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The Scariest Climate Change Graph Just Got Scarier

POSTED BY: 1KIKI
UPDATED: Tuesday, March 26, 2013 06:47
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Thursday, March 21, 2013 7:14 PM

SIGNYM

I believe in solving problems, not sharing them.


Yes, unfortunately CTS falls into the category of "always right", along with a few other people on the board. New information, or information which contradicts what they "believe" to be true, is not to be entertained.

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Sunday, March 24, 2013 5:52 PM

SIGNYM

I believe in solving problems, not sharing them.


As I said
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So what I see happening, in a nutshell, is the population rising, energy consumption going up, resources becoming progressively scarcer.

Oh, there will be movements to save this or that or another... marine preserves, "biogems", areas of unique biological or resource significance, but one by one they will be poached, mined, drilled, or drained out of existance. And what we don't actively pollute, bulldoze, or extract into oblivion will be killed off by rising temperatures, abnormal nitrogen deposition, and invasive species.

Case in point

Overfished and under-protected: Oceans on the brink of catastrophic collapse

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...Many marine scientists consider overfishing to be the greatest of these threats. The Census of Marine Life, a decade-long international survey of ocean life completed in 2010, estimated that 90% of the big fish had disappeared from the world's oceans, victims primarily of overfishing....

The situation is even worse in Southeast Asia. In Indonesia, people are now fishing for juvenile fish and protein that they can grind into fishmeal and use as feed for coastal prawn farms. "It's heading towards an end game," laments Roberts.

Trawling towards disaster

One particular type of fishing, bottom-trawling, is blamed for some of the worst and unnecessary damage. It involves dropping a large net, around 60 meters-wide in some cases, into the sea and dragging it along with heavy weights from a trawler.

Marine conservationists compare it to a bulldozer, with the nets pulled for as far as 20km, picking up turtles, coral and anything else in their path. The bycatch, unwanted fish and other ocean life thrown back into the sea, can amount to as much as 90% of a trawl's total catch....

Hurrah for humans! The locust that walks on two legs!

http://www.cnn.com/2013/03/22/world/oceans-overfishing-climate-change/
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Sunday, March 24, 2013 10:36 PM

SIGNYM

I believe in solving problems, not sharing them.


Hey, just putting the "real" back in Real World Events. It might just be too real for some.

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Monday, March 25, 2013 2:37 PM

MAGONSDAUGHTER

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Tuesday, March 26, 2013 6:47 AM

NIKI2

Gettin' old, but still a hippie at heart...


Everything you just said, Sig, as usual. The idea that human actions could negatively affect THE OCEANS should make people rethink their conviction that the ATMOSPHERE is too big for us to have influenced, but it never will. Unfortunately for all of us.

Just 'cuz:






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