Oceans in Distress Foreshadow Mass Extinction

Oceans in Distress Foreshadow Mass Extinction

by Marlowe Hood

PARIS – Pollution and global warming are pushing the world's oceans to the brink of a mass extinction of marine life unseen for tens of millions of years, a consortium of scientists warned Monday.

Pollution and global warming are pushing the world's oceans to the brink of a mass extinction of marine life unseen for tens of millions of years, a consortium of scientists warned.......
Sponsored by the International Programme on the State of the Ocean (IPSO), the review of recent science found that ocean health has declined further and faster than dire forecasts only a few years ago.

These symptoms, moreover, could be the harbinger of wider disruptions in the interlocking web of biological and chemical interactions that scientists now call the Earth system.

All five mass extinctions of life on the planet, reaching back more than 500 million years, were preceded by many of the same conditions now afflicted the ocean environment, they said.
"The results are shocking," said Alex Rogers, an Oxford professor who heads IPSO and co-authored the report. "We are looking at consequences for humankind that will impact in our lifetime."

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http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2011/06/20-8

Three main drivers are sickening the global marine environment, and all are a direct consequence of humans activity: global warming, acidification and a dwindling level oxygen, a condition known as hypoxia.

the Fukushima release may have some localized effects but will be negligible in the grand scheme of things.

Of course, the millions of tons of coal and fossil fuel ash which drift over and settle on the oceans are radioactive as well. But let's keep the hysteria centered on nukes. Makes perfect sense.

already found 100s of miles away.
doh, seems you are the one mired in "hysteria" :rofl:

and is completely harmless. Don't worry be happy, go back to you regularly scheduled programming.

Capitalism has to go, period.