Sheffield Ocean Defence Newswire Archive

A night of whalepunk to raise much needed funds for Sea Shepherd -  http://www.seashepherd.org/

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In a new study marine scientists have warn that the rate of ocean acidification presently occurring is unprecedented in the last 300 million years. This is due to dissolving carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, much of which human activity has contributed over the last 200 years through the use of fossil fuels. The extent and rate of acidification enhances the prospect for a mass marine extinction event this century. Research in paleoclimatology and oceanography has revealed that anthropogenic climate change is driving Ocean Acidification threatening marine ecosystems.

Ocean acidification has been called the 'evil twin' of climate change with marine scientists warning climate negotiators in Durban of the necessity for climate mitigation action in December 2011, along with a statement on the IUCN website urging action to cut carbon emissions. New research in November 2011 from Australia's Antarctic Climate and Ecosystems Cooperative Research Centre showed the Southern ocean is warming and freshening.

Marine scientists warn ocean acidification is already impacting marine food webs which will lead to substantial changes in commercial fish stocks, threatening protein supply and food security for millions of people. The Northwest Oyster Die-off from 2006-2008 in the USA highlights the growing impact on commercial fisheries. The United Nations Environment Program estimates that 3 billion people use fish protein in their diet, with one billion people dependent on subsistence fishing as a primary food source.

Related: International Programme on the State of the Ocean (IPSO) | The Ocean in a high CO2 world | Takver: Ocean acidification articles | UNEP report - Environmental Consequences of Ocean Acidification: a threat to Food Security (PDF)

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Sunday August 7th, 6:30PM
Upstairs in The Rutland Arms, Brown Street, Sheffield. S1 2BS

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A new report from the International Programme on the State of the Ocean, or IPSO, written by 27 top experts on the oceans. They warn the oceans are in a state of dying from multiple causes, all of them human. Climate change is not coming. It is here. Carbon is not only flooding the atmosphere but the deep sea. Two clips, interview with paleoclimatologist Dr. Peter Ward, and new climate song.

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Update from Captain Paul Watson, founder of Seasheperd, in this short speech plus Q and A recorded after the Premiere in Vancouver, Canada of new biographical feature film: "Eco-Pirate: The Paul Watson Story". With Trish Dolman writer/director. Victory over Japanese whaling in Antarctic? On to Libya. Lawless seas, overfishing, protection of marine mammals. From Radio Ecoshock 110603 25 minutes.

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The people of the world must now demand that the Chernobyl Option

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Come join us for a screen of the Whale Warrior - Pirate for the Sea in Sheffield on April 8th.

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Come join us for a screen of the Whale Warrior - Pirate for the Sea in Sheffield on April 8th.

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Yesterday at about 2.30pm Shell began to lower "Jack - 1" - one of two survey barges currently in Sruth Fhada Chonn estuary SAC (Special Area of Protection) - in order to tug it to another part of the estuary.

The Rossport Solidarity Camp was ready and willing to claim free passage of the public estuary and in the process upset the operation. Over a dozen Shell security boats and two Garda RIBS couldn't keep the 6 kaykers out, with two of them reaching the moving barge after an hour and a half of chase.

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Yesterday morning 11 people from Rossport Solidarity Camp waded and kayaked out from the camp to again delay Shell’s survey work in Sruwaddacon Estuary. Overall drilling work was stopped for over 5 hours, with one person climbing up one of the legs of the drilling platforms. Several people also attached themselves to the 2 outer drilling poles which are under the platforms.

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While crackpot radio warns millions will die - I interview experts. Dr. Joye just returned from the Gulf measuring plumes. Hirshfield just testified to Congress. Mencimer writes: Tea Party fears Gulf spill leads to FEMA camps.

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The Gulf of Mexico "spill" is really a man-made underwater volcano of oil. This accident taps a primeval fear in the human mind. Something dark and uncontrollable rushes out of the Earth, poisoning the global oceans. Could that really happen? Richard Heinberg, Anita Burke, Riki Ott, Antonia Juhasz, and new song "Corporate Catastrophe".

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Today comes the startling news of a British government report showing a drop in oceanic zooplankton of 73 percent since 1960.

 http://www.earthportal.org/news/?p=1385

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We are holding a benefit for the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society by showing Rob Stewart's documentary Shark Water, about the illegal finning of sharks. Its aim is to raise as much money as possible for the SSCS to continue defending and conserving marine wildlife, enforcing laws and disrupting illegal whaling worldwide.

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Nottingham Animal Right's charity Gig to raise funds for the sea shepherd is just two weeks away.

The more people who come the better a chance we haveof future gigs at the venue, so come - it will be fun : )

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