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Dead Oceans Anonymous Wed Jun 22 22:08:52 2011 No.3269884 [Reply] [Original]

LONDON -- The world's oceans are degenerating far faster than predicted and marine life is facing extinction due to a range of human impacts - from over-fishing to climate change - a report compiled by international scientists warned Tuesday.

The cumulative impact of "severe individual stresses," ranging from climate warming and sea-water acidification to widespread chemical pollution and overfishing, would threaten the marine environment with a catastrophe "unprecedented in human history."

The conclusions were published by a panel of international scientists who reviewed recent research at a workshop at Oxford University, in Britain. They will be presented to the United Nations in New York later this week for discussions on reforming governance of the oceans.

http://www.sacbee.com/2011/06/21/3716917/scientists-warn-that-oceans-marine.html

What do you think /sci/? If we can't fish, I think this would potentially lead humanity to extinction itself.

>>	Inurdaes !V1sPhobos. Wed Jun 22 22:09:52 2011 No.3269888 File: 38 KB, 631x481, 1292385719797.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] This makes baby Mad Scientist cry.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 22 22:11:52 2011 No.3269897 >>3269888 totally unrelated but why are they called 'macros'? where does the 'macro' come into an image? they're not even big images

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 22 22:15:28 2011 No.3269916 File: 17 KB, 250x250, 1308795313047.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>3269888 ?Comic Sans and not Courier New.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 22 22:16:52 2011 No.3269923 File: 17 KB, 250x250, 2011.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>3269888 >Comic Sans and not Courier New.

>>	Inurdaes !V1sPhobos. Wed Jun 22 22:17:52 2011 No.3269925 >>3269916 I didn't make it. >>3269897 Why is anything called anything? Because the label stuck.

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Anonymous Wed Jun 22 22:21:52 2011 No.3269944

>>3269884
Most major fish populations have been reduced by 90%. It won't be good if the oceans turn into big bacteria soup puddles. People will starve.

>also it's kinda too late to change this shit. People won't stop any of this until the oceans are sterile.

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>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 22 22:23:52 2011 No.3269952 >mfw OP and scientists just want to hurt profits with their hippie nonsense

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 22 22:28:52 2011 No.3269968 File: 10 KB, 221x228, 1300040692931.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] We don't need the ocean, Op. We will have the nerd rapture and FTL space travel to other worlds.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 22 22:28:52 2011 No.3269969 >>3269952 can't profit from fishing if there are no fish.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 22 22:29:52 2011 No.3269973 as a marine biologist who has done work with dead zones, ive seen firsthand how bad things can get and i pray it doesnt get worse. but as a marine biologist, i kinda hope it does because i could really use a job

>>	Inurdaes !V1sPhobos. Wed Jun 22 22:32:52 2011 No.3269983 File: 125 KB, 508x508, 1301817776463.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>3269968 I frown at you.

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Anonymous Wed Jun 22 22:32:52 2011 No.3269988

we are headed for some dark times

ocean acidification is going to seriously fuck shit up. anything with a calcium carbonate skeleton is fucked, so there go corals and everything that depends on corals for an ecosystem. increased acidity dramatically lowers creature's abilities to extract oxygen from the water, so most will slowly suffocate. overfishing takes care of what's left

on the bright side, jellyfish arent bothered by these things, and will soon inherit the ocean. and jellyfish are cool

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 22 22:33:52 2011 No.3269992 Resources exist to be consumed. And consumed they will be, if not by this generation then by some future. By what right does this forgotten future seek to deny us our birthright? None I say! Let us take what is ours, chew and eat our fill.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 22 22:39:52 2011 No.3270017 >>3269973 You'll have a job right up until you starve to death in your fruitless efforts.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 22 22:42:52 2011 No.3270041 File: 20 KB, 150x100, Scared_Yotsuba_by_Mr_Kory.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] If this causes a chain reaction that kills off phytoplankton somehow, we are fucked.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 22 22:43:52 2011 No.3270047 File: 154 KB, 348x332, Picture 8.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>3269988 >mfw people don't like to eat jelly fish and will die trying anyway.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 22 22:45:52 2011 No.3270055 Aren't the ocean currents slowing?

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Anonymous Wed Jun 22 22:46:52 2011 No.3270062

>>3270041

>>If this causes a chain reaction that kills off phytoplankton somehow, we are fucked.

nah, we'll just build machinery to process the atmosphere and keep the insides of buildings breathable, and wear masks for breathing whenever we go outside.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 22 22:48:52 2011 No.3270071 >>3270062 So, it'll be like living on Mars without actually going there. Cool! ... ... ... ...wait, wut?

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 22 22:51:52 2011 No.3270080 >>3269992 I heard someone compare what we're doing to bacteria in a bucket of sugar water. They will grow and grow, and consume until there is no food left and they poison themselves with their waste.

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Anonymous Wed Jun 22 22:52:52 2011 No.3270093
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LULz at the people who think destroying biodiversity is profitable. How is taking the results of an organic chemistry research project that has been churning out useful, complex proteins for 4 billion years and torching them for short term gains profitable?

In an ideological space like this its not about profit, some people actually like the idea of destroying it. Freud's death instinct maybe?

>>	Inurdaes !V1sPhobos. Wed Jun 22 22:53:52 2011 No.3270095 >>3270071 Areoform Earth, terraform Mars. ...I'm not okay with this.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 22 22:55:52 2011 No.3270108 >>3270093 >for short term gains profitable? Monsanto figured it out.

>>	Insinuates gODS Wed Jun 22 22:57:52 2011 No.3270115 Overcrowding and overpopulation is Cool! Ask your local creationist!

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 22 22:58:52 2011 No.3270122 >>3270093 That's the thing. Short term gains are profitable NOW and, historically, people suck at holding out for the future.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 22 23:00:52 2011 No.3270132 In America, we sell debt to other countries.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 22 23:05:52 2011 No.3270168 >>3270132 Is that why China sold off all the debt and bonds they bought from America?

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 22 23:23:52 2011 No.3270264 >>3269992 >>3269992 >>3269992 not so fast Morganite!

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>>	Anonymous Thu Jun 23 01:06:52 2011 No.3270422 Honestly, why we cant have a worldwide moratorium on commercail fishing for even 6 months to let the ocean regenerate is beyond me.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jun 23 01:08:52 2011 No.3270434 File: 328 KB, 692x850, yougonnagetraped.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>3270325 NO U

>>	Anonymous Thu Jun 23 01:22:52 2011 No.3270485 >>3270422 Why can't we impose energy efficiency standards on home construction, which study after study has found to have negative cost?