Copepods, the most important animal on the planet

5 gigatons of these 1mm-sized zooplankton called COPEPODS live in all the world’s Oceans. This is equivalent to 17 million 747 jets, and if you laid the jets end to end, they would go around the planet 31 times.

The copepods migrate from around 200m below the ocean surface every night to feed on plants (phytoplankton) at the surface. It is the greatest mass migration of animals on the planet, and it happens twice a day. The vertical motion of the copepods moves just about as much water as the moon and the tides.

The copepods eat 30 times more carbon than humanity generates from burning fossil fuels, and about 6%, or 3 gigatons, of their dead bodies and poop end up in the world’s largest carbon bank, the Abyss. The Abyss contains 500m to 1000’s of meters thick layer of organic carbon / mineral sludge https://lnkd.in/evWBxYNh with an area greater area than dry land on the planet. https://lnkd.in/ezqwate4

Yet humanity has wiped out more than 50% of marine plankton productivity over the last 70 years due to chemical and particle pollution. We have also wiped out 50% of Arctic krill, which are just as important. https://lnkd.in/e9fn5TCr and we are now even contemplating dredging the ocean floor!

We would not have had climate change if we had not poisoned and destroyed most of the world’s oceans.

By 2045, the destruction will be complete unless we act now to stop the inevitable annihilation of nature and life on Earth. Let’s put things into perspective, in comparison to protecting nature, carbon mitigation, windmills and electric cars are almost a joke.

Copepods churn the oceans; https://lnkd.in/eqHn5cRd

Bioclimatic climate change: this report provides what we consider to be the most accurate mechanism for climate disruption, and it’s not carbon dioxide; https://lnkd.in/ev6_2cXN

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Over human population, this is not a problem

Over human population, this is not a problem because toxic chemicals are now making males sterile and reducing hormone levels. The problem is that it is also happening to nature.

Opinion piece that gives a good explanation. https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/why-2-is-the-most-dangerous-number-no-one-is-talking-about

There has been a huge drop in male sperm count and testosterone, up to 60%, over the last 50 years. https://lnkd.in/eV3uUuDD and it is currently declining at 2% every year. It is not just the number of sperm; it is also their quality and the likelihood of passing on genetic disease. We have already seen this in many cases; one of the worst examples was Agent Orange’s toxic contaminant, dioxin TDCC. The manufacturers, Dow Chemical and Monsanto, knew it was a problem, but it was cheaper to supply the contaminated, toxic product. Male sterility has been attributed to phthalates in plastic, but there are 14,000 other chemicals that are persistent and toxic to humans and nature.

WWF reported a 69% drop in wildlife.
https://lnkd.in/epTujT3s The same situation is happening with insects; https://lnkd.in/ebieY5vj

The use of toxic chemicals is an existential threat to humanity and marine life in the Oceans.

Everything we have predicted is coming true; https://lnkd.in/eRH-j3VM

What does it all mean? Well, unless we stop toxic and endocrine-disrupting forever chemicals, as well as plastic and partially combusted carbon, nature will be down 90% to 95% by 2045, and humanity will follow a few years later. Humanity is part of nature, and without nature, we cannot survive.

I don’t think Governments or Industry are going to change; it’s down to individuals and communities.

www.goesfoundation.com
bioclimatic climate change; https://lnkd.in/ev6_2cXN

Everything we have predicted is coming true.

Climate change is going to happen, and it will be ugly. Regardless of what the media reports, it cannot be stopped. We will have climate change between at least 2 °C and 3.5 °C; this is the scientific consensus.

So let’s park climate change and carbon mitigation and deal with a more pressing issue: the destruction of terrestrial and marine ecosystems and the loss of nature on land and marine life in the Oceans.

Most people now live a life insulated from nature, don’t think it really matters, or don’t appreciate or understand the importance of life on earth. In order for the planet to be sustainable, humanity must be in balance with the rest of nature. Over the last 70 years, this has definitely not been the case; we have destroyed ecosystems, employed destructive farming and fishing, and now we are poisoning everything with toxic chemicals, plastic, and partially combusted carbon.

We will survive climate change, but we will not survive the annihilation of nature and the life support system for the planet. If we had not destroyed marine life and 50% of terrestrial ecology, then we would not have climate change because of the carbon sequestration by nature.

Even if you eliminated man from the planet, the earth would not be okay because the toxic legacy would continue to destroy nature on land and in marine life for hundreds of years. Carbon tunnel vision is going to kill the planet; we must start eliminating toxicity and pollution to regenerate ecosystems and bring back nature. Humanity is part of nature, and without it, we cannot survive.

