John Gibbons

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1,007 appearances 7 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 2d ago

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The Last Word with Matt Cooper · Fish In Irish Waters Move North Due To Climate Change · 30 Jul 2026 podcast

Sorry, 2001 and 2020, we have overdrawn 24% above our scientific quotas, which amounts, by the way, to taking three quarters of a million tonnes more fish from our waters than science says that they can take.

And of course, this might seem very clever in the short term.

Ah, we're all making money.

What, of course, you're doing is you're strangling the golden goose, if I can mix my metaphors a little bit.

You're running down the stocks.

You're diminishing the ability of marine species to recover.

And, you know, sensible marine stewardship means, for example, that our fisheries minister would follow the scientific advice.

But instead, what they follow is, I'm sorry to say, the lobbyists.

Yeah, it's a very complex picture.

And for example, we have this phenomenon off the coast of southeast Greenland, Matt, which we've talked about before, called the cold blob.

It's the only substantial place in the world that is getting colder.

And the reason it's getting colder is the outflow of hundreds of billions of tonnes of chilled fresh water pouring off the Greenland ice mass.

But the reality is that even allowing for Arctic sea ice melt and Greenland ice inundation, as in melting ice, they are outweighed by the overall increase in water temperature.

And if I can translate this ever so briefly, just to explain what's happening in our oceans.

First of all, 90% of all the heat associated with global warming is drawn down by our oceans.

Now, this is important, Matt, because the surface, the average surface temperature of the Earth is

is about 14, 14.5 degrees centigrade.

That's the entire global surface.

If...

the ocean stopped absorbing that heat, the land surface would jump by 36 degrees to about 50 degrees centigrade.

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