Global Oil Extraction... Earthquakes & Tsunamis...
Plan B . . . Go Green
or... Continue with Plan A . . .
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What is causing the global phytoplankton die off...(40% down)link: http://ecodelmar.org/phytoplankton
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In the "reasonable practice" of following the money....
where do the big bucks go for all that war machinery...
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If plants and trees have grown on Earth for billions of years....why must we genetically modify them to grow now... link: http://ecodelmar.org/roundup/ |
Can we correlate the increase in the last 20 years of global deep oil extraction... and the exponential increase in global earthquakes, as is represented in this graph: http://thehorizonproject.com/earthquakes.cfm The cost of not using alternative energy outweighs the costs of developing it .... what is holding us back?
The cost of Doing Nothing: http://ecodelmar.org/doing_nothing/
How long will we simply live in a state of denial of the global environmental and health damage done from extracting and burning fossil fuels. It is the #1 cause of toxic water and air pollution... it is the #1 cause of cancer... global warming,... ocean acidification... death of first born dolphins and whales... children learning disablities and autism : http://ecodelmar.org/pcb ... never ending wars to make never ending profits for the filthy rich buccaneers... at the experience of the Lives of the poor... made into slaves wearing a uniform and waving a flag... enough is enough... it's way past the time to http://ecodelmar.org/GoGreen/
Most of us simply do not accept the environmental challenges we are all facing... the cumulative changes are almost unthinkable... and no humans have ever lived through what is on the horizon for our grand children...
... Sylvia Earle summed it up in 4 words when she was speaking about the state of the Oceans: "No... Blue... No Green"... http://ecodelmar.org/sylvia/
... The cold hearted corporate mentality that got us into this mess can not fix the problems it has caused... and continues to add more toxic waste to... while the republicans have sold out the Clean Water Act to industry... http://ecodelmar.org/clean_water
... Now Peace and civility are going to be essential to reduce chaos and live sustainably...
... Curbing the CO2 and Ocean Acidification is a top priority... from what NOAA says, the Oceans, (as we know them), are already doomed... http://ecodelmar.org//NOAA/ ... algae and jellyfish will become the norm... and lots of that algae will be in toxic algae blooms... that's what happened when they tried to seed the oceans with iron... now phytoplankton is reported to be 40% down and falling at about 1% per year... and the Oceans are our greatest source of oxygen... the following UNEP video sums this up well: http://ecodelmar.org/UNEP/ ...
... and although more trees are surely needed, plants and trees will start to fail as CO2 levels go higher.... so we will need a wide scale sustainably powered CO2 sequestration technology to bring down the CO2 levels... http://www.nsf.gov/news/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=106861
... and since the military is the largest single consumer of oil on Earth... real Peace is essential to save civilization... http://ecodelmar.org/Green_Military/ ... Peace... and lots of Gardens of Eden... everywhere... and that's a wonderful part of this new possibility... as my friend Shawn Tisdell said so profoundly... "almost every problem we face, can be solved with a garden"... http://ecodelmar.org/garden/
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Green Incentives For Green Energy. Not Nukes!
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shortcut link: http://ecodelmar.org/no_nukes/
CO2 level over the past 160 thousand years
Graph: Atmospheric carbon dioxide concentration (ppmv) and temperature change (°C) observed during the past 160 thousand years and predicted during the next 10 thousand years. Historical carbon dioxide data was collected from Antarctic ice cores; temperature changes through time are relative to the present temperature. Graph adapted from the Whitehouse Initiative on Global Climate Change.
http://EcoDelMar.org/awareness/
Past and future Oceanic pH
Future predictions are
model derived values based on IPCC
mean scenarios (Cambridge University)
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http://EcoDelMar.org/awareness/
..:: "Phytoplankton produce more oxygen than all plant life on Earth and are vital in maintaining the earth’s atmosphere. They are also the organisms most likely to be affected by global warming and climate change.
..:: Fish species will be threatened by increasing acidity ( - pH) through acidosis, which is a buildup of carbonic acid in body fluids leading to death. Hyper-capnia, or excessive carbon dioxide in the blood, threaten fish species of the future. A study concluded that elevated levels of carbon dioxide can result in high levels of mortality for amberjack and halibut.
A recent study concluded that decreases in ocean pH by 0.5 units or more may severely disrupt the internal acid-base balance of sea urchins, which can ultimately result in their death.
Cephalopods such as squid might be particularly affected by increased oceanic carbon dioxide because they require very high amounts of oxygen supply to the blood to sustain their energy-demanding method of swimming. Lower levels of pH can impair oxygen supplies in these species, reducing oxygen capacity by about 50 percent with a pH decrease of 0.25 units.
http://www.terrain.org/articles/21/burns.htm
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..:: as the ocean loses its ability to absorb carbon dioxide, its ability to regulate our global climate and supply oxygen will falter, resulting in reduced breathable oxygen....
http://treehugger.com/files/2010/07/today-on-planet-100-ocean-acidification-101-video.php
..:: Ocean Acidification and the Effects to Open Ocean and Coastal Ecosystems Presentation by Dr. Richard Feely, AGU Fellow and Supervisory Oceanographer at the NOAA Marine Environmental Laboratory.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NelQ2cxoEUc
..:: With NOAA under the dept of "commerce"... how can we expect anything but "business" as usual....
