Jellyfish are taking over the oceans: ( Population surge due to rising acidity of world’s seas...)

EPOCA ^ | Monday, 6 December 2010 | EPOCA

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Jellyfish are taking over the oceans: Population surge as rising acidity of world’s seas kills predators

Britain’s beaches could soon be inundated with records numbers of jellyfish, marine experts warned today.

Scientists say the number of jellyfish are on the rise thanks to the increasing acidity of the world’s oceans.

The warning comes in a new report into ocean acidification – an often overlooked side effect of burning fossil fuel.

Studies have shown that higher levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere doesn’t just trigger climate change but can make the oceans more acid.

Since the start of the industrial revolution, acidity levels of the oceans have gone up 30 per cent, marine biologists say.

The new report, published by the UN Environment Programme during the Climate Change talks in Cancun, Mexico, warns that the acidification of oceans makes it harder for coral reefs and shellfish to form skeletons – threatening larger creatures that depend on them for food.

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David Derbyshire, Daily Mail, 3 December 2010. Full article.

[Hostage]

Yes this the new angle the EcoNazis have been holding in their attack plan.

They are abandoning warming and climate change and moving on to acidification of oceans and waterways and blah blah blah.

Acid Rain!!!!!!!!!!!

[qam1]

This is a perfect example of how this Global Warming nonsense actually hurts the environment.

There is a jellyfish population problem (mostly around the orient) and it is caused by man, but it's not due to global warming, it's instead due to overfishing. The Japanese and Chinese over fish the big predatory fish that feed on these jellyfish, thus you have a population explosion

Now instead of coming up with constructive management policies that might actually accomplish something, we instead waste time and money on this global warming silliness and the problem only gets worse which results in the environment they claim to care about ending up being damaged even more.

[mmercier]

The jellybelly population surges are interesting.

The usual suspects will hug and cry when their populations decline. They could give a $hit either way.

They make good fertilizer... Both.

The trick is for people who are morally opposed to working to find a mechanism to translate a function of a naturally regulating environmental systemic niche surge or decline into a cash stream.

Al Gore is the role model for this mindset. Seeing as they have destroyed vast parts of private employment, they are simply demonstrating intellect.

[November 2010]

Have these jackasses noticed that “fossil fuel” prices have gone through the roof and there is a lot of intelligent people that think we’ve hit peak oil? Economics in a free market is self-correcting. People will choose to work from home rather than drive and car pool because of higher prices for gas. Gas prices will go up with 3rd world and developing countries growing and increasing their demand. As people choose to reduce travel because of prices and car pool and buy smaller vehicles with higher gas prices there will be less emissions. Presto. Self-correcting.

Calcium in ocean. Presto. Self-correcting.

I want rational environmentalists. I believe a lot of REAL problems aren’t being addressed. They seem to have an aversion to addressing and working on real problems. Stopping medications from getting into our water supply. An onslaught of early puberty. Plastics in the oceans. Why all this waste of effort and money on the atmosphere?

[SamAdams76]

What is the nutritional value of jellyfish? This could solve another problem. Instead of food stamps, the government could issue jellyfish rolls to all the welfare people. I’m thinking something along the lines of a fruitcake - long in shelf life and high in nutrition.

[TheOldLady]

Oh shut up, EPOCA.

Mmm, mmm, mmm! More pickled jellyfish for everyone!

[JTHomes]

Good points. I’ve always been more concerned about the mercury from the coal plants making most fish toxic rather than C02. But we probably could fix that for fraction of what we are spending trying to sequester CO2.

[TheOldLady]

H ah haha ha ha ha! Incessant bulbs! Ha ha ha ha!

[November 2010]

Exactly! Mercury is a definite problem. It effects every pregnant woman and every person who eats a lot of fish from the top of the oceans food chain. Acidic seas are a “this may be a problem in 100 or 200 years” type of problem at “best.”

[Hostage]

“Why all this waste of effort and money on the atmosphere?”

It’s not about environmentalism, it’s about a means to tax and control, i.e. power. Environmentalism is just a means to an end.

It started with the confluence of the conflict between Maggie Thatcher and the Coal Miner’s union, and the collapse of the Soviet Union.

Thatcher needed to break the Coal union so her people came up with an environmental hatchet to split the coal union with. This is what started the IPCC, the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Thatcher probably never dreamt of the consequences of having IPCC born from her spat with the coal union.

Next the Soviet Union collapsed and tens of thousands of Soviet supported leftist journalists across the globe suddenly found themselves looking for a job. They transitioned to many western news outlets and took on the cause of IPCC Global Warming because it would lead to control of industry and local governments.

There was also a parallel effort to control the seas that would lead to control of the atmosphere and thereby ultimately control the land. The Law of the Sea Treaty (LOST) was founded by a Matese ambassador to the USSR. The LOST movement was taken up by a longtime Marxist sympathizer Elisabeth Mann Borgese.

