Weekend Viewing Reminder on C-Span 2:
Posted on 05/03/2008 7:29:42 PM PDT by navyguy
Three decades have passed since the movie Jaws sent terrified bathers scrambling out of the ocean. But as any beach lifeguard knows, there's still nothing like a gory shark attack to stoke public hysteria and paranoia.
Two deaths in the waters off California and Mexico last week and a spate of shark-inflicted injuries to surfers off Florida's Atlantic coast have left beachgoers seeking an explanation for a sudden surge in the number of strikes.
In the first four months of this year, there were four fatal shark attacks worldwide, compared with one in the whole of 2007, according to the International Shark Attack File at the Florida Museum of Natural History in Gainesville. 'The one thing that's affecting shark attacks more than anything else is human activity,' said Dr George Burgess of Florida University, a shark expert who maintains the database. 'As the population continues to rise, so does the number of people in the water for recreation. And as long as we have an increase in human hours in the water, we will have an increase in shark bites.'
Some experts suggest that an abundance of seals has attracted high numbers of sharks, while others believe that overfishing has hit their food chain. 'I'm not saying it doesn't happen, but it's a convenient excuse,' Burgess said. Another contributory factor to the location of shark attacks could be global warming and rising sea temperatures. 'You'll find that some species will begin to appear in places they didn't in the past with some regularity,' he said.
(Excerpt) Read more at guardian.co.uk ...
Is that real?!
I guess that just answered my question on the other thread.
If threatening me that my lawn is going to die because of global warming doesn’t work, you can always scare me with the threat of shark attack.
Something I have to fear in CNY. How can I sleep at night with this hanging over my head?
Whooooa, that fish is bigger than the darned boat!
What’d the police chief say in ‘Jaws’?
“We gotta get a bigger boat.”
That’s too logical for a Dembulb to figure out.
I'll take the increase of seals as the reason.
The lack of shark attacks, if it was occurring, would be blamed on global warming.
Some people will believe anything!
I don't think so. I wasn't there when the picture was taken.
It gives a new perspective of the phrase, "Let's put things into perspective."
In the case of whites, the idea is you go out in a 25" boat with a length of nylon rope, a big hook, a rubber seal and one of those lever-action 45/70 Marlin rifles, and you aim for the gills since sharks don't really have enough of a brain to shoot at. You'd only have to kill three or four of them, the rest would all kill eachother.
Truedat...
But leaving the messy seals to piss and poop all over Monterrey and SF Bay ain’t helping those sharks to abate themselves..
/channeling Revrund Wrong
Now Wendy..
Please stop being intelligent and Rational.
That’s not FAIR!
I’m taking my shark bitten surfer and going home! (aka. 75, 76 and 82)
And rising sea levels means that they don't have as far to drive to get to the shore!
One problem.........
The oceans have not been warming.
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=88520025
Some 3,000 scientific robots that are plying the ocean have sent home a puzzling message. These diving instruments suggest that the oceans have not warmed up at all over the past four or five years.
LANDSHARK!
OMG...I thought this was scrapple face!
That is the REAL headline!
Interesting theory, science guy. Unfortunately those bozos over at NASA say this...
La Nina and Pacific Decadal Oscillation Cool the Pacific (global warming)
And then there's these guys...
The Antarctic Deep Sea Gets Colder [Alfred Wegener Institute]
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