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Oceans are at the 'edge' of losing all oxygen: Event could lead to mass sea life extinction
Daily Mail Online ^ | May 12, 2017 | Shivali Best

Posted on 05/12/2017 9:37:02 PM PDT by Teotwawki

The world's oceans close to being starved of oxygen - and even that could lead to mass sea life extinction which could last a million years. University of Exeter scientists fear the modern ocean is 'on the edge of anoxia' - when the oceans are depleted of oxygen. [snip]

Lead researcher PhD student Sarah Baker said it was now 'critical' for modern humans to limit carbon emissions to prevent this.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


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To: Teotwawki

These people are idiots. They will probably say space aliens may come kill us all to stop us from destroying life on earth.


61 posted on 05/12/2017 10:59:10 PM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: Teotwawki

WOW. The stupid burns...


62 posted on 05/12/2017 11:00:49 PM PDT by piytar (http://www.truthrevolt.org/videos/bill-whittle-number-one-bullet)
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To: Governor Dinwiddie
this is NOT mental illness...

it IS demon possession.
63 posted on 05/12/2017 11:02:56 PM PDT by MIA_eccl1212 (.)
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To: Teotwawki

“Scientists say...” means the article is likely propaganda. Honest journalism would qualify which scientists and if others said something different...instead it seems the intent is for the reader to non critically infer that science itself has spoken.


64 posted on 05/12/2017 11:04:27 PM PDT by AndyTheBear
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To: Teotwawki

LOL!


65 posted on 05/12/2017 11:10:17 PM PDT by Vendome (I've Gotta Be Me - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wH-pk2vZG2M)
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To: alexander_busek
.but NOT independent of convection, right? And temperature differences would promote convection, right?
temperature difference triggers convection only if high temperature is at the bottom. In oceans, high temperature is at the top because the heat source (sun) is at the top, so there is no convection in oceans. It's like trying to boil a pot of water from the top, there will be no convection cell. There is though localized mixing from wind, conveyor belts currents...
66 posted on 05/12/2017 11:12:43 PM PDT by miniTAX (ay)
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To: Teotwawki

What’s next?

“Climate Change Will Soon Unbalance The Entire Solar System!”

“Climate Change Unraveling DNA Across All Species!

“Climate Change Slowing The Rotation Of Earth!”

“Climate Change Found To Be The True Cause Of Clinton’s Loss To Trump!”

Geez....you sometimes wonder how much further they can go with this idiocy.


67 posted on 05/12/2017 11:13:10 PM PDT by Windflier (Pitchforks and torches ripen on the vine. Left too long, they become black rifles.)
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To: Teotwawki
Oh, piff.

Hysterical drama queens.

68 posted on 05/12/2017 11:24:53 PM PDT by gogeo (When your life is based on a false premise...you are indeed insane.)
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To: Maceman

I have no clue if its a molecule or what, I just meant that water is H2O. So water has to have a certain amount of oxygen, yet the article is supposedly about the ocean running out of oxygen. Hence my question - is water no longer made up of H2O?


69 posted on 05/12/2017 11:27:04 PM PDT by b4me (If Jesus came to set us free, why are so many professed Believers still in chains?)
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To: dp0622

They are talking of disolved O2 molecules in the water and not the oxygen atoms in the H2O itself.


70 posted on 05/12/2017 11:30:02 PM PDT by AndyTheBear
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To: Teotwawki

[Teotwawki]

Well, that would be The End Of The World As We Know It.


71 posted on 05/12/2017 11:35:27 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Hebrews 13:2 Do not forget to entertain strangers, for ... some have unwittingly entertained angels)
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To: DeFault User

Or Rumsfeld.


72 posted on 05/12/2017 11:38:16 PM PDT by firebrand
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To: alexander_busek
My wife's nagging me while I drive a car will not influence my blood alcohol level - they are two independent factors.

There may be a causational factor involved, if your wife's nagging drove you to drink, your blood alcohol would certainly go up, and thus affect your driving.

YVW :-)

73 posted on 05/12/2017 11:41:21 PM PDT by going hot (Happiness is a Momma Deuce)
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To: Teotwawki

I bet these experts have never been to the ocean.


74 posted on 05/12/2017 11:42:22 PM PDT by minnesota_bound
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To: Maceman
Two oxygen atoms make up an oxygen molecule. Monoatomic oxygen is very reactive and very corrosive.

Oh, by the way, I majored in chemistry in college.

75 posted on 05/12/2017 11:49:24 PM PDT by reg45 (Barack 0bama: Gone but not forgiven.)
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To: miniTAX
temperature difference triggers convection only if high temperature is at the bottom. In oceans, high temperature is at the top because the heat source (sun) is at the top, so there is no convection in oceans. It's like trying to boil a pot of water from the top, there will be no convection cell. There is though localized mixing from wind, conveyor belts currents...

I knew someone was gonna come with that sort of argument - that's why I explicitly pointed out that water reaches its max. density at +4.5 °C.

Thus, under certain circumstances, insolation (incident solar radiation) would result in massive convection.

E.g.: A body of saltwater (3.5% salt concentration - like the ocean) with a more-or-less uniform temperature of, say, +1 °C (maybe +3 °C at the bottom, maybe -0.5 °C at the top)... Sun comes out from behind the clouds and heats the surface. Surface temperature rises to +4.5 °C. Surface water is now denser than the rest of the body of water. Surface water therefore sinks. Voilà: Convection!

Regards,

76 posted on 05/13/2017 12:08:40 AM PDT by alexander_busek (Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.)
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To: b4me
I have no clue if its a molecule or what, I just meant that water is H2O. So water has to have a certain amount of oxygen, yet the article is supposedly about the ocean running out of oxygen. Hence my question - is water no longer made up of H2O?

The article is talking about oxygen available to living organisms. The oxygen "locked" into H2O is not accessible (for "breathing" purposes) to fish, dolphins, or humans. Normally, water contains a certain quantity of dissolved oxygen (like saltwater contains dissolved salt).

Pure H2O, containing no dissolved oxygen, is called anoxic. The bottom of, e.g., the Black Sea is an anoxic zone - meaning that only primitive organisms like anaerobic bacteria can thrive there.

Regards,

77 posted on 05/13/2017 12:14:08 AM PDT by alexander_busek (Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.)
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To: BookmanTheJanitor

Quote from Lead Researcher -

“I know the Oceans are almost out of water... Barbie told me so!”


78 posted on 05/13/2017 12:28:04 AM PDT by BwanaNdege ("The church ... is not the master or the servant of the state, but the conscience" - Luther)
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To: DesertRhino
No oxygen, in a giant worldwide sea of .... H2O. (emphasis on the “o”)

See above postings, catchword: Dissolved oxygen (i.e., the only kind that fish can breathe).

Regards,

79 posted on 05/13/2017 12:29:12 AM PDT by alexander_busek (Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.)
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To: Teotwawki

How the Fluck does water which is HYDROGEN AND OXYGEN, lose its oxygen? Tell me. Please. That’s not possible. It would cease being water.


80 posted on 05/13/2017 12:43:32 AM PDT by FreedomStar3028 (Somebody has to step forward and do what is right because it is right, otherwise no one will follow.)
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