Climate Change Affecting Norwegian Farmed Salmon

Due to a report from E-Wire scientists, members of the Cooperative Research Centre for Greenhouse Accounting, issued a Communiqué from their 2005 Annual Science Meeting.

"Atmospheric temperatures are increasing, oceans are becoming warmer, sea levels are rising, rainfall patterns are changing. The amount of sunlight reaching the earth's surface directly is falling, as are evaporation rates from land-based water bodies and potential evaporation rates from the soil and vegetation," they said.

This is serious matters, and we may see consequenses of this in Norway as up to 5% of farmed Atlantic salmon has some deformities. These deformities are perhaps linked to pollution, but may also be linked to too fast growing. From Planet Ark we can read:

Reasons for the deformities were unknown but could include an imbalance of minerals in feed, polluted water, cramped pens or the wrong temperatures for water.

Is there a link between "the wrong temperatures for water" and global warming? Probably.