Oceans in Distress Foreshadow Mass Extinction

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Oceans in Distress Foreshadow Mass Extinction
   
Oceans in Distress Foreshadow Mass Extinction

by Marlowe Hood

PARIS – Pollution and global warming are pushing the world's oceans to the brink of a mass extinction of marine life unseen for tens of millions of years, a consortium of scientists warned Monday.

Pollution and global warming are pushing the world's oceans to the brink of a mass extinction of marine life unseen for tens of millions of years, a consortium of scientists warned.......
Sponsored by the International Programme on the State of the Ocean (IPSO), the review of recent science found that ocean health has declined further and faster than dire forecasts only a few years ago.

These symptoms, moreover, could be the harbinger of wider disruptions in the interlocking web of biological and chemical interactions that scientists now call the Earth system.

All five mass extinctions of life on the planet, reaching back more than 500 million years, were preceded by many of the same conditions now afflicted the ocean environment, they said.
"The results are shocking," said Alex Rogers, an Oxford professor who heads IPSO and co-authored the report. "We are looking at consequences for humankind that will impact in our lifetime."

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http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2011/06/20-8

Three main drivers are sickening the global marine environment, and all are a direct consequence of humans activity: global warming, acidification and a dwindling level oxygen, a condition known as hypoxia.

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http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439x1334475

And these same people laugh at Harold Camping for predicting the rapture, when he has the same track record as the climate experts. In the 80's I kept hearing how by 2000 the oceans would be dead. Here we are 2011 and last time I was at the ocean a few weeks ago, there was plenty of life. Even the BP oil spill didn't manage to kill off everything.

[I_B_Perky]

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439x1334475

And these same people laugh at Harold Camping for predicting the rapture, when he has the same track record as the climate experts. In the 80's I kept hearing how by 2000 the oceans would be dead. Here we are 2011 and last time I was at the ocean a few weeks ago, there was plenty of life. Even the BP oil spill didn't manage to kill off everything.

Not to mention the impending ice age in the 70's. I got an article on my other PC that talks about how the so called scientists of the time were sounding the alarm, for the last 100 or so years, and how they have gone back and forth between the Earth is warming and cooling. Sorry. The Earth is gonna do what it is gonna do. It's called nature.

I can remember back in the late 70's Robin Williams making fun of Earth day on his HBO standup comedy.  The gist of it was that we didn't need to save the Earth... we needed to save us. A quote: "We could blow the world to death, destroy us all, and bzzzzt! mother nature appears and says: "I'm BAAAACK!"   

[Vagabond]

They are right that acidification and hypoxia of the oceans that is being caused by pollution are serious problems that we (humankind) need to work at.  Look at the problems in the sea of Japan being caused by the massive pollution China is generating and dumping into their rivers.

These scientists are not the hysterics the liberals make them out to be.  Very often what is written in the body of the report differs greatly from the soundbite that the first paragraph has.  The scientists write that first paragraph because they know future grant money depends upon their cooperation with the statist forces of the grant foundations, corporations, and the governments.

The solutions that can be developed to address the issues may even prove to be more efficient than what we do now, but statists aren't interested in either solutions or ideas.

[GOBUCKS]

They are right that acidification and hypoxia of the oceans that is being caused by pollution are serious problems that we (humankind) need to work at.

Acid rain! A blast from the past! Remember the 70s, maybe the 80s, when acid rain was going to destroy every evergreen forest in the eastern half of North America? Time and Newsweek would run photos of dead pine trees in New England and Canada, murdered by emissions from coal-burning power plants. We had to shut down those power plants to prevent the maritime provinces of Canada from becoming bare deserts. Then they invented global warming, and decided we needed to shut down those power plants to save the earth. At the same time, they decided the dead trees were due to gypsy moths.

I think environmental science was developed by vesta.

[Vagabond]

Acid rain! A blast from the past! Remember the 70s, maybe the 80s, when acid rain was going to destroy every evergreen forest in the eastern half of North America? Time and Newsweek would run photos of dead pine trees in New England and Canada, murdered by emissions from coal-burning power plants. We had to shut down those power plants to prevent the maritime provinces of Canada from becoming bare deserts. Then they invented global warming, and decided we needed to shut down those power plants to save the earth. At the same time, they decided the dead trees were due to gypsy moths.

I think environmental science was developed by vesta.

Liberals running around in hysterics is good for comedic value and little else.  Just because a liberal is running around in a circle doesn't mean a problem shouldn't be addressed.  Rivers in the Northeast United States did get polluted enough to catch on fire.  That stream that flows by the Rolling Rock Beer factory that they like to brag about, was once so polluted by the same factory that nothing lived there,  until the government stepped in and made them clean it up. 

The pH levels in areas like the Sea of Japan are being so dramatically effected that it is leading to jellyfish swarms, and pollution is at least a primary cause of the change.  The chemicals involved are industrial pollutants and human waste beign dumped into the ocean. 

[jukin]

Apparently the ocean scientists are not getting their fair share of the AGW grant money.

Well played ocean scientists!

I smell 8 billion dollars in NSF and NOAA grants coming to you.

[Vagabond]

Apparently the ocean scientists are not getting their fair share of the AGW grant money.

Well played ocean scientists!

I smell 8 billion dollars in NSF and NOAA grants coming to you.

What if the solutions that the ocean scientists suggest is modernized and larger waste mangement and treatment facilities and some sort of system to filter out the amount of top soil that is washing onto the ocean?   Would they be shilling for the waste management and fertilizer industries then?  That is what they have suggested would work.

[ReaganForRushmore]

Remember Ted Danson predicting that all the trees would be gone in ten years, way back in the 90's?

[SSG Snuggle Bunny]

Pollution and global warming are pushing the world's oceans to the brink of a mass extinction of marine life unseen for tens of millions of years

If pollution = mass extinction what caused the mass extinction tens of millions of years ago?

I also like this little subliminal propaganda nugget:

...Sponsored by the International Programme on the State of the Ocean (IPSO)...

IPSO...as in ipso facto

Ipso facto is a Latin phrase, directly translated as "by the fact itself," which means that a certain effect is a direct consequence of the action in question, instead of being brought about by a subsequent action such as the verdict of a tribunal.

"Verdict first, trial later!"

[Wineslob]

All five mass extinctions of life on the planet, reaching back more than 500 million years, were preceded by many of the same conditions now afflicted the ocean environment, they said.

Damn that human caused climate chan.....................................oh.................

[DLR Pyro]

Oceans in Distress Foreshadow Mass Extinction