..:: "Ocean Acidification is now irreversible during our lifetimes...
It will take tens of thousands of years for ocean chemistry to return to a condition similar to that occurring at pre-industrial times (about 200 years ago)....
Our ability to reduce ocean acidification through artificial methods such as the addition of chemicals is unproven. These techniques will at best be effective only at a very local scale, and could also cause damage to the marine environment...
Reducing CO2 emissions to the atmosphere is the only practical way to minimize the risk of large-scale and long term changes to the oceans...
http://www.global-greenhouse-warming.com/ocean-acidification.html
..:: "For all practical purposes in our lifetime... Ocean Acidification is "permanent", Emerson said.
..:: A San Francisco environmental group, the Center for Biodiversity, has asked 10 states — Washington, Oregon, California, Alaska, Hawaii, Florida, New York, New Jersey, Maine and Delaware — to declare their coastal waters "impaired" under the Clean Water Act because of rising acidity. Such a move could clear the way for the states to regulate carbon-dioxide emissions.
"Though the SCIENCE is there, the "political will" is NOT there," said Miyoko Sakashita, a lawyer for the Center for Biodiversity. "At least this will raise awareness among policymakers."
Though cuts in carbon dioxide and other greenhouse-gas emissions might slow or reverse global warming, scientist say it could take thousands of years or longer to reverse the increased acidity of the oceans.
"For all practical purposes in our lifetime... Ocean Acidification is "permanent", Emerson said.
http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2007/12/16/23138/oceans-growing-acidity-alarms.html
..:: The report, in Science magazine, brings together dozens of studies that collectively paint a dismal picture of deteriorating ocean health.
..:: "This is further evidence we are well on our way to the next great extinction event," said Ove Hoegh-Guldberg, the director of the Global Change Institute at the University of Queensland in Australia and a co-author of the report.
http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2010/07/04/96966/report-oceans-deteriorating-health.html
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phyto-plankton dropping... http://www.i-sis.org.uk/O2DroppingFasterThanCO2Rising.php
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Nature :: worldwide supply of phytoplankton has dropped by about 40% since 1950... http://motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2010/07/phytoplankton-dammerung
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CO2 is killing Oceans' Microscopic 'LUNGS' :: http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/climate-change/climate-change-is-killing-the-oceans-microscopic-lungs-427402.html
Methane release from the not-so-perma-frost..
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... is the most dangerous amplifying feedback in the entire carbon cycle. The permafrost contains a staggering “1.5 trillion tons of frozen carbon, about twice as much carbon as contained in the atmosphere,” much of which would be released as methane. Methane is is 25 times as potent a heat-trapping gas as CO2 over a 100 year time horizon, but 72 times as potent over 20 years! The carbon is locked in a freezer in the part of the planet warming up the fastest (see “Tundra 4: Permafrost loss linked to Arctic sea ice loss“). Half the land-based permafrost would vanish by mid-century on our current emissions path (see “Tundra, Part 2: The point of no return” and below). No climate model currently incorporates the amplifying feedback from methane released by a defrosting tundra...
http://climateprogress.org/2011/01/13/science-kiehl-ncar-paleoclimate-lessons-from-earths-hot-past/
Fracking Millions of Gallons of Hazardous Chemicals
Injected Into US Water Supply Wells...
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/17/science/earth/17gas.html
Oil and gas companies put toxic chemicals into wells in a drilling process known as hydraulic fracturing, according to a Congressional study.
Hydrofracking Pushed By Agents Instructed
To Mislead Landowners: Report
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/04/18/post_676_n_850425.html
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... sometimes i wonder if the big gas, oil, and industrial cahoots are not just getting rid of their mega-tons of stockpiles of chemical waste by "fracking" it deep into the Earth and into the Gulf... because it saves them money by not hav...ing to recycle it... and those buccaneering knuckle-headed tycoons could care less about coral reefs, dolphins and whales... it's all about protecting their cash cow(s)... what ever happened to protecting our Oceans and The Clean Water Act: http://ecodelmar.org/clean_water
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and all those PCBs...
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http://ecodelmar.org/pcb
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It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society. ~Krishnamurti
It is not only for what we do that we are held responsible, but also for what we do not do. ~Moliere
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http://EcoDelMar.org/ocean_awareness
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Is the FDA: Subsidiary of Monsanto?
