Seahorse Point

There is a way out of the mess we have made of climate change and the destruction of Nature.

What we know for sure is that carbon mitigation will not work; its too late and we havent even started to reduce emissions, they keep increasing year over year.

Even if we achieve net zero tomorrow, carbon dioxide concentrations will still pass 500 ppm, ocean acidification will still drop below pH 7.95, and we lose most life in the oceans and the life support system for the planet, as well as the primary mechanism that regulates climate change.

We have already destroyed over 70% of all life on Earth since 1970, and probably close on to 90% since 1900. We are part of nature and depend upon nature for our survival, but in 20 years from now, most of it will be gone.

Humanity has poisoned the planet; every litre of rain now contains at least 10 particles of plastic and 5 pharmaceutical or toxic chemicals. Every litre of rain contains herbicides and pesticides. Every animal and plant on the planet contains plastic; all insects everywhere are being killed by the pesticides. Most cancer and many neurological health issues are caused by the toxic substances; life expectancy is falling, and infertility is rapidly increasing due to endocrine disruptors.

What are the academics and scientists doing? They are doing a wonderful job of cataloguing our destruction.

The decision to take action should be easy; the solutions are clear and achievable.

For a detailed analysis check download our report;
https://lnkd.in/ev6_2cXN

and watch this great video,
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Seahorse Point refurbishments and upgraes are well underway, our new doc has just been fitted with solar lights.

Several dolphins cruising by our dock at www.seahorsepoint.org this morning. They belong to a unique pod of 80 dolphins in Bocas Del Toro. They do not migrate or live in any other location. The animals are under stress from tourism and pollution, as well as over exploufation of their food. It’s the same problem everywhere, however in Bocas we can monitor the population and measure the benefits that can be realized by improving their environmental conditions.

Saved by a can of beer
Sir Robin Knox Johnson, the first person to sail non-stop around the world.

When he sailed sailing vessel Suhaili around the world in 1968, there were at least 4 times more fish, whales and marine life in the worlds Oceans. Marine life is now dying at a rate of at least 2% year on year and over the next 20 years, there will be 50 times less life in comparison to 1900.

The Oceans are dying, the life support system for the planet is collapsing and we are losing the main regulator of the climate, because the focus is on carbon. In any event, nothing is being done to reduce carbon emissions, so it almost a total waste of time.

Sir Robin required sponsorship to help finance his voyage, he went out to industry in the UK, and the response was a £5 gift token for chocolate from Cadburys,  and 10 crates of beer from Tennents in Scotland. Sir Robin later said that he lost most of his water in 3 storms and if it wasn’t for the beer, he may not have made it around the world. It was my father, when he managed Tennents brewery, that donated the beer.

The photo is of Sir Robin and I just before I joined Clipper Around the World Race to crew on the leg between Rio De Janeiro and Cape Town. I chose this leg because it takes you into the rolling 40’s for some serious sailing and marine life. During the 18 day sail in 2015, we did not see any whales. This was a shock to my system and as a result, we started www.GoesFoundation.com to start answering some questions.

We have now completed stage 1 of GOES and the conclusion is that the Ocean have up to 10 times more plastic and partially combusted carbon particles above 20 microns than marine life at the ocean surface.

60% of all marine life biomass is under 1mm in size and has a doubling time of just 3 days. If we stopped the pollution from lipophilic toxic chemicals, partially combusted carbon, and plastic, marine life would rebound super-fast.

80% of the world’s effluent and atmospheric pollution is discharged untreated, it is now causing 90%+ of all cancer and many other conditions. It would be much easier to clean up our oceans and atmosphere than to reduce carbon emissions.