See below what she had to say and you will get the idea that ‘Global Warming’, ‘Climate Change’, ‘Sustainable Development’ are all part of the same playbook from progressive/socialist/communist econazis, all having save-the-world mantras but with political power as the goal. Remember the USSR was a miserable welfare state for hundreds of millions of people with a few million ‘elite’ party members residing behind gates and living oppulent lifestyles. That’s what the Left wants, an ‘elite’ that dictates to the little people what is best for them.

Here’s Elisabeth Mann Borgese in an interview:
http://www.wnd.com/?pageId=43783

One of the main authors of LOST not only admired Karl Marx but was an ardent advocate of the Marxist-oriented New International Economic Order. Elisabeth Mann Borgese, a socialist who ran the World Federalists of Canada, played a critical role in crafting and promoting LOST, as WND reported in 2005.

Borgese was hailed by her U.N. supporters as the “Mother of the Oceans” or “First Lady of the Oceans.” She died in 2002.

The youngest daughter of the German novelist Thomas Mann, Borgese openly favored world government, wrote for the left-wing The Nation magazine and was a member of a “Committee to Frame a World Constitution.” She served as director of the International Center for Ocean Development and chairman of the International Oceans Institute at Dalhousie University in Canada.

The U.N. Environment Program, UNEP, has said Borgese recognized the oceans as “a possible test-bed for ideas she had developed concerning a common global constitution.”

Borgese received UNEP’s “Environment Prize” in 1987 and was credited with organizing the conferences that “served to lay the foundation” for the United Nations Convention of the Law of the Sea, according to Dalhousie University, which houses her archives.

In a 1995 speech, pro-U.N. Democratic Sen. Claiborne Pell said Borgese’s ideas were “embodied in the negotiated texts of the Law of the Sea Convention.”

Her ideas included recognizing the oceans as the “common heritage of mankind” and creating an International Seabed Authority to charge U.S. and foreign companies for the right to mine the ocean floor.

In a January 1999 speech, Borgese declared, “The world ocean has been, and is, so to speak, our great laboratory for the making of a new world order.”

In an article titled, “The New International Economic Order and the Law of the Sea,” she argued that the pact could “reinforce” the goals of the NIEO by giving Third World countries a role in managing access to the oceans.

In a 1997 interview, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation broadcaster Philip Coulter asked Borgese about the collapse of Soviet-style communism and the triumph of the “elites.”

Borgese replied “there is a strong counter-trend. It’s not called socialism, but it’s called sustainable development, which calls ... for the eradication of poverty. There is that trend and that is the trend that I am working on.”

The concept of “sustainable development,” considered a euphemism for socialism or communism, has been embraced in various pronouncements by the U.N. and even the U.S. government.

In her book, “The Oceanic Circle: Governing the Seas as a Global Resource,” she approvingly cites Karl Marx, the father of communism, as someone with “amazing foresight” about the problems faced by urban and rural societies. The book is available from the liberal Brookings Institution in Washington, D.C.

In an article co-authored with an international lawyer, Borgese noted how LOST stipulates that the oceans “shall be reserved for peaceful purposes” and that “any threat or use of force, inconsistent with the United Nations Charter, is prohibited.”

She argued LOST prohibits the ability of nuclear submarines from the U.S. and other nations to rove freely through the world’s oceans.

[November 2010]

So much work to do, so few aware.

[November 2010]

I think that enough people truly care about the environment that they would be angry at the environmental problems that are allowed to fester or even end in extinction or illness for people while fortunes are wasted on bad science for purposes of political control.

[steelyourfaith]

Asante Ernest_at_the_Beach !

 

Beam me to Planet Gore !

[Dr. Bogus Pachysandra]

All this talk of jellyfish made me hungry! Opened and ate a whole bag of spicy jellyfish this afternoon! Delicious, but I’ll pay for it tomorrow!

[steelyourfaith]

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Amen to that statement.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

i have never tried it....

Spicy jellyfish salad

YAM MAENG KAPHRUNINGREDIENTS
2 cups jellyfish, cleaned and cut bite-sized
1/2 thinly sliced onion
2 thinly sliced shallots
8-10 crushed hot chillies
1 tsp. thinly sliced red spur chillies
1 1/2 tbsp. fish sauce
2 tbsp. lime juice

PREPARATION
1. Immerse the jellyfish in boiling water then remove and immediately plunge into cold water for a few moment. After removing from the water, drain. Thia will give the jellyfish the right munchy texture.
2. Toss the jellyfish with the onion, shallot, and chillies, seasoning to taste with fish sauce and lime juice. Put onto a plate on which lettuce has been arranged and decorate with slices of red spur chilli

Thanks: international thai cooking : Spicy Thai Cuisine
Label : Spicy , jellyfish , salad , onion , International cooking , thaicooking

[Dr. Bogus Pachysandra]

EatB,
It’s wonderful stuff! Go to a real Chinese restaurant and try it!
Best,
Bogie

[FreedomPoster]

LOL! Sums up this report perfectly.

[SunkenCiv]

Addressing this problem is going to take a lot of bread.