The plankton that is normal along the California coast is all gone - the waters are dead off of the coast of California. It has begun, whatever is happening. The Earth is dying.
"Sea Life In Peril - Plankton Vanishing."
"Oceanic plankton have largely disappeared from waters off Northern California, Oregon and Washington, mystifying scientists, stressing fisheries and causing widespread seabird mortality."
San Francisco Chronicle: Tuesday, July 12 2005; Page A1, Page A11 - Plankton.
Krill Gone - Dead Seas
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Krill Gone - Dead Seas
Dr. Newel
Found Link
OK Found the link.
Sea life in peril -- plankton vanishing
Oceanic plankton have largely disappeared from the waters off Northern California, Oregon and Washington, mystifying scientists, stressing fisheries and causing widespread seabird mortality.
The phenomenon could have long-term implications if it continues: a general decline in near-shore oceanic life, with far fewer fish, birds and marine mammals. No one is certain how long the condition will last. But even a short duration could severely affect seabird populations because of drastically reduced nesting success, scientists say.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.c ... DMMR01.DTL
Sea life in peril -- plankton vanishing
Oceanic plankton have largely disappeared from the waters off Northern California, Oregon and Washington, mystifying scientists, stressing fisheries and causing widespread seabird mortality.
The phenomenon could have long-term implications if it continues: a general decline in near-shore oceanic life, with far fewer fish, birds and marine mammals. No one is certain how long the condition will last. But even a short duration could severely affect seabird populations because of drastically reduced nesting success, scientists say.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.c ... DMMR01.DTL
Dr. Newel
We are on our way out now!
This means that we are on our way out now not 2012 - we are going to be a layer in the earth where there was a massive extinction.
We have destroyed our environment.
We need to create an artificial salt water form of life that can take the place of these krill.
We have destroyed our environment.
We need to create an artificial salt water form of life that can take the place of these krill.
Dr. Newel
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Thanks drnewel for the link visited,......
drnewel,
Not on Fox or CNN; one of the too spooky to show stories.
They treat us like they grow mushrooms. The media keeps us in the dark and feed us horse malarky.
I won't quote Sonny Landham from "Predator" the movie. You watch it and catch the fitting quote.
MK;)
Not on Fox or CNN; one of the too spooky to show stories.
They treat us like they grow mushrooms. The media keeps us in the dark and feed us horse malarky.
I won't quote Sonny Landham from "Predator" the movie. You watch it and catch the fitting quote.
MK;)
" So if your tired of the same old story,.....Oh, turn some pages!" REO Speed Wagon of Champaign - Urbana, Illinois / Robert Lowery, my cousin, was Hollywood's 2nd Batman.
The Honerable Sen. Boxer
I have it on good authority that our United States Senate is doing good things about this:
"Dear Friend:
Protecting our oceans makes good economic and environmental
sense. Our oceans not only provide food and recreation but
also help to regulate our water quality and climate. Some
areas of our ocean are particularly vital, supporting an
abundance of fish and marine mammals. One of these areas is
found just off the coast of Mendocino, Sonoma, Marin, and San
Francisco counties.
I recently joined Congresswoman Lynn Woolsey at a press
conference to highlight our legislation to provide greater
protection to a larger portion of California’s coast. Her bill
in the House, and mine in the Senate, would extend the
boundaries of the Gulf of the Farallones and Cordell Bank
National Marine Sanctuaries to provide better protection to
these areas by making it more difficult to drill for oil in
them.
The area along the Sonoma Coast comprises just 1 percent of the
ocean, but it produces about 20 percent of the world’s fish.
This is an amazingly rich area for both fish and marine mammals
such as whales, seals and sea lions. In fact, this area is the
only place in the world where the endangered blue whale’s
population is increasing.
It is very fitting that we better protect these areas for
generations to come. I am so pleased to be working with
Congresswoman Lynn Woolsey on this important legislation.
