World Oceans Day June 8

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Announcing UN World Oceans Day 2021

We don't have a problem with educating the world about the abuse and pollution happening to our oceans, but we have a problem with the UN's answer to it. In this promotional video, the push is to have us "honor" the ocean – almost like Gaia worship. Let us instead always honor God. If we did so, the oceans wouldn't be in the condition they are now.

Take time to see the condition they are in – but be mindful whose direction you follow.

It is also nice to see Gibraltar Chronicle doing more than a GoG Press Release on World Oceans Day, which is actually an article with some depth, instead of a vague press release.

Some people are doing good by turning plastic into recycling bins; but little devils far outnumber them as they throw their plastics in the rubbish bins instead of taking care to put them in recycling bins. They are Satan's helpers, because he wants to trash and destroy the earth.

Silly Studies – Plastic bottles to be dumped off Cornish coast ... (but it’s all in the name of science) – Researchers will use satellite technology to follow the route of waste for two years to work out where washed-up pollutants are coming from
No study needed – humans do it by trashing the planet and industry does it by packaging everything.

Plastics is a petroleum product – and who owns the petroleum industry? The same brought us Deepwater Horizon.

Many times when industry does it, they get slapped with a fine, which pales in comparison to the oil industries profits – £20,000 Fine for Bulk Carrier Over Gibraltar Bunker Spill.

We might also think about what lies beneath UN agendas - as the Ice Age Farmer pointed out that saving trees was really about a global surveillance grid.; how much monitoring/surveillance of the oceans will be done in the UN's 2021-2030 Sustainable Development Plan for the Ocean?

British Government Fully Signed up to United Nations Agenda 2030

SLY MOVES

Of course, some would use this day as an opportunity to push the "Go Meatless" agenda

World Ocean Day: Stop eating meat to protect the ‘lungs of our planet’ - NZVS
Researchers have predicted that all fisheries will completely collapse by 2048, mainly due to the loss of bio-diversity caused by overfishing and the multiple other human threats facing ocean wildlife and ecosystems (including climate change and pollution).

With the destruction of our natural world highlighted through documentaries like ‘Seaspiricy,’ more people are deciding to exclude animal products from their diets. Even though eliminating seafood from your diet is the best way to stop supporting the rapid depletion of fished species and the many other marine animals who fall victim to fisheries as by-catch, consuming meat and other animal products also has a devastating impact on the sea.

Agreed the oceans and seas are overfished. But let's not forget who overfishes them - Big Industry – who are supported by governments.

There is a different between a mega-troller and a small fishing boat.

We know the difference between - The World's Largest Trawlerimage

and a small fishing boat -
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Yet, blame for the oceans depletion is blamed on humanity; and not the industries that have caused it and still work toward increased quotas.

Is the agenda really about saving the ocean or controlling the food supply? That depends on who you are.

According to God's Law, the only clean fish that we should be eating have fins and scales. This means much of the fishing is Unlawful in the first place.

Leviticus 11:9 These shall ye eat of all that [are] in the waters: whatsoever hath fins and scales in the waters, in the seas, and in the rivers, them shall ye eat.
11:10 And all that have not fins and scales in the seas, and in the rivers, of all that move in the waters, and of any living thing which [is] in the waters, they [shall be] an abomination unto you:

This would eliminate lobster, shrimp, mussels, crabs and much more.
We should only be eating clean fish, not the scavengers who absorb toxins.

Instead of following the Satanic UN, follow a spiritual path when it comes to the Environment – Read JAH's Environmental page.

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Mediterranean Sea Information – For what it's worth:

WWF releases new report: "The Climate Change Effect in the Mediterranean: Stories from an overheating sea”*

The Mediterranean is becoming the fastest-warming and the saltiest sea on our planet. WWF’s new report: “The Climate Change Effect in the Mediterranean: Stories from an overheating sea” shows six main impacts that climate change has on all marine biodiversity and the extent of the resulting mutations in key fish species and habitats with consequent impact on local livelihoods. WWF points out the dangerous relationship between climate-driven impact and existing human pressures on marine life, such as overfishing, pollution, coastal development, and shipping that have already dramatically reduced the ecological resilience of our sea.

