Regarding Earthquakes I said above (Tuesday, 5 April 2016 10:02:09 AM)
"This is Vanuatu. A 6.9 Earthquake hits April 3.
Is Peru, Ecuador or Chile next?"
Ecuador has just been hit by a series of nine large quakes including a 7.8!!

Chile has had 5 quakes over 4.5 during the last week (one nearby in Argentina and another in Bolivia). Columbia had a 4.9 on the 11th and a 4.5 on the 7th and Peru had a 4.6 on the 7th.

Leo

You really are a comedian.

http://lists.cryolist.org/pipermail/cryolist-cryolist.org/attachments/20160412/df4b427c/attachment-0001.pdf

http://www.ecoshock.info/2016/03/extreme-arctic-fear.html

http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/climate-change/arctic-warming-rapidly-increasing-temperatures-are-possibly-catastrophic-for-planet-climate-a6896671.html

http://westcoastoah.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/OAH-Panel-Key-Findings-Recommendations-and-Actions-4.4.16-FINAL.pdf

On David Attenborough's Great Barrier Reef film shown tonight he raised the issue of green turtles breeding on Raine Island. Scientists were finding that the birth rate was decreasing as sea water was impacting on some of the laid eggs. The sand level was built up and results were showing the birth rate increased. Sea level rise had been the issue.

You are not even funny, flea, just a time wasting dunce. The report to which you referred us is by Ruth Mottram:”On Twitter, Ruth Mottram, a climate scientist whose work focuses on Greenland and the Arctic, was skeptical of such enormous rates of near-term sea level rise”
http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2015/07/20/sea_level_study_james_hansen_issues_dire_climate_warning.html
Let me remind you of what you are attempting to answer:” Except current observations show that Antarctica, Greenland, and the Arctic are not melting at the alarming rates as predicted”.
No wonder you say, flea, that you should not comment on science unless you are qualified in science. It certainly applies to you, but besides being unqualified, you are a dunce, so it does not necessarily apply to others, who are not proven dunces like yourself..

@ ant, Sunday, 17 April 2016 10:03:14 PM

Green turtles are starving so no wonder their birth rate is decreasing.
Google: green turtles starving, or see:
http://www.wwf.org.au/news_resources/?2863/Turtle-crisis-looms-for-Great-Barrier-Reef

Turtles weakened by malnutrition or starvation would be less likely to climb higher onto a beach to lay and/or may not even dig their nest deep enough.

Also, sea water would always be impacting on laid turtle eggs especially following storm or cyclone linked beach erosion immediately or even months later depending on change to the water current regime.

Algae is linked to sea level rise.
The world's biggest algae inundated ocean dead zone (off Texas) has the highest recorded sea level rise and sea surface temperature in USA waters.

David Attenborough's Great Barrier Reef film was filled with beautiful images of the GBR and did not focus on the damage and dead coral inundated with algae.

Did the Attenborough film report anything about invasive algae as told here? NO. Why not? What motive exists to cover up reality?
http://www.vox.com/2016/4/6/11371960/coral-reefs-fish-recovery

There really is need for a Royal Commission into the cover up of the true state of the marine environment in Australian waters that are supposed to sustain biodiversity of the south western Pacific Ocean and world ocean on which many people depend for food and livelihood.

Green turtles depend on seagrass.

The 5,000 dead babies and 1,500 dead mothers involved in the malnutrition-linked maternal mortality among PNG SEAFOOD DEPENDENT people in one year provide further testimony to the real state of the marine environment in SW Pacific waters.

Blaming fishermen and farmers is wrong when evidence of substance indicates the cause of fish AND TURTLE depletion is all the sewage and land use nutrient overload/pollution proliferating algae that is killing seagrass and coral food-web nurseries worldwide.

Humans have a right to know the truth about their food sustainability including affordability of food. Look at the price of common fish and chips these days.

Why are the supposedly gallant media reporters and the government funded ABC not investigating and reporting the true likely state of the marine environment.

It's not the CO2, stupid!

@ Siliggy, Sunday, 17 April 2016 11:26:37 AM

Siliggy,

With reference to your post above.

1. Would a single cell of algae have any specific heat property or characteristic whatsoever?

2. Would a whole massive ocean bloom of algae have any specific heat property or characteristic?

3. On a hot sunny day after sundown, could a significant bloom of ocean algae plant matter warm adjacent water at all or not at all?

I am asking for clear straightforward answers, in your opinion based on your knowledge.