Now they’re trying to get me where I live, right in the lobster. Don’t mess with my lobster roll, climate goons!
Via Think Progress:
It might be time to put away the butter.
Lobsters may be tough to come by in the coming years, according to a Tuesday report from the Associated Press. That report cited a University of Maine study showing that the number of baby lobsters settling off the state’s coast has declined by more than half from their 2007 levels.
Eight years is the amount of time a baby lobster takes to mature to legal harvesting size, so the real dinner table impacts would not likely be felt for at least some time.
As for the cause of this decline, the AP interviewed scientists who cited rising ocean temperature as a distinct possibility, though it failed to make the connection of warming oceans to man-made climate change. Rick Wahle, a marine ecologist at the University, cited rising ocean surface temperatures of .26 degrees Celsius per year since 2004, a dramatic increase from the .026 degree Celsius average increase Wahle was seeing each year since 1982.
But note the weasel words throughout the article. Warming of the ocean is a “possibility” (along with pollution and other possibilities) for the decline. Then no proof that if there is warming, that that warming has anything to do with human influences.
But hey, let’s just throw something out there to add to the list of things evil global warming will kill.