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| Sild |
Posted - 11/05/2008 : 15:21:13
Guys,
Just got back from a seminar on Climate Change Impact on Water Resources held at National Hydraulic Reserach Institute of Malaysia (NAHRIM) yesterday.
Just wanna share some interesting finding based on reserch done recently on global climate and local climate as well.
We're definitely experiencing the effect now! The historical data and the projected data shows that we're experiencing lot more heavier rain, lot more draught, heavier stream flows locally and other extreme events.
Haiti recently experience typhoon 4 times in a month! Malaysia is still lucky due to our position near equator and this coriolis effect that said to defer those forces to come closer to us BUT there are other extreme events that can penetrate our walls of comforts.
Several models have been tested on impacts to be generated by climate changes. It have been shown globally that our planet will be warmer from 1.8 degree celcius to 4 degree celcisu by the 21th century. Malaysia is listed in top 30 as a CO2 emitter which is alarmin!!!! luckily it's base on only emergy emission. NAHRIM did a study for Peninsula Malaysia which have yet to be revised by UNDP. It shows that we are actually absorbing back most of the carbon relase (carbon sink)from our plantations. This thing have been debated on the 3th of November in the parliment.
Well there are many more details that i can discuss here BUT the idea is to tell you guys that "THIS IS REAL AND IT"S HAPPENING" Fast and not in linear!!!
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| kevinlw |
Posted - 05/29/2009 : 10:01:14
Anyone saw Al Gore's DVD? very informative...imagine if he became President of the US!
I was planning with Bro Innerzen to get my lecturer friend to give a talk on the environment...have to put this project back on the front burners... |
| Sild |
Posted - 04/29/2009 : 18:10:07
Sorry Snook,
Not much in local media i believed. Sorry guys, been away catching fishes...hehehhe
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| derrick goh |
Posted - 04/19/2009 : 18:07:12
What more, seeing young goons fishing, make a lot of noise, and then leaving all their trash at the spot they fished, like plastics, lines, cigarette butts (lots of em). The education needs to start even with some of our fellow hobbyists.
Maybe the forum moderators can line up DO's and DON'T's for those who wish to fish and protect the environment. |
| Snook Hunter |
Posted - 11/27/2008 : 15:55:28
Sild,
any chance of us get to read the papers in the local media? We need to educate the majority of malaysians to take care of our waters and the marine life beneath the surface. Basic ettiquette like dont throw rubbish into the rivers and sea still fall on deaf ears especially the boatmen and their awak2. Eventually they are washed ashore on the beach, some got stuck on the corals. It is very sad, if we can get our mentality half of the Australians on the environmental issues, then we got some chance. I guess we are still busy developing on materialistic issues, while they already developed and gone to the next phase of taking care of the intangibles. |
| Sild |
Posted - 11/27/2008 : 11:35:33
Am now in Kuantan attending and presenting a paper for the International Conference titled : The South China Sea : Sustainig Ocean Productivities, Maritime Communitied and The Climate.
Several nice papers were presented yesterday; the best so far by the Director of NOAA, USA on Sustainability of Large Marine Ecosystems of Southeast Asia.
There will be several papers on update of Climate Change too. There were also some nice fisheries papers presented yesterday; many were open for wide intepretation. Had a discusioon with many of them on cahnges of catched, fishing effots etc.
The best qoute from yesterday is " Catch and Sustain".
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| Snook Hunter |
Posted - 11/26/2008 : 14:21:50
Sild,
I agree with you that the corals which took thousands of years to form are fast becoming extinct. The reason is human! worst than climate change which takes time. When the corals die, other marine life will eventually disappear through the effect on the food chain. The authorities somehow not in tune with preservation as you can see more and more resorts on islands are approved for construction, latest case in Sabah. The siltation from construction and anchoring of boats will damage the coral faster than the climate change. Then come the sewage etc.
I guess it is human nature to destroy his own habitat. If we cannot cultivate the love for nature among us especially the authorities and greedy developers, i think the future will be bleak for our children and their children.
Soon, there will be very little fish left for us fishos, and we will be confined to fish in an aquarium! |
| JungleBum |
Posted - 11/24/2008 : 11:58:12
Sild,
Would like to comment on the global warming front. I hear tw schools of thought: many "prophets of doom' are saying that this is due to the CO2 effect, whilst another (smaller) group say the Earth is in one of its natural upwards swing anyway (like the ice age was a downward swing lah).
Anyway, we probably all agree that CO2 emmissions is making things worse!
At one time, there was this move for "Carbon Sequestration": giving back carbon to the Earth, where we took out in the form of fuel (hydrocarbons). Programs were held where people and corporations planted trees all over. But like many such programs, interest waned.
We Malaysians are definitely guilty of destroying our forests, with its impacts on weather, rivers, lakes etc. We can't bring the original jungle back, but we can at least put new trees to balance back the "green belts".
Imagine if 5 million Malaysians can plant one tree each. he amount of greenery we put back is tremendous!
But clearing 10 acres of land, and then growing a plantation, doesn't add to the sequestration cause lah!
I'm suddenly reminded of two people: Johnny Appleseed (who planted apple seeds wherever he went) and that African woman who started planting trees in her ****ry cos the lands were turning into desesrts.
Hmm, maybe i should go to the nursery and buy some rambutan seedlings...
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| Sild |
Posted - 11/12/2008 : 16:48:45
Lots of prediction mainly on a bigger issues; sea level rises; typhoon, changes of monsoon patterns, agricultural changes due to increase of temperature, methane produced etc.
None were discusing about the migratory paterns of fishes due this changes (salinity, temperature, atm pressure) etc). Some discussion/seminar have been done in Bergen, Norway discusiing on this issues mainly related to saliniy and fish movement, but nothing solid yet (http://www.iiirm.org/iiirmblog/?p=50)
Lets not worry too much about Siakap since they are not among the first to get wipe up due to this climate change, habitat modification/alterations/destruction YES. They are quite capable in thriving in quite large salinity ranges; so they will survive provided they have the habitats. There is a publication on this issues in (http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/11/081106065602.htm). They did discussed about changes of temperature into movement of fishes that travel from freshwater to marine vise versa.
There are also discusion about changes of temperature to growth of fishes, comparing it with depth etc (http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/04/070427120433.htm). Well fishes move around and they need to do time series of experiments/excercise to get a better prediction/results.
Corals for examples doesn't move around. Remember thos lanina/elnino 10 years back where coral reef got bleached out?? Well those uniques creatures in those hard coral (zoozanthalae???); these are symbion ; Symbiodinimum microadriaticum which expels out from the hard coarl leaving the coral bleached out and turn white!
That's what happened; heard after that some areas were 'healed' back by this zoozanthalae can thrive back; others dead like dodo. These are some of the historic events that we can refer too; but those on short duration. This prediction on global climate change is supposed to be for a long series events...thinking a bout it making me nuts for a while.
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| Snook Hunter |
Posted - 11/11/2008 : 15:34:31
So Sild,how is global warming gonna affect the fish specifically? Are they going to swim deeper most of the time, migrate to cooler seas or what? The sea salt level gonna be diluted right due to melting of polar caps, so any effect on certain species like Siakap at the river mouth? Care to elaborate so we can restrategize our fishing tactics? |
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