Sincerely,
Barbara Boxer United States Senator"
"Dear Friend:
Protecting our oceans makes good economic and environmental
sense. Our oceans not only provide food and recreation but
also help to regulate our water quality and climate. Some
areas of our ocean are particularly vital, supporting an
abundance of fish and marine mammals. One of these areas is
found just off the coast of Mendocino, Sonoma, Marin, and San
Francisco counties.
I recently joined Congresswoman Lynn Woolsey at a press
conference to highlight our legislation to provide greater
protection to a larger portion of California’s coast. Her bill
in the House, and mine in the Senate, would extend the
boundaries of the Gulf of the Farallones and Cordell Bank
National Marine Sanctuaries to provide better protection to
these areas by making it more difficult to drill for oil in
them.
The area along the Sonoma Coast comprises just 1 percent of the
ocean, but it produces about 20 percent of the world’s fish.
This is an amazingly rich area for both fish and marine mammals
such as whales, seals and sea lions. In fact, this area is the
only place in the world where the endangered blue whale’s
population is increasing.
It is very fitting that we better protect these areas for
generations to come. I am so pleased to be working with
Congresswoman Lynn Woolsey on this important legislation.
Sincerely,
Barbara Boxer United States Senator"
Dr. Newel
I too have been reading about the plankton die-off in the Pacific Ocean and I too am deeply concerned. But not about the Earth...
The Earth, as James Lovelock told us more than a quarter of a century ago, is old and wise, and it can take care of itself very, very, very well. But it is the living creatures that inhabit the Earth that stand to suffer immensely from our eco-madness. Of course, life will not disappear on the earth: life, as the mathematician in Jurassic Park used to say, will find a way! But all current sentient beings (as the Buddhists phrase it) would suffer deeply, and man, as the apex of the entire life pyramid, would end up suffering most of all.
So let us do whatever we must to save the plankton. Not in order to save the Earth... But to save ourselves...
The Earth, as James Lovelock told us more than a quarter of a century ago, is old and wise, and it can take care of itself very, very, very well. But it is the living creatures that inhabit the Earth that stand to suffer immensely from our eco-madness. Of course, life will not disappear on the earth: life, as the mathematician in Jurassic Park used to say, will find a way! But all current sentient beings (as the Buddhists phrase it) would suffer deeply, and man, as the apex of the entire life pyramid, would end up suffering most of all.
So let us do whatever we must to save the plankton. Not in order to save the Earth... But to save ourselves...
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"Fuggedah about it, Jake --- it's Chinatown!"
Search' Krill die off' Pacific Ocean'
way too much to ponder.
When one of the foundations blocks are pulled away...
The rest comes tumbling down.
There is so much to worry about. Too much.
http://www.worldchanging.com/archives/003232.html
way too much to ponder.
When one of the foundations blocks are pulled away...
The rest comes tumbling down.
There is so much to worry about. Too much.
http://www.worldchanging.com/archives/003232.html
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We have a similar problem here on the Texas Gulf Coast which just occurred recently. Every year, in a spot along Mategorda Bay, hundreds of thousands of yellow shad will turn up dead. It's actually a natural thing and not due to any "eco-madness" or the "hand of humanity". These fish move, in large numbers, into the shallows. Summer heating causes these shallows to lose oxygen content and numerous fish die, piling up on the shore. The local residents have come to get used to it.
You folks in the California area could be facing a similar problem, what with the recent run of very high temperatures you've been experiencing.
You folks in the California area could be facing a similar problem, what with the recent run of very high temperatures you've been experiencing.
Don't know what to do.
No one knows what to do. When the entire Pacific Coast starts dying...
Dr. Newel
Back To Normal...
According to this everything is back to normal.
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Pacific Coast Ecosystems Return to Normal
By TERENCE CHEA, Associated Press Writer
Tue Aug 16, 8:38 PM ET
SAN FRANCISCO - The northerly winds that sustain the Pacific Coast's marine ecosystems have returned, but their arrival came too late for fish and birds that couldn't survive the unseasonably warm waters.
Coastal ecosystems rely on winds blowing south to push warmer surface waters away from shore and bring up colder water from the ocean bottom. That upwelling of nutrient-rich water feeds massive blooms of plankton — the tiny plant-like organisms that form the basis of the marine food web.
