Posted on 09/04/2014 12:52:58 PM PDT by EveningStar
According to a study published in Nature, oceanic mercury levels have tripled since the beginning of the Industrial Revolution.
Far surpassing earlier estimates, data collected during research cruises from 2006-2011 in both the Atlantic and Pacific oceans has revealed a 340% increase in surface-level mercury content. During the cruises, deep seawater samples (depths up to 5km) were compared to surface water samples. The analysis implicates the burning of fossil fuels as the primary culprit of this dramatic rise, with mining activities thought to have also contributed a significant amount.
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The sky is falling.......
Those dirty, nasty, bible-thumping, gun-loving,
knuckle-dragging, polluting Christian morons are to blame.
/s/
IMHO
Yup, Fish on Friday.
The doom of us all.
I’ve been surfing in the Manhattan Beach area of California for 30 years and I typically surf several times a week at El Porto which is just north of Manhattan Beach. In my experience, water quality in the Santa Monica Bay has been steadily improving since I started surfing. But don’t take my word for it, checkout the water quality grades at Heal The Bay: http://brc.healthebay.org/?id=43&lat=33.901799&lng=-118.422003&c=10 . Currently, Manhattan Beach gets an A grade for water quality.
Yep I'm guessing it went from 1 part per billion to 3.4 parts per billion (or some similarly infinitesimally small amount). So to get mercury poisoning you would have to eat "only" 50 pounds of tuna a day instead of the 180 pounds you would have had to have eaten before humans "polluted" the oceans.
People have been pointing out this developing scam for nearly a decade now. They need something to replace anthropomorphic global warming as that one peaked five years ago.
One single vent on an undersea volcano can dump three tons of mercury into the sea each year. Volcanic activity in turn dumps less mercury into the ocean than underwater erosion. Human contributions to oceanic mercury are even smaller than human contributions to atmospheric greenhouse gasses.
340 % increase starting from WHAT? One part per billion?
Not this STUFF again! Seems we have to endure the oceans being full of mercury every ten years, or so when some jackass hasn’t anything else to write about.
Show me the mercury level test data pre-industrial revolution and during the industrial revolution, cross referenced by the locations recent testing was done. You can’t do that because your entire article, and the “science” behind it is all based on preposterous GUESSES.
(that is how skepticism is done princess)
Alton Brown from the Food Network pointed out that cheaper “skipjack” tuna has a shorter life span than the more expensive albacore. The theory is that by buying the cheaper tuna you are limiting your exposure. Why not?
by all means take it out of the ocean and put it in our mandatory light bulbs
ugh
[ 340% increase in surface-level mercury content.
Yep I’m guessing it went from 1 part per billion to 3.4 parts per billion (or some similarly infinitesimally small amount). So to get mercury poisoning you would have to eat “only” 50 pounds of tuna a day instead of the 180 pounds you would have had to have eaten before humans “polluted” the oceans. ]
The question is what levels are there that start affecting things living or otherwise....
There are lies, damned lies and statistics, LOL
“I’m sticking with with fried calamari sandwiches— they are lower on the food chain.”
A rubber band sandwich.
HOLY MACKERAL!
Just admit that you want to off six or seven billion human parasites (excluding you and yours, of course) in order to "save the planet."
Wow aren’t we powerful!
Sorry but the ocean was here before us and it will be here long after.
Yes, the fish are poison. And ironically, the oceans are ruined by over fishing.
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