We have no more than 10 years to make the planet a non-toxic habitat, or it will be too late to stop the total destruction of nature over the next 20 years. This is the best chance of survival and also to stop climate change: place your trust in Nature unless you wish to place your trust in chemical or oil companies and an invention to suck carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere.

Marine life in the North Atlantic may collapse this year.
https://lnkd.in/eunw3tAX

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Ocean acidification, the whale in the room……

All life on earth depends on healthy marine ecosystems and biodiversity. Even climate disruption depends on the Oceans, but this was only acknowledged by the UN and IPCC in 2015.

The problem is that more than 50% of all marine life, including coral reefs, is dissolving rapidly due to ocean acidification. Aragonite and Magnesium calcite start to dissolve at pH 8.04. This means that all marine life composed of these minerals is coming under increasing stress and is predisposed to disease and breading issues. This is one of the reasons why 50% of the world’s coral reefs are gone, and the remaining 50% are under threat.

As the pH drops, the problems increase exponentially, and by the time the pH has dropped to pH 7.95, the ecosystem and most marine life will be gone. We lose the SML surface microlayer, as has happened in the Mediterranean; you have catastrophic climate change and coastal erosion; and 3 billion people lose their homes or suffer from starvation.

We can fix these issues.
1. Eliminate toxic forever chemicals, plastic pollution and partially combusted carbon
2. It’s too late to just do no harm; we must increase the calcium alkalinity of the world’s oceans. This will take 50% of the world’s shipping industry. It is an almost impossible task, but it needs to be done.
3. There are many other things that can be done, but the above two are probably 80% of the issue.
Bioclimatic climate change report; https://lnkd.in/ev6_2cXN

www.goesfoundation.com
Click o the link below to see oceanic pH around the world…..
https://lnkd.in/er3Ngvr8

Lead pollution costs the world nearly 10% of GDP

The global cost of lead exposure was US$6·0 trillion (range 2·6–9·0) in 2019, which was equivalent to 6·9% (3·1–10·4) of the global gross domestic product, stated in a report just published in the Lancet; https://lnkd.in/eiRsNVxh

In addition to lead, you also have pollution from mercury and all the other heavy metals; however, if this wasn’t bad enough, the real big killers are toxic forever chemicals and molecular plastics such as PCBs, PBDE, and PFOS. What’s the impact on Nature, Human health, and the GDP of these chemicals? The answer is that they will cost the Earth! Not in 100 years but over the next 10 to 20 years.

bioclimatic climate change; https://lnkd.in/ev6_2cXN

The storms were predicted……

The storms were predicted……

The Mediterranean storms have recently caused devastation in a country surrounding the region. These storms are known for their violent and unpredictable nature. Researchers have become more confident that the loss of the SML surface microlayer of the Mediterranean Sea is a major contributing factor. For more information on the bioclimatic climate disruption report and possible actions and solutions, read the report;
https://lnkd.in/ev6_2cXN

or visit www.goesfoundation.com

https://lnkd.in/eZH77ktn

#MediterraneanStorms#ClimateDisruption#MarineBiodiversity#Pollution#SustainableSolutions

Sunscreen is killing the Oceans and our planets life support system

The lowest concentration of oxybenzone that has been shown to damage corals is 62 parts per trillion (ppt). https://lnkd.in/ewSh8V4x

 This is equivalent to a drop of water in six and a half Olympic-sized swimming pools. At this concentration, oxybenzone can cause coral bleaching, genetic damage, and death to coral and probably most marine organisms. Every time you use a sunscreen containing Oxybenzone, you are probably killing all marine life is a water volume equivalent to 10,000 cubic meters, or everything in an area 100m x 100m.

The world produces 14,000 tonnes a year of Oxybenzone for sunscreens and other products. If we assume this all enters the world’s oceans, and given that it is lipid soluble, floats on the surface and doesn’t dissolve in the water but becomes concentrated on particles of microplastic and partially combusted carbon, and assuming it is dispersed throughout the top 1m of water depth, 14,000 tonnes give a concentration of 40ppt. We know that the chemical is lethal at 62ppt and is probably toxic down to 10ppt or lower to all zooplankton and phytoplankton.

Plankton are the lungs of the planet and our life support, 50% has been lost since 1970 and the remainder is being destroyed at a rate of 1% to 2% year on year.

The question is…. why are we not stopping the use of this chemical and the other 15,000 lipophilic toxic chemicals that are also being discharged into our ocean?

