[Mike]

Hi Folks
Can there really be any doubt that something horrible is going on
since the Aerosol Operation began in earnest??
This is not coincidental and it is not global warming. Even today,
on the floor of the Senate, the theory of global warming was
questioned.
Get in touch (nicely) with your elected officials and express you
heartfelt concern regarding S.517 and H.R. 2995
I know, as do you, this “proposed” operation of ‘weather
modification’ is currently in full swing, although, our gov’t would
like us to believe it is planned for the future.
Raise awareness at every opportunity. The health and future of our
families and communities depend on it.

Bridget

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/story.cfm?c_id=2&ObjectID=10354987
Fish numbers plummet in warming Pacific

13.11.05 5.00pm
By Geoffrey Lean

SAN FRANCISCO – A catastrophic collapse in sea and bird life numbers
along America’s Northwest Pacific seaboard is raising fears that
global warming is beginning to irreparably damage the health of the
oceans.

Scientists say a dramatic rise in the ocean temperature led to
unprecedented deaths of birds and fish this summer all along the
coast from central California to British Columbia in Canada.

The population of seabirds, such as cormorants, auklets and murres,
and fish, including salmon and rockfish, fell to record lows.

This ecological meltdown mirrors a similar development taking place
thousands of miles away in the North Sea.

Also caused by warming of the water, the increase in temperatures
there has driven the plankton that form the base of the marine food
chain hundreds of miles north.

This triggers a collapse in the number of sand eels on which many
birds and large fish feed and causes a rapid decline in puffins,
razorbills, kittiwakes and other birds.

The collapses in the Pacific are also down to the disappearance of
plankton, though the immediate cause for this is different.

Water temperatures soared to 7C above normal, which delighted
bathers but caused the whole delicate system to collapse.

The amount of phytoplankton crashed to a quarter of its usual level.

“In 50 years this has never happened,” said Bill Peterson, an
oceanographer with the US government’s National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administration, NOAA, in Newport, Oregon.

Record numbers of dead seabirds soon washed up on beaches along the
coast.

There were up to 80 times more dead Brandt’s cormorants, a fishing
bird, than in previous years. Tests showed the birds died of
starvation.

“They are not finding enough food, and so they use up the energy
stored in their muscles, liver and body fat,” said Hannah Nevins,
who investigated similar mass deaths in Monterey Bay.

Many fear the ecological collapse is a portent of things to come, as
the world heats up.

A Canadian Government report noted that ocean temperatures off
British Colombia reached record levels last year as well,
blaming “general warming of global lands and oceans”.

And Professor Ronald Neilson, of Oregon State University,
added: “The oceans are generally warming up and there are all sorts
of signs that something strange is afoot.”