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Fisheries: Under Development,

& Ben-Yami Link!

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(Any and all help/comments will be appreciated!)

 

My Thing: All The Fuss About Climate and Fisheries:

Original thoughts on "Un-Average Fish"

An Image that should be Tattooed on Foreheads of Stock Assessors

Background Documents for the subject:

2000 IFFET Brief Overvue of Fish Culture and Fisheries Science

William E. Evans - Take A Long 

Look at His Colorful Life!

Includes notes on where Ecosystem-Based Management Started - as per -

NOAA's 1st Ecosystem-Based Fisheries Management Program Development Plan

The June 2000 Fisherfolk Planning Meeting @ Monterey Bay

Coping with Observed Climate Changes  and 

Media Bending the Facts for $$$

Other's Opinions About Warming and a 

Long List of Responses - Mostly GOOD Things!

Then there are the Things we are Not Told -

There are the Usually More ThanTwo Sides of the Many Coins Involved - 

The Science Lab.com - Science Site-Links for Teachers and Students

Eduardo Ferreyra Shows that Famine Has Many Faces -

The Abbreviated Evolution of Climate Change Science

Links to Global Warming Information and Debate about Consequences - 

Then...

Reid Bryson's Sensible Review

William Kininmonth's & My comments re Present GCMs

and

Oh Yeah, What is the Pathway to Credible Climate Forecasts?

Successful Climate Forecasts using Solar Cycle Information

DR. Joseph Fletcher's Climate Forecast for the 21st Century

 Composited Looks Into What we Know - Or Do Not!

Sharp's 2003 - FAO Technical Paper No. 452 - ftp -

Or - Abstract w/link to .pdf
"Future climate change and regional fisheries: a collaborative analysis"

Klyashtorin L.B. 2001.Climate change and long term fluctuations of commercial catches:the possibility of forecasting.  FAO-FisheriesTechnical Report No. 410, 98pp. 

Followed up here -

Klyashtorin and Lyubushin -"Climate Changes and Fish Productivity" - 2007 .pdf book online in English  or Russian

and 

In 2007 an intensive Review was published, in which Joel Kauffman concludes:  "The AGW Hypothesis is not supported by surface temperature records of the last 250 years or by climate proxies of the greatest number and credibility from the past 1000 years, or by recent surface measurements in rural areas, or by atmospheric temperatures."

Then - recently updated via E&E

ENSO Colloquium July, 1997 and La Niña Summit July 1998,

California Rainfall - El Niño, La Niña, Etcetera.

Central Coast Joint Data Committee

Space-Based Oceanography and Climate Linkages

Affordable Renewable Energy. Does Anyone Know What's Up?

The Pending Emergy Crisis...  Richard Duncan's Olduvai Theory

Biodiversity: Which is all about Changes, not 'Stability'

PAGES - The long overdue Pole-to-Pole Climate Studies

CO2 SCIENCE and Other Folks' Understanding of Climate Changes

R.E. Stevenson's (d 4/2000) last thoughts on Global Warming Frenzy

The Basics of Aquatic Species Genetics and Changes Related to Exploitation, etc...

&

 Great Music! 

Need a Pretty Picture of Any Specific Location on Earth?

Behind this Project is my own perception that there are very few folks who appreciate the greater relevance of TIME. There is also a general absence of insight, or general misunderstanding about the relative youth of Science...

Some of the most difficult questions debated by early philosophers were those related to defining TIME. What we know; What we do not know; and, How long we have observed, or have been able to measure important natural phenomena. Mathematics is a fairly powerful means for translating observations about processes, into shareable knowledge, and lies at the base of making defensible forecasts based on fundamental principles. That action is the ultimate goal in 'applied' mathematics, and is the basis of all engineering, astronomy, and physics.

Now that we have a few centuries of observational data, real measurements, and some agreement on the common units used in making and reporting these, the next big project is to make what we have learned available, for anyone, and everyone who might be interested. Some of the more lucid methods have been scientific publications, text books, atlases, and more recently, websites where specialized topics can be posted, examined, and learned about. Among the most effective of these is the HyperPhysics - HyperMath site at Georgia State Univerity, kept fresh by Rod Nave.

I have also found that those old cultures with symbolic languages, not just phonetic alphabetically-based ones, provide unique experience from early developmental stages for increased application of intuitive math skills by their children. That likely explains why so many of the earliest break- throughs in mathematics and statistical reasoning came from Asia, the Middle East, and Russia. It is also quite common that todays western mathematicians, physicists, and logicians are also musicians, and thus also had early exposure to translation of symbols - 'notes' - into products, harmony and integrated 'music' that many understand, and appreciate.

There are also good reasons for westerners to understand that most of the great innovations in technology were imported from Asia, and that there have been many cultures that have contributed, having passed through the many stages of growth and recession, dominance and subjugation, long before the Greco-Roman eras, and many since...

Fernand Braudel, the late great French historian said it all, very well, in his "Wheels of Commerce" trilogy he connects the transitions since the onset of the Little Ice Age with the dramatic political and economic changes. Others have been observing and saying similar things for centuries.

For example, recently Doug Hoyt suggested that I look at a book published in London in 1686 by John Goad (1616-1691). Caroline Isaacs and I went to the Stanford University Library Archives - and there it was! What an experience...

Only 4 Centuries later - we now have a Website that links to the Best Astronomy Sites ---

Last Century, Milutin Milankovitch, a Serbian astrophysicist, gave us a new way to look at the Role of the Sun in relation to earth's many variations... Professor Oliver Manuel's update on the Sun's origin, composition, and source of energy and magnetism.

More recently, Space Weather has become a focus of many looking for answers to old questions such as does the Sun Affect Earth's magnetosphere, weather, and climate? The historical developments are being compiled for a UCLA course in solar-terrestrial Physics.

And then there is 21st Century Science - Observations+Facts Vs Modelled Fiction...

You will find more than one example in this site's materials of even stranger contemporary issues, and that most burdensome property of human nature -

Denial...

(No..., not the river in Egypt!)

TIME

is that Stuff that keeps everything

from happening

all at once!

Global Warming: Global Warning!

Oh Yeah! About the History of Solar Warming/Cooling Events -

The Black Death that killed 1 out of 3 Europeans during the 14th century occurred while the climate was suddenly getting colder.  The reason for the climate suddenly getting colder during the 14th century is illustrated in the figure above.  

The Query

"What is Time ?" is as old as human philosophy itself. Read what some Nobel Prize winning Writers have to say about the subject.

Time is always relative, - but the keys to reasonable temporal perspective in societal contexts are in the evolution of information encoding, and the persistence of lifestyles. Great diversity still persists, and tells all about adaptation... and true sustainability.

From Historical Records, the Warmest Periods in the Earth's recent few hundred thousand years have almost always Been Good for Humans.

The trick is to start trying to understand how Solar irradiance is linked to your local climate.

Charlie Perry Figured It Out!

 

Who do you Believe, and Why?

This is one of the key dilemmas of applied science, technology, and medicine in day-to-day living. Without going into great depths of detail here, it is also important to recognize just how really young are our most sophisticated observational bases for making informed decisions about an ever- changing world... and about the opposition to making the world more efficient ... e.g., What in Hell Happened to Nicholas Tesla, and his Great Ideas? & Where will the next Tesla come from?