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I'm not a marine biologist but from what I know the food web does get disrupted. So you have distribution changes of plankton and forage fish, sardines and anchovies, that sort of stuff, they can sometimes starve. And you can have the mass die off as a result of this with seabirds and sea lions. You know, once your top predators start to die it creates all sorts of problems for other parts of it. You also have species migration. Former water species like marlin, they'll move north and that can interfere with established ecosystems and of course it introduces competition for resources. The big one is algal blooms. You can have harmful algal blooms which basically eludes the toxicity and it will kill everything. Fish, other microbes, it's a huge problem. And the impact that we're seeing from this, the immediate impact, is the warm October weather that's been dominating parts of North America, in particular the eastern half of North America. That is a direct result of this glob, the blob as it is, of this glob of well above average water in the north half of the Pacific. So that's essentially leading to this ridging that we've been seeing in wonderful October weather. So there you have it. And that's it for the weather. I don't know if there are any comments, questions, etc. But I'll send it back to Ken, he can field them and I'll answer them. This is Victor Alpha 3, Victor with CX-ray, back to net control.