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.
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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Country: 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.
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