIsNinE
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Speaking of the El Nino, please refer back to Bruce Krastings post last month about Typhoon Pam, and the strength of which was enough to drastically change the weather system in a hurry, bringing an El Nino soon - http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-03-17/pam-was-so-big-she

- as for another post with the comments being lost, I never take it for granted that they will be there - copy & paste is my friend  :)

I do hope the reason for these lost comment threads is determined though... really missed reading RAD MJ's recent treatise... the Death Control Mechanisms are more lucid than ever !

 

Sat, 04/18/2015 - 11:49 | 6006282 screw face
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