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Jellyfish in a warming world

January 3rd 2010 01:04
The Consortium for Ocean Leadership got this report from Discovery News and I'm taking it from the Consortium-----

Giant Jellyfish
Here's a great picture from the Consortium showing a giant jellyfish drifting off the coast of Japan
As the debate on global warming rages, a fact remains, regardless of the reason, ocean temperatures are climbing. One indicator of the temperature rise is the proliferation of jellyfish in northern areas. It's that new presence that's affecting fishing harvests in Japan.


Once a rarity, jellyfish swarms now occur almost annually and range along several thousand kilometers of the Japanese coast and even beyond Japan. As numbers of jellyfish sitings climb, they have stopped or hindered fishing in many areas.

Japan is noted because of an indisputable rise in such cases. in some areas fishermen are disappointed to see large percentages of their catch killed by venomous tentacles of the gelatinous masses. Other fishermen have given up in the face of an ecological disaster.

However, trouble is not limited to Japan. Polluted water off the coast of China provide microscopic plankton for "jellies " to feed upon. Further, power and desalination plants in Africa and the Middle East have been shut down and untold numbers of bathers worldwide have been terrorized.


Scientists look at the migration of "jellies" to colder waters as evidence of global warming.





Remember to take the hooks outta yer pocket before ya sit down!



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Comment by Janet Collins

January 3rd 2010 04:40


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An interesting post....particularly for all the global warming skeptics!

Comment by James Rickard

January 3rd 2010 17:17


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Thanks. Regardless if you go with the theory Man is responsible or that the problem is cyclical, I'm convinced of the global warming theory. AND even if you DON'T believe humans are responsible, the fact remains that we are putting too many things in the atmosphere that don't belong there.

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