Posted on 04/23/2008 12:59:57 PM PDT by YourAdHere
The story is about climate change, and when I saw the accompanying photo of a fish lying at the bottom of a dried lake, I immediately screamed fake. Take a look, there's no way the buzzards or other predators wouldn't have picked it clean in the time it took for the lake to evaporate.
Agree, fake.
IMHO.
Al Gore has pretty much all but admitted that he uses hyperbole to bring the GW issue to the forefront. Guess that was a green light for the supposedly truthseeking media to fake photos and videos because it advances a story.
I think you’re on to something.
The ground is dessicated, the fish is not. Fake.
Damn. Looks like the author just went to a photo bank and pulled up a stock photo. That's Billy Bass's take on it.
That just has to be a real picture guys come on.
It looks like a real dead fish, and something that is all dried up.
Maybe it is a close up of Obama’s behind.
I watched 20/20 with John Stossel the other day. They had a story about how Algore used computer generated footage from the movie, “The day after tommorow” in his movie. The film shows algore lecturing the audience and describing how tall and beautiful the ice was. It was completely fake. Too funny.
Where’s the doll???????
Slim fishing in that lake,I’ll stick with fishing for trout in rivers.
I was looking for that nice, clean little teddy bear, myself...
Oh no! That’s my Cousin Earl!
LOL!
Ping!
You know what? I think you’re right.
GOOD CATCH!
Global warming killed the buzzards so they couldn’t eat the fish. I agree it looks fake. When lakes dry out the fish congregate at the lower point. There wouldn’t be just one fish and nothing else. Wheres the other stuff thats in lakes?
the photo isn’t a photoshop though. They just threw the dried fish onto the lakebed for the picture.
At least it wasn’t a polar bear.
They could have done a much better job photoshopping that photo-like having New Orleans looterman walking across the lake bed with a tub of dead fish (instead of Heineken).
What kind of fish is it?
Anyone know?
and this fish is recently dead - still round and plump. Had it died due to lack of water, it would have - well, been eaten by now - but otherwise, flat and mostly rotted...
lame attempt. And one can always find a small spot of dried river bed, especially after spring run off.
Actually, this looks more like a dried puddle -
Then there's this new mantra;
"Food shortages: how will we feed the world?"
It's just the opposite. It was during the last warming period that people prospered at an unprecedented rate...warmer weather, more crops in wider ranges...
We let these people continue their dog and pony show to our great peril. It's all about control
Fish always group together when the water is going down, and you will find them all at the lowest point, dead in one big pile. pretty rare to find a loner like that.
The fish looks salted.
Till two years ago, the world’s biggest supplier of virtual water was Australia. It exported a staggering 70 cubic kilometres of water a year in the form of crops, mainly food. Drought has more than halved that figure. It may never recover.
Actually, that fish looks really dried out - it could possibly be over a month since it died, but my best guess is 2-3 weeks. In repsonse to the original poster, scavengers don’t always pick dead fish clean, for whatever reason. I worked at a beach for the last several summers, and it’s not uncommon to find fish carcasses washed up in similar states of decomposition and no scavengers touching them at all, just the forces of nature eroding it away.
http://www.nancarrow-webdesk.com/warehouse/storage2/2008-w11/img.164469.html
A dead fish is seen at a dried-up reservoir on the outskirts of Yingtan, Jiangsi province March 21, 2008. Water shortages are on the rise — stemming from soaring demand, growing populations, rising living standards and changing diets. A lack of supply is compounded by pollution and climate change. The United Nations General Assembly has designated March 22 of each year as the World Day for Water. Picture taken March 21, 2008. REUTERS/Stringer (CHINA). CHINA OUT. NO COMMERCIAL OR EDITORIAL SALES IN CHINA.
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He’s not dead. He’s pining.
Well, sure, but does your beach ever look like baked clay, as it does in this picture?
I’m looking for the rescue worker/victim with the green cap.
He’s resting. Look....he just moved.
wonder if they killed this fish for a prop
Not to mention, eaten instead of whole?
Yeah, I’ll buy that. Everyone knows that fish go off by themselves to die on a dry lakebed. /sarc
Pining for the fjords!
Your right, looks staged!
It was the only fish in the lake. This is a terrible loss!
Did they have anything to do with this? I can't remember.
Does he sing, “Take Me to the River”?
ad nauseam!!
Australia has terrible periodic droughts (for millenia, as shown in the geological record as well as the biology of Australian life forms), that hurt European agriculture that is not really made for the Australian environment.
Man's ingenuity makes it work, however. I trust the Aussies to make it back, once the rains start up again. And they will.
As an aside, Australia's continental drift is taking it North. Eventually, it will become more tropical and should become much wetter. Of course, Indonesia and North Australia will merge into a vast mountain range like the Himalayas, but the snowment should also keep it wet!
There was a big fish kill in my ex-girlfriend’s pond in Temecula last year. Hundreds of fish died and decomposed. Predatory birds (there were lots of them around) wouldn’t touch them. Fish and Game guy told me the birds went after live fish, for some reason the local large birds didn’t go in for the already dead variety.
There was a big fish kill in my ex-girlfriend’s pond in Temecula last year. Hundreds of fish died and decomposed. Predatory birds (there were lots of them around) wouldn’t touch them. Fish and Game guy told me the birds went after live fish, for some reason the local large birds didn’t go in for the already dead variety.
there is no way a dead fish would be on top of the dried up lake. It would be in the mud.
The first time you hear it, it is entertaining, you gotta admit.
I don’t know, it’s literally almost all rocks. I always thought those kinds of cracks occurred when stuff quickly dried up, though (like, if someone drained the lake during a particularly dry season). In any case, I don’t think it’s faked, but the fish could just have easily died before the lake dried up, or washed up on a part of the shore that was dried up, or whatever. I think it’s one of those things where the news service just saw a picture that looked relevant and made up an explanation that suited them.
“That was you just now!”
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