Ocean Life Faces Mass Extinction, Broad Study Says
Source: NY Times
A team of scientists, in a groundbreaking analysis of data from hundreds of sources, has concluded that humans are on the verge of causing unprecedented damage to the oceans and the animals living in them.
“We may be sitting on a precipice of a major extinction event,” said Douglas J. McCauley, an ecologist at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and an author of the new research, which was published on Thursday in the journal Science.
But there is still time to avert catastrophe, Dr. McCauley and his colleagues also found. Compared with the continents, the oceans are mostly intact, still wild enough to bounce back to ecological health.
Read more: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/16/science/earth/study-raises-alarm-for-health-of-ocean-life.html
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Something is not right. 
*Everybody* knows that the oceans are just for yachts and sport fishing. Not for food - food comes from the grocery store.
- Well, the President said that he'd keep us informed if there was anything to worry about. He said that the feds are on-the-case and it's okay to eat the food from the Pacific and to breathe the air coming in from the direction of Fukushima because it's nothing to worry over. So we can all put our faith, our health and our very lives into his capable hands.
So I suppose he'll let us know when we should start worrying.
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- See also -
ABC: ‘Mysterious surge’ in sick marine mammals all along California coast
Unprecedented: ‘Cataclysmic’ die-off of birds on entire West Coast
Scientific Conference: Fukushima a global threat to human health — Radioactivity in food web off Pacific Northwest to “significantly increase” after one year
Fukushima released 13,000,000,000 times more neutrons than initially estimated — “Obvious implication for human health” — Gov’t: “Neutron radiation is the most severe and dangerous radiation” known to mankind; Can travel great distances
