Saturday 15 July 2023

Great White Sharks off the British Coast around Cornwall - not Climate Change but warm water currents. Here is why...


Great White Sharks Migrate - 
that means they pass the UK Coast as a natural process


Blaming Climate Change for the possibility of seeing Great White Sharks off the UK Coast around Cornwall is both lazy and incorrect.

The actuality is that these apex predator Sharks migrate from North America, down towards the African Cape around to Australia. 

They follow the Gulf Stream, the warm water currents that are created by the tectonic Earth plates releasing warmth from the hot mantle of the Earth into the sea.

These warmth outlets change position as some are closed and others open. This is natural, this has nothing to do with the climate. 

As such the warm water 'paths' that this process creates, change over time, this also influences our weather patterns too. It can indeed change the weather bring meteorological changes over lands where this previously was not a problem or occurrence.

There is evidence that these plates have now created new warmth tracks across the ocean lower down and this means that Great Whites are now found in the mediterranean ocean in more recent times. 

This is a change from the established paths from Florida round the African Cape towards the direction of Australia.

The other effect is that this change of passage means that these Sharks will pass closer to the UK mainland than before and as with the Mako Shark, close to the UK Coast as Mako have been caught in UK waters recently.

It is therefore likely that these super Sharks will soon be positively identified and encountered in our waters closer to land than before. Thanks to nature.




 

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