Posted on 06/26/2021 4:27:37 PM PDT by algore
The first description of mare sporco, or “dirty sea,” in Italian dates back to 1729. But in the early 2000s, marine mucilage started breaking out pretty much every year, which scientists, in a 2009 paper, linked to climate change.
(Huge swaths of marine mucilage have also turned up near Turkey at least once before, in 2007.)
You might think of the snot as a symptom of “ocean flu,” says Antonio Pusceddu, a marine ecologist at the University of Cagliari, in Italy, who co-authored that paper:
The snot’s appearance is a sign of deeper sickness in the sea, caused by climate change and pollution.
Slime in the sea is not inherently unusual. “Mucus is everywhere,” says Michael Stachowitsch, a marine ecologist at the University of Vienna.
“There’s no marine organism that doesn’t produce mucus, from the lowly snail to the slimy fish.” But in healthy waters, mucus doesn’t amass to epic proportions. The current sea-snot outbreak can be blamed on phytoplankton, a type of algae that produces the small bits of mucus that turn into flakes of marine snow.
When these phytoplankton receive an infusion of imbalanced nutrients from fertilizer runoff or untreated wastewater, they make an overabundance of mucus. Beads of that mucus accumulate into stringers, which accumulate into clouds, which accumulate into the unending sheets now washing up on Turkey’s coast.
But pollution alone doesn’t explain the appearance of so much sea snot—or marine mucilage, to use the scientific term. This much slime buildup also requires specific weather conditions: hot and calm.
(Excerpt) Read more at theatlantic.com ...
Shakes the Magic 8 ball "Global Warming" comes up.
Ok then, the Grey Goo, is totally natural
The Earff has a runny nose?
The snot’s appearance is a sign of deeper sickness in the sea, caused by climate change and pollution.
or just flushing too much
But in the early 2000s linked to climate change a symptom of “ocean flu” a marine ecologist a sign of deeper sickness in the sea caused by climate change and pollution But in healthy waters amass to epic proportions the unending sheets of mucus But pollution alone doesn’t explain specific weather conditions: hot and calm
Hmmm… last one in is a rotten egg!🤗
Surely this can be blamed on Trump.
Snot funny.
Couldn't possibly be anything else.
Port of Istanbul Live Ship / Marine Traffic
Nawwwww.../s
... The snot’s appearance is a sign of deeper sickness in the sea, caused by climate change and pollution.
But you have to read to the end of the article to find out that Turkey can solve this by cleaning up their actual pollution, which Italy has already done.
... mucilage outbreaks have died down since Italy began cleaning up the wastewater that flows into it. The sea has returned to what looks like a healthier, less slimy normal.
Is it any wonder that climate alarmists are met with skepticism by anyone who is not woke enough to accept their outrageous claims at face value?
Trump’s fault.
/sarc
That was back in the days when the Italians still made the finest SUVs in the world.
“The snot’s appearance is a sign of deeper sickness in the sea, caused by climate change and pollution.”
And there you have it. Climate Change Bull$hit. It never ends. Everything is due to climate change caused by Uncle Sam. Ignore any other possibilities.
You might think it’s butter, but it’s not.
Does anybody read The Atlantic any more?
NO!
Good post.
It’s propaganda all the time.
Yes, it is an Oil Slick.
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