We could survive climate change; humanity will not survive the destruction of the oceans.

www.Goesfoundation.com

The GOES Report
https://lnkd.in/ev6_2cXN

The insect apocalypse, We have probably already killed the planet; we just don’t know it yet

The EU is about to re-approve the pesticide glyphosate;  https://lnkd.in/eHDCxEtn.
The UK Government fails to uphold its promise to outlaw neonicotinoids; see https://lnkd.in/ezK8UpbE A coated seed can even kill a bird. https://lnkd.in/e8FShCSx

Fields and plants do not retain the insecticides; they leak into the world’s waterways at a rate of 3 million tonnes every year.
https://lnkd.in/eUUUvBBw The impact on the marine ecosystem is devastating; marine life is not going to survive. 3 million metric tonnes equates to 15mg/l of concentration in the top 200 metres of the world’s oceans. This is way beyond the toxic threshold; why is the planet not dead already?

Many of the chemicals do not dissolve in the ocean but float on the surface and get bound up in microplastic and partially combusted carbon, even glyphosate, which is quite soluble. Marine plankton eat the particles and get dosed with the poison; this is why the marine ecosystem and life support system for the planet are dying.

The microplastic and black carbon soot now loaded with toxic chemicals become airborne in seawater aerosols, which form clouds. The toxic chemicals and particles return to the land and our drinking water in the rain. Every litre of rain now falling on the planet contains plastic and toxic chemicals; this is why insects all over the world are dying.

Ask Bard AI, “What percentage of flying insects are lost globally? “
Response from Bard “A 2017 study that was published in the journal Nature found that over the previous 27 years, the global biomass of flying insects has decreased by 76%. In other words, there are 76% fewer flying insects today than there were in 1989.

Ask Bard AI “Can humanity survive with a 90% loss of insects?”.
Response from Bard “No, if insects disappear by 90%, humanity cannot survive. The loss of insects would have a ripple effect on all other forms of life on the planet because they are essential to the Earth’s ecosystem.

Ask Bard AI, “When will we have eliminated 90% of all insects from the planet if the current rate of decline continues?”
According to the Bard “Journal of Biological Conservation,” the insect population worldwide is declining by an average of 2.5% annually. It would only take 28 years for insects to disappear if this rate of decline continues.”

Therefore, based solely on the loss of insects, humanity has less than 28 years to survive. The effects will build up over time, and as climate change takes effect, the destruction will accelerate. So we don’t have 28 years—probably less than 5 years—to take worldwide action and 10 to 15 years before the earth’s ecosystem collapses if we do nothing.

When will we stop poisoning the environment and start addressing the loss of biodiversity and climate change? Everyone must go organic now.

The GOES Report: https://lnkd.in/ev6_2cXN
www.GoesFoundation.com

https://lnkd.in/e9G6sJk9

The Oceans can save the world

The Oceans can save the world, but we must save them through the elimination of pollution and the protection of marine life.

It’s great that TIME magazine is flagging the issues, and of course whale poo is really important, but 80% of the world has no effluent treatment, and the shit from 6 billion people and all the toxic chemicals, herbicides, and pesticides are killing marine life in the world’s oceans.

No amount of whale poo is going to save the panet; pollution is killing the whales; and dinoflagellate phytoplankton fed by the pollution is producing domoic acid, which is causing the whales brain damage; and it’s not only whales; it’s all marine mammals and birds and even humans.

The Oceans are responsible for up to 80% of our oxygen and carbon sequestration. Terrestrial systems take 60 years to double in biomass, but if we stop killing marine life with toxic chemicals, the doubling time is just 3 days because most of the biomass in the oceans is bacteria and plankton under 1mm in size.

Actions and solutions: www.goesfoundation.com
Bioclimatic climate change… https://lnkd.in/ev6_2cXN

https://time.com/6307205/enric-sala-ocean-conservation/

This is just wrong on so many levels……

Microplastics are now everywhere on the planet. Take 1 kg of snow and ice from the Arctic, and you will find up to 10,000 pieces of plastic.

Plastic is falling in rainwater, this is why it is distributed everywhere.

The sailing vessel s/v Adelie, owned by Bjorn Riis-Johannessen and part of the GOES project, recently sampled Loch Ness in Scotland and found over 100 micro-fibre plastic particles per litre of water; microplastics particles are probably 10 times higher.

There is really no need to say any more on the subject; unless we deal with this pollution, it will kill all of nature and us in a few decades.

photo scale, 5000 microns

actions and solutions; www.goesfoundation.com
bioclimatic climate change; https://lnkd.in/ev6_2cXN