The winds usually start blowing in March or April, but when they didn't arrive this spring, researchers saw the effects up and down the coast — higher ocean temperatures near the shore, very little plankton, a drop in groundfish catches and a spike in dead seabirds on beaches.
The winds finally returned in mid-July and generated the long-delayed upwelling and a dramatic increase in plankton populations, according to researchers who recently returned from ocean-monitoring trips.
"We're not sure why the winds didn't come (in the spring), but the situation has remarkably changed, and the ecosystems seem to be getting back to normal," said William Cochlan, a marine ecologist at San Francisco State University, who spent most of July monitoring algae off the coast of Washington and British Columbia.
Earlier this summer, bird researchers along the coast reported a sharp increase in deaths of seabirds such as common murres, Brandt's cormorants and Cassin's auklets. Marine biologists reported unusually low counts of juvenile salmon and rockfish.
William Peterson, an oceanographer with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration in Newport, Ore., said ocean conditions have normalized off the coasts of California and Oregon, but it's too late for many species.
Peterson and other scientists hope the coastal waters stay cold through the fall and carry over until next spring. They warn that the biological effects of this year's oceanic disruption could be felt for months, or years.
Some researchers suspect that global warming — the rise in temperatures blamed on emissions of greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide — may have played a role in delaying the winds, but a connection is difficult to prove because atmospheric systems are so complex. Peterson wants to bring together scientists from different fields to discuss what happened.
"There's no doubt that the planet's warming, but who knows how it's going to affect the coastal systems," Peterson said. "It certainly was an odd year. If we could figure out what might have caused it, then maybe we could predict it in the future."
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20050817/ap_ ... NlYwM3NTM-
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Pacific Coast Ecosystems Return to Normal
By TERENCE CHEA, Associated Press Writer
Tue Aug 16, 8:38 PM ET
SAN FRANCISCO - The northerly winds that sustain the Pacific Coast's marine ecosystems have returned, but their arrival came too late for fish and birds that couldn't survive the unseasonably warm waters.
Coastal ecosystems rely on winds blowing south to push warmer surface waters away from shore and bring up colder water from the ocean bottom. That upwelling of nutrient-rich water feeds massive blooms of plankton — the tiny plant-like organisms that form the basis of the marine food web.
The winds usually start blowing in March or April, but when they didn't arrive this spring, researchers saw the effects up and down the coast — higher ocean temperatures near the shore, very little plankton, a drop in groundfish catches and a spike in dead seabirds on beaches.
The winds finally returned in mid-July and generated the long-delayed upwelling and a dramatic increase in plankton populations, according to researchers who recently returned from ocean-monitoring trips.
"We're not sure why the winds didn't come (in the spring), but the situation has remarkably changed, and the ecosystems seem to be getting back to normal," said William Cochlan, a marine ecologist at San Francisco State University, who spent most of July monitoring algae off the coast of Washington and British Columbia.
Earlier this summer, bird researchers along the coast reported a sharp increase in deaths of seabirds such as common murres, Brandt's cormorants and Cassin's auklets. Marine biologists reported unusually low counts of juvenile salmon and rockfish.
William Peterson, an oceanographer with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration in Newport, Ore., said ocean conditions have normalized off the coasts of California and Oregon, but it's too late for many species.
Peterson and other scientists hope the coastal waters stay cold through the fall and carry over until next spring. They warn that the biological effects of this year's oceanic disruption could be felt for months, or years.
Some researchers suspect that global warming — the rise in temperatures blamed on emissions of greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide — may have played a role in delaying the winds, but a connection is difficult to prove because atmospheric systems are so complex. Peterson wants to bring together scientists from different fields to discuss what happened.
"There's no doubt that the planet's warming, but who knows how it's going to affect the coastal systems," Peterson said. "It certainly was an odd year. If we could figure out what might have caused it, then maybe we could predict it in the future."
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20050817/ap_ ... NlYwM3NTM-
Dr. Newel