We could have a clean, healthy world, with an ecosystem that could deal with carbon. This would be the real solution for our survival and climate change, but why is it being totally ignored ?

www.seahorsepoint.org Nature resilience Centre and www.Geoversity.org
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In a post from Keiran Kelly of Ocean Integrity, fishermen have their finger on the pulse of ocean life and fish stocks. Fish all over the world are stunted to around 10% of their normal size. Its going to take the academics 10 years to catch up to the fact that the entire marine ecosystem may be about to collapse.

https://lnkd.in/eXxZbqEK

NASA describes the unprecedented heating affect and record temperatures as ocean fever. https://lnkd.in/eBE5NmAp

The world’s oceans are terribly sick, but even deep water fish and marine life not subject to high temperatures are in trouble and experiencing the same issues. The food for all fish and marine life is derived from phytoplankton plants and zooplankton animals that live near the surface. Plants and animals are sensitive to microplastics and partially combusted carbon that is loaded with lipophilic toxic chemicals. The particles act like sponges to adsorb and concentrate the chemicals, the particles are then consumed by plankton, and the plankton by fish.

The root of the ocean food chain and planetary life support system is poisoned. More than 80% of all industrial and municipal waste water from 8 billion people is dumped into our rivers and oceans with no treatment. For these chemicals, dilution is not the solution to pollution.

55% of the oceans are now green due to dinoflagellates, many of which are toxic. https://lnkd.in/eW59dWfm

Everyting that we have reported in https://lnkd.in/ev6_2cXN is happening, but much faster than we predicted, this is why we have changed the dinoflagellate curve on the graph, to reflect the new data.

If we are correct, and pollution is the root cause of ecosystem destruction, then effluent treatment will help. If we are wrong, then it can not be stopped, and the consequences over the next few years will be far more serious than climate change.

In terms of greenhouse gases, carbon dioxide represents around 20%, water vapour is by far the largest at 70%, and then you have methane, which is 80 times more of a greenhouse than carbon dioxide and will likely overtake carbon dioxide in a few years.

The loss of natural carbon fixation just from the overexploitation of commercial fisheries is equivalent to all anthropogenic carbon dioxide production. https://lnkd.in/gUts-VYJ This is just one example; there are many others. So carbon mitigation is almost irrelevant in comparison to the protection of nature.

80% of water vapour comes from the oceans, and the rate of evaporation is controlled by the SML surface microlayer, which is formed by phytoplankton such as coccolithophores and diatoms. https://lnkd.in/ev6_2cXN

These plankton plants are rapidly disappearing; this is called regime shift by the academics; I call it extinction.
https://lnkd.in/eZEaA5FH

Carbon mitigation is not going to work; this only leaves nature and bioclimatic factors, yet humanity has destroyed more than 70% of nature on land and marine life in the oceans since the 1970s and close to 90% since the 1900s. Most people do not see this happening unless they are over 50 years old. It’s called shifting baseline syndrome. https://lnkd.in/eBSNT-FS

Our leaders and indeed everyone must reconnect with nature; our survival is directly linked to the survival of nature; there is no technological solution or invention that will make a difference.

Once we have respect and appreciation for nature, we will have respect for fellow citizens, and fixing climate change will be like a walk in the forest.

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PACE = Plankton, Aerosols, Clouds and ocean Ecosystems

Plankton and biogenic factors regulate water vapour pressure and aerosol cloud formation. The combined processes probably contribute over 70% of the anthropogenic factors that regulate the climate. For example, 80% of the world’s water vapour is from evaporation from the ocean surface, which covers 71% of the planet. Plankton produce a lipid surfactant layer that covers the world’s oceans in a skin 1 to 1000 microns thick, which regulates up to 50% of all gas transfers, including water vapour. We know it is really important, but it is only now that the subject is being investigated in detail with the launch of PACE.

We need to take a precautionary approach; we will never have all the facts, but we know that partially combusted carbon particles, plastic, and lipophilic toxic chemicals are killing the planet and destroying plankton.

While we need sensors to monitor the systems and collect data, we also need action. 80% of the world’s municipal and industrial wastewater is discharged untreated; the same applies to atmospheric pollution. https://lnkd.in/ec4_eDnp

99.82% of the global land area is exposed to toxic levels of particulate matter 2.5 (PM2.5) https://lnkd.in/ezB5f4qP

Billions of dollars are being spent on sensors, and effectively nothing on fixing the problem.
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https://pace.gsfc.nasa.gov