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...and it worked
Trump President.
Not Clinton.
DID THAT!!!
...and it worked
Scots team’s research finds Atlantic plankton all but wiped out in catastrophic loss of life
research team fears plankton, the tiny organisms that sustain life in our seas, has all but been wiped out after spending two years collecting water samples from the Atlantic.
blames chemical pollution from plastics, farm fertilisers and pharmaceuticals in the water.
Previously, it was thought the amount of plankton had halved since the 1940s, but the evidence gathered by the Scots suggest 90% has now vanished.
The scientists warn there are only a few years left before the consequences become catastrophically clear when fish, whales and dolphins become extinct,
https://www.sundaypost.com/fp/humanity-will-not-survive-extinction-of-most-marine-plants-and-animals/
When phyto and zoo plankton, the bottom of the food chain, disappear or just greatly diminished, the entire oceanic food chain will collapse.
If Biden declares a National Emergency, BigFossil, rightwing hate media, Repugs will sue, before a Trash judge or court like the 5th ing Circuit, of course, to block all of it.
That seems counter intuitive in that plankton convert sunlight through photosynthesis to glucose just like plants (I know, I left out a couple of steps but dumbed it down for Spurstalk) so it seems like fertilizer would be helpful in the process.
The story itself is fertilizer, where's the report?
I know algae loves fertilizer. You would think plankton would. Not arguing, just that it seemed counter intuitive.
Question...since the plankton are now threatened should we start killing whales again since they eat plankton by the billions?
hmm, not sure I follow you there. regardless, the "report" appears to be an extreme outlier with weak data. several takedowns can be found in the thread below.
Ocean Discoveries Are Revising Long-Held Truths about Life
New findings show that the ocean is much more intertwined with our lives than we ever imagined
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/ocean-discoveries-are-revising-long-held-truths-about-life/
World - Beware of bad science reporting: No, we haven’t killed 90% of all plankton
https://www.coastalnewstoday.com/pos...f-all-plankton
You have to go out of your way to post an unclickable linkyou’re seriously the worst.
Some studies suggest up to 8 million people die annually from air pollution
https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/c-chang...ths-worldwide/
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/19/o...e-manchin.html
Manchin Reconciliation Deal Fails to Truly Address Climate Change and
Locks in Fossil Fuel Use
https://www.commondreams.org/newswir...d-locks-fossil
the Cons ution
woke reinsurance companies
https://global.insure-our-future.com...nd-gas-policy/Today, Munich Re, the world’s largest reinsurer, has taken a major step away from oil and gas. Munich Re has committed that as of 1 April 2023 it will no longer invest in or insure contracts/projects exclusively covering the planning, financing, construction or operation of new oil and gas fields, new midstream oil infrastructure and new oil fired power plants.
Munich Re’s policy follows a commitment last week by its syndicate in Lloyd’s of London market to stop underwriting all traditional oil and gas business by January 1, 2023.
quite the mystery
Great thread on this
merchants of doubt all over again
Smh I've seen a couple of docs on Netflix showing those old 1950s black and white news reels with studies about the global warming showing those trends
you dumb mother f*****, you cannot follow a legitimate link?You have to go out of your way to post an unclickable link
You are seriously a stupid
Europe has a similar trick, biomass energy plants burn firewood.
Exxon Got Rich, We Got Played
For decades, Exxon has been
hiding the truth about the climate crisis, burying their own scientific reports.
From 1970 to 2003, the oil company ran studies that accurately predicted the disastrous consequences of continuing to burn fossil fuels.
They modeled out the alarming reality of the disasters we are living in.
They knew that continuing to burn oil would lead to the forest fires that burnt my friend’s house to the ground,
the floods that destroyed the coastal California city I lived in, and
the drought that threatens the water supply of the high-al ude desert where I worked for 10 years.
they lied … and lied … and lied.
All this time has been wasted, 30 years when they could have been putting their skills and strengths to work solving the problem.
Exxon keeps raking in the profits as it imperils us all.
we now also have to pay to clean up the oil companies’ mess.
Environmental disasters cost us billions of dollars this year alone.
We’re paying for it,
either directly as we help friends rebuild their homes or find shelter,
or indirectly through taxes, high prices, economic upheavals, and insurance rate hikes.
Exxon got rich. We got played.
https://www.counterpunch.org/2023/01...we-got-played/
Repugs, eg TX and FL of course, punish anybody who does business with ESG policies.
oh i mean if john stossel says so
but its super convincing because they share clips of annoying teenagers doing stupid things. therefore all the scientists are wrong.
The red team used to like to try to save money by looking closely at long term problems that costs trillions of dollars and try to solve them.
The true red team (not RHINOs) now thinks... they dont think... especially about future generations.
Cool story. You don't like in the da zip code.
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