By Betty Martini, Mission Possible International
Dear Dr. Friedman:
Is this why you looked at the case histories of those who suffered shattered lives from the agony of Aspartame Disease for years, and did absolutely NOTHING!? Or is this Monsanto’s reward for your lack of concern of this plague on the consumer public in 100 countries. You worked for the ( government sponsored!) National Cancer Institute??!! And you read the Bressler Report, the FDA audit, showing aspartame triggered brain tumors, mammary tumors, ovarian tumors, pancreatic tumors, uterine tumors, pituitary adenomas, etc., etc., and turned the other way, even sent the cases where victims died from these brain tumors. Just silence. No wonder when Dr. Olney made world news about the brain tumor/aspartame connection you got on 60 Minutes defending Monsanto. How long has this position been considered? How relevant it was for Dr. Virginia Weldon (V.P.for Public Policy at Monsanto) to have also been on that show since later she was considered for the FDA Commissioner post. Perhaps you can understand why I call the FDA, Monsanto’s Washington Branch Office.
I told you previously Monsanto who made Celebrex knows aspartame hardens the synovial fluids and triggers agonizing joint pain. This is their way to make even more money on the victims treating the problem their product caused. Now that it has been publicized that 10 people died in 13 weeks and the other problems I guess we won’t expect the FDA to recall it -especially now that you will work for the company.
http://dorway.com/history-of-aspartame/monsanto/monsanto-names-former-fda-chief-as-vp-of/
About Me
larry_l
Flagler Beach, FL USA
Getting the Ocean's health into perspective.
As scientist Jim Lovelock observed, "Although the weight of the Oceans is 250 times that of the atmosphere, it is only one part in 4,000 of the weight of the Earth."
1/4000 = 0.00025
Therefore, only 0.025 % of Earth's mass is Water. Yet we tend to think of our Oceans as vast and an endless resource, free to everyone.
Scientists also point out, "If the Earth were a globe 12 inches in diameter, the average depth of the ocean would be no more than the thickness of a piece of paper, and even the Deepest Ocean Trench would only be a tiny dent, one third of a millimeter deep. (0.3 mm = 0.01 in)
Since the Ocean's mass is 0.025% that of Earth's, our Oceans can be appreciated as the scarce and only living Oceans in the entire universe. Mars might have some frozen mud.
Knowing the Earth's "surface" is 70.8% water, often leads the public to jump to a popular conclusion... there might be more Ocean than Earth.
Unfortunately, this popular conclusion leads to a "global assumption"... that pollution might be absorbed and simply rendered harmless... within the Ocean's vastness.
Millions of Tons of toxic chemicals are discarded into rivers worldwide, while the industry leaders "cross their fingers" in a futile false hope that the chemicals will quietly be absorbed by the living Oceans.
Plastic does not really "break down", but it does break into tiny bits of plastic "dust". PCB's, already in the Ocean, are attracted to the plastic bits like a magnetic sponge. Marine animals eat the plastic bits, and become toxic with PCB's, causing immune system failure.
As the toxins slowly distribute worldwide by the Ocean's conveyor belt currents, the entire food chain is affected, from the tiny coral polyps that make world's largest reefs, to whales feeding on plankton and other particles suspended in the water column, including PCB laden plastic "dust".
An impairment to the immune systems of living creatures is being observed globally, from the tiny coral polyps, to the giant killer whales, and finally the humans themselves, seated at the top of the food chain, consuming the industrial leftovers, that do not bio-degrade in nature for hundreds of years.
Now PCB's are being dumped onto agricultural land or incinerated into the atmosphere by industry in another futile attempt to rid themselves of chemicals they synthesized and are responsible for. I say the manufacture must not be allowed to dump these toxic chemicals in the rivers and must take them back for recycling: http://ecodelmar.org/TakeItBack/
While we are still scrambling to name the new coral reef diseases, and counting growing number of species that are becoming extinct, all the while with more funding going to concern over the stock market.
As a free nation... we the people... spent more of our own tax dollars exploring the mud on Mars than protecting the only "Living Oceans" in the known universe... as our planet become less inhabitable for humans. Who is really steering this over-heating planet, big business persons? Is bowing to the stock market index given a higher priority than the World's Ocean Health index, in Washington... http://ecodelmar.org/MBA_blindness
As we all awaken to the collapse of our Oceans, finally we begin to see the consequences of giving the "green light" to industry for dumping millions of tons of "known toxins" into the only known living Oceans in the entire universe.
Jacques-Yves Cousteau, must be looking down on the Oceans and their bleached coral reefs... with salty tears in his eyes. Link to The Cousteau Team results: http://EcoDelMar.org/results
Our Oceans
We have the only living Oceans in the entire universe, unless you know of another one.
Our planet is running full-steam-ahead by giant industrial strength polluters.
Industrial pollution is impairing the immune system of life in the Oceans.
Tons of toxic chemicals are still being dumped into rivers worldwide by industrial giants, who will destroy the Oceans, in order to make more profit.
home page:
http://EcoDelMar.org
Info about PCBs:
http://EcoDelMar.org/pcb
Cousteau Team results
http://EcoDelMar.org/results
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about me:
http://EcoDelMar.org/maya
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