They need to send in these guys.
Posted on 12/13/2008 3:16:15 PM PST by Phoenix11
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Huge swarms of stinging jellyfish and similar slimy animals are ruining beaches in Hawaii, the Gulf of Mexico, the Mediterranean, Australia and elsewhere
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In all seriousness, I got stung by one of those in Florida when I was a kid. Believe me, it was NOT fun.
Hmm.. a life form that has been around for 500 million years, and **we** are causing the problems??
I don’t think so.
They need to send in these guys.
Exactly. Who are we to go into the oceans and invade their realm...
I'm so sorry. I saw the title, and thought this was about Republican Senators.
Happened to my brother there too about 60 years ago. Ft. Lauderdale, I believe.
Give the MSM five seconds to link this to Global warming.
I’m getting scared.
I just watched a movie about plants causing humans to commit suicide.
I was in Panama City Beach.
They got me in Corpus Christi, TX, in the mid-70s. But hey, it’s their ecosystem, not ours. Hanging out at the beach has no selection advantage for humans.
This too shall pass, I’m sure. Jellyfish populations wax and wane, like any other pest.
That idiotic movie made me want to commit suicide.
The tourist spots are starting to see what commercial fisherman have been dealing with for years.
Jellyfish swarms have been increasingly depleting fish stocks off the coast of Japan and South Korea for some time now. There was also a freak case of jellyfish completely wiping out an Irish salmon farm last year. In that case, the swarm supposedly covered over 10 square miles and contained (literally) billions of jellyfish.
I have been stung several times close to Panama City. I was born and raised in Walton County. They really do hurt. I would say a little worse than a bee sting and that was just from slight stings.
They already have. This phenomenon has been going on most of the year. I've already seen a couple of stories that have linked it to the usual suspects...Global Warming, Pesticides, Fertilizer, Over-fishing, Submarines, George Bush, The War on Terror, etc. etc. etc.
I got hit by one of these things years ago at a beach in Belgium. Nasty. Stung like hell and itched for weeks.
Too late, one of those experts from CA , no surprise there, beat the MSM to it.
“There is clear, clean evidence that certain types of human-caused environmental stresses are triggering jellyfish swarms in some locations,William Hamner of the University of California Los Angeles says in the report.”
What is that thing for?
I got zapped on the foot as a kid on a Yokohama beach. Still have a small scar from it.
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