On World Ocean Day, WWF is also releasing “Blueprint for a Living Planet,” which outlines four principles for integrated ocean-climate action to guide discussions going into the Convention on Biological Diversity COP15, the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change COP26, and the Barcelona Convention COP22 that will take place during the second half of 2021. WWF is calling on global and Mediterranean leaders to ensure that stronger biodiversity and climate actions and financial mechanisms are agreed this year.

WWF is calling for 30% of the Mediterranean to be effectively protected by 2030.

The six main effects of climate change we identified in the Mediterranean are:

  1. Tropicalization of the sea with native species forced to displace or to die due to increasing temperatures. “The total lack of common Mediterranean species and the ubiquitous occurrence of non-indigenous ones makes the seascape unrecognizable in comparison with other Mediterranean sites,” states Paolo Albano, the researcher who led the study.
  2. Fish migrations are happening across the whole region: almost 1000 new invasive species (126 fish species) have entered the Mediterranean, causing reductions in native species of up to 40% in some areas. Also within the basin, fish species are moving from the southern coasts of Africa to warming northern waters.
  3. A Jellification of the sea is ongoing with jellyfish blooms happening annually and lasting longer in southern waters. Years of overfishing have destroyed many of the stocks that used to compete with jellyfish for food, and now some fishers can now catch more jellyfish than fish.
  4. Posidonia meadows are threatened by warming waters and rising sea levels, with dire consequences for biodiversity and blue carbon. Posidonia meadows store 11-42% of CO2 emissions from Mediterranean countries.
  5. 30% of all gorgonians were destroyed by a single storm. Charismatic coral species that until now have played a key role in many complex Mediterranean ecosystems are destroyed by extreme weather.
  6. 80-100% of Pinna nobilis populations were recently lost in mass mortality events in Spain, Italy and other Mediterranean sites. The largest endemic bivalve in the Mediterranean, and one of the largest in the world, it can create habitats for up to 146 different species.
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UN chief warns of 'ocean emergency' as Lisbon summit opens

https://www.france24.com/en/europe/20220627-world-is-facing-an-ocean-emergency-warns-un-chief-as-lisbon-summit-kicks-off

A long-delayed conference on how to restore the faltering health of the world's oceans kicked off in Lisbon on Monday, with the head of the UN saying the world’s seas are in crisis.

“Today we face what I would call an ocean emergency,” UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres told thousands of policymakers, experts and advocates at the opening plenary, describing how seas have been hammered by climate change and pollution.

Humanity depends on healthy oceans.

They generate 50 percent of the oxygen we breathe and provide essential protein and nutrients to billions of people every day.

Covering 70 percent of Earth’s surface, oceans have also softened the impact of climate change for life on land.

But at a terrible cost.

Absorbing around a quarter of CO2 pollution—even as emissions increased by half over the last 60 years—has turned sea water acidic, threatening aquatic food chains and the ocean’s capacity to absorb carbon.

And soaking up more than 90 percent of the excess heat from global warming has spawned massive marine heatwaves that are killing off precious coral reefs and expanding dead zones bereft of oxygen.

“We have only begun to understand the extent to which climate change is going to wreak havoc on ocean health,” said Charlotte de Fontaubert, the World Bank’s global lead for the blue economy.

Making things worse is an unending torrent of pollution, including a garbage truck’s worth of plastic every minute, according to the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP).

On current trends, yearly plastic waste will nearly triple to one billion tonnes by 2060, according to a recent report by the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD).

Wild fish stocks

Microplastics—now found inside Arctic ice and fish in the ocean’s deepest trenches—are estimated to kill more than a million seabirds and over 100,000 marine mammals each year.

Solutions on the table range from recycling to global caps on plastic production.

Global fisheries will also be in the spotlight during the five-day UN Ocean Conference, originally slated for April 2020 and jointly hosted by Portugal and Kenya.

“At least one-third of wild fish stocks are overfished and less than 10 percent of the ocean is protected,” Kathryn Matthews, chief scientist for US-based NGO Oceana, told AFP.

“Destructive and illegal fishing vessels operate with impunity in many coastal waters and on the high seas.”

One culprit is nearly $35 billion in subsidies. Baby steps taken last week by the World Trade Organization (WTO) to reduce handouts to industry will hardly make a dent, experts said.

The conference will also see a push for a moratorium on deep-sea mining of rare metals needed for a boom in electric vehicle battery construction.

