Highest concentrations of chlorophyll and highest levels of fluorescence are red; lower values are green and blue.
The red tide is clearly visible as the oval-shaped red area to the west of the shore in the Nov. 21 image from the Sea-viewing Wide Field-of-view Sensor (SeaWiFS) flying on the OrbView-2 satellite. The high chlorophyll concentrations occur between Charlotte Harbor and the Florida Keys, which matches the location of the bloom.
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Marine Mammals Suffer Human Diseases (Deadly Cat Poop Alert!)
Liberals are Feline {feline being a kinder word }
It's a Vicious circle !
Ok. I guess I'm stupid. But if this is a spectro analysis of the water content, then how come there is no coloration in the clouds?
Since the clouds are also made of water (vapor), wouldn't there also be a spectrum respresentation of their content as well?
Seems like a decrease in their numbers would be welcomed.
I always thought that toxoplasmosis can also occur from eating uncooked or undercooked red meat, not only from cat feces.
The Law of Unforseen Consequences.
One of the things that makes me a conservative.
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Yep, the millions of cats swimming in Pacific coastal waters are decimating sea otters.
Okay, this one is on my top 10 list for the most stupid junk science reports of the year.
Will the peer reviews get published on the back of Fancy Feast cans or in Road Kill-Unlimited magazine?
The more I'm around dogs, the more I love my cats.
This just doesn't pass the sniff test. This pathogen is found worldwide. So how can the author substantiate that the only place Toxoplasma gondii reproduces is in housecats? Can the author substantiate that this is an introduced pathogen? If not, how is this situation any different than infecting bobcats or mountain lions? All of which begs the question:
How does a microscopic pathogen that cannot reproduce in the secondary host cause fatal damage when the count in seawater from landbased runoff from cat boxes is subject to such massive dilution? It's preposterous.
The biggest cause of otter losses are sharks. The second biggest in Monterey Bay are recently reintroduced bald eagles, which pick the pups right out of the water (you should see the screaming matches between the otter people and the bird people). Oh, but they don't mention that; it's your cat box. BTW, the current population of otters is within 10% of the highest it's been since 1900 (BTW, the authors of the article I cited question the validity of claims that the otter population is declining at all; I'd offer quotes but the file is a scanned image, not text, and I don't want to type it all; it's good research, but the writeup needs better graphical work).
A combination of toxic chemicals and herpes virus is killing off California sea lions.
However possible some of the claims in this article may be, there may well be more sea lions in California now than there were at the time of Cabrillo, simply because humans have killed their primary predators: Great White Sharks, Grizzly Bears, and Coastanoan Indians. Nobody knows what the pre-Columbian population of pinnipeds really was.
But, since some herpes-infected animals are without cancer, Gulland suspects that POPs, which can cause cancer on their own, are teaming up with the virus to increase cancer rates.
Pretty thin stuff. This looks to me like shilling for money under the MMPA.
The otters and sea lions never infect other animals with anything? They poop and share their parasites with swimmers and fish...