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Outlook for Oceans Bleak as Sea 'Deserts' Grow
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| 3/6/08
| All Things Considered
Posted on 03/22/2008 9:59:57 AM PDT by ricks_place
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To: ricks_place
Dead Zone is another enviro buzzword that got some play a couple weeks ago. They need everything in their old pollution toolchest to replace Global Warming since that horse died.
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posted on
03/22/2008 10:02:59 AM PDT
by
RightWhale
(Clam down! avoid ataque de nervosa)
To: ricks_place
There is no mystery about the lack of intelligence at NPR. Their radio hosts are actually androids who repeat whatever TPF (Talking Point File) that is fed into them. At present, Algore is responsible for creating the TPFs related to the environment.
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posted on
03/22/2008 10:03:01 AM PDT
by
Army Air Corps
(Four fried chickens and a coke)
To: ricks_place
If it's linked to global warming, as they suspect... You could knock me over with a feather.
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posted on
03/22/2008 10:05:29 AM PDT
by
Minn
(Here is a realistic picture of the prophet: ----> ([: {()
To: RightWhale
Dead Zone is a good name for National PUBIC Radio.
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posted on
03/22/2008 10:08:15 AM PDT
by
AlexW
(Reporting from Bratislava, Slovakia. Happy not to be back in the USA for now.)
To: ricks_place
tiny green phytoplankton in the ocean are a critical foodstuff for life in the oceans. This has all happened since the "Save the Whales" movement, and I know why. Whales eat like Americans, and consume more calories than they really need. They're killing off the plankton with their greed. That, and they tend to vote Republican. I say we start hunting them again to reduce their numbers, before we end up with McCain for President because of this voting bloc.
/insane liberal enviro rant (note - I might have actually been able to post this at DU and get away with it, mostly by blaming the whales for being Republicans).
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posted on
03/22/2008 10:09:49 AM PDT
by
Hardastarboard
(DemocraticUnderground.com is an internet hate site.)
To: ricks_place
A trend that started more than a century ago, when human CO2 output was insignificant, is clearly driven by something other than AGW nonsense.
He says marine scientists using more primitive instruments from ships saw this trend starting long ago, back in the early days of the Industrial Revolution. "We can see that over 100 years, the ocean has gotten clearer and clearer in the center," Falkowski explains. "So this is a long-term trend."
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posted on
03/22/2008 10:14:07 AM PDT
by
Enchante
(Obama: You think Hillary's Ruthless? Hell, I'll Run Over My Own Grandmother to Get Elected!!)
To: ricks_place; xcamel
And it seems to be tied to global warming. Polovina's study, published in Geophysical Research Letters, finds that the areas of low productivity are expanding in lockstep with increasing water temperatures. As surface temperatures warm, that prevents colder water from rising up from the depths. And that colder water carries the nutrients that would feed the algae. Hey igit, the oceans have been cooling for the past couple of years.
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posted on
03/22/2008 10:17:41 AM PDT
by
qam1
(There's been a huge party. All plates and the bottles are empty, all that's left is the bill to pay)
To: RightWhale
My daughter is a geologist. Degree in HydroGeology. She said that the Sahara Desert used to be ocean bottom. I think the earth is a dynamic creation, always changing. Volcanoes, hurricanes, earthquakes, continental plate shift, etc.
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posted on
03/22/2008 10:28:59 AM PDT
by
buffyt
(Glowbull warming/Climate Change - the biggest hoax/fraud/deception of the 21st century.)
To: ricks_place
My marine biology professor lectured us on so called ‘dead zones’ years ago - found in warmer climes, higher salt content means lower plankton, and clearer, bluer water. Common sense would dictate these zones would fluctuate in size, like the ozone hole or ice shields.
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posted on
03/22/2008 10:32:57 AM PDT
by
skeeter
To: ricks_place
Well, glory be. I think we’ve just found the answer to our landfill problem.
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posted on
03/22/2008 10:34:22 AM PDT
by
Texas Eagle
(Could pacifists exist if there weren't people brave enough to go to war for their right to exist?)
To: ricks_place; proud_yank; FrPR; enough_idiocy; rdl6989; TenthAmendmentChampion; Horusra; Normandy; ..
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To: ricks_place
Just as plants make up the base of the food web on land, tiny green phytoplankton in the ocean are a critical foodstuff for life in the oceans. And Jeff Polovina, at a National Marine Fisheries Service lab in Hawaii, has been watching by satellite as that greenery in the middle of the ocean is fading away.
Isn't phytoplankton also the main producer of the oxygen we breathe in the atmosphere? If we are seeing phytoplankton "fading away", shouldn't it have an immediate, measurable impact on oxygen levels?
To: ricks_place
Not so surprising, warm water gives off CO2, cold water absorbs it, algae needs it. Thats why cold water area's provide the most productive fisheries...abundant food supply. Does it really take a PHD to figure that out?
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posted on
03/22/2008 10:48:49 AM PDT
by
D Rider
To: ricks_place
I just sent your comment to NPR’s two news emails and story submission email.
To: ricks_place
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posted on
03/22/2008 11:04:45 AM PDT
by
Cacique
(quos Deus vult perdere, prius dementat ( Islamia Delenda Est ))
To: Yollopoliuhqui
Guess: the middle ocean is nutrient depleted. The GW movement will propose sending land runoff to the deadzone next!
To: buffyt
Yea, most of us learned that in the 3rd grade.
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posted on
03/22/2008 11:26:58 AM PDT
by
sonic109
To: calcowgirl
“Link to Global Warming”
NPR = National Carbon Credit Radio, again and again
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posted on
03/22/2008 11:28:03 AM PDT
by
Shermy
To: ricks_place
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posted on
03/22/2008 11:28:59 AM PDT
by
ASOC
(I know I don't look like much, but I raised a US Marine!)
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