Scientists say poorly understood seabed ecosystems are fragile and could take decades or longer to heal once disrupted.

Another major focus will be “blue food”, the new watchword for ensuring that marine harvests from all sources—wild caught and farmed—are sustainable and socially responsible.

Protected areas

Aquaculture yields—from salmon and tuna to shellfish and algae—have grown by three percent a year for decades and are on track to overtake wild marine harvests that peaked in the 1990s, with each producing roughly 100 million tonnes per year.

The Lisbon meeting will be attended by ministers and even a few heads of state, including French President Emmanuel Macron, but is not a formal negotiating session.

But participants will push for a strong oceans agenda at two critical summits later this year—the COP27 UN climate talks in November, hosted by Egypt, followed by the long-delayed COP15 UN biodiversity negotiations, recently moved from China to Montreal.

Oceans are already at the heart of a draft treaty tasked with halting what many scientists fear is the first “mass extinction” event in 65 million years. A cornerstone provision would designate 30 percent of the planet’s land and ocean as protected areas.

But preparatory negotiations in Nairobi ended on Sunday in deadlock.

“The agreement is at risk of collapsing on the question of finance,” the environmental diplomacy lead for WWF France told AFP.

For climate change, the focus will be on carbon sequestration—boosting the ocean’s capacity to soak up CO2, whether by enhancing natural sinks such as mangroves or through geoengineering schemes.

At the same time, scientists warn, a drastic reduction in greenhouse gases is needed to restore ocean health.

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Glow-in-the-dark water. Islands of poop. Mountains of trash. Rivers of algae. These are just some of the ways China is killing the world's oceans. In this episode of China Uncensored, we look at how China is hurting all of us through its rampant pollution.

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Glowing 'Blue Tears' in China's Seas Are Incredibly Toxic — And They’re Growing

By Isobel Whitcomb

published June 12, 2019

The waves around a set of islands glow neon blue

The "Blue Tears" in the East China Sea are actually caused by toxic algae, and new research suggests they are growing bigger every year. (Image credit: WanRu Chen/Getty)

On summer nights, the waters surrounding Taiwan's Matsu Islands cast an eerie blue glow. The phenomenon, known as China's "blue tears," is actually caused by a bloom of tiny, bioluminescent creatures called dinoflagellates. Tourists from all over China come to view the twinkling seascape.

The bloom in the East China Sea may be beautiful, but it's also toxic. And it's growing bigger every year, a recent study finds. [Gallery: Eye-Catching Bioluminescent Wonders]

"People think this is romantic and beautiful to watch at night," Chanmin Hu, an oceanographer at the University of South Florida and study co-author, told Live Science, "It's toxic."

Hu and his team of researchers used satellite data to track the size of the bloom over time. By analyzing nearly 1,000 satellite images from the past 19 years, the researchers were able to identify a signature unique to blue tears — the wavelengths of light reflected by this particular creature, but not others. "It's like a fingerprint," Hu said. Using this fingerprint, they found that the bloom, which is typically seen near shore, is extending its reach into deeper waters.

That's a problem for marine creatures.

The blue tears phenomenon can poison sea life, from fish to sea turtles. The bloom can even make humans sick, Hu said. The dinoflagellates actually aren't toxic themselves — until they begin chowing down, he said. Toxic algae is their food of choice, and as they eat, they release ammonia and other chemicals that poison the water around them. Not only that, but these creatures breathe oxygen until there's none left in the surrounding waters.

"The oxygen in the water is so low that many animals can die," Hu said.

The cause of blue tears isn't certain, but Hu and his colleagues think pollution from agriculture that funnels down the [Yangtze River plays a major role](Yangtze River: Longest River in Asia | Live Science). The river dumps fertilizer into the East China Sea, giving blue tears massive doses of the nutrients it needs to grow..

Hu and his colleagues noticed that the size of the bloom was particularly low during the construction of the controversial Three Gorges Dam, between 2000 to 2003. It so happens that during those years, the Yangtze River's flow had decreased markedly. In 2003, when dam construction was complete and the Yangtze River began to flow more strongly again, Hu saw the bloom begin to grow once more.

Hu and his colleagues don't expect the bloom to stop growing anytime soon. That means it will continue to pose a threat to marine life. And the waters will glow more brilliantly.