Carbon Dioxide Is 'Driving Fish Crazy'

ScienceDaily ^ | Jan. 20, 2012 | ScienceDaily

[dila813]

Rising human carbon dioxide emissions may be affecting the brains and central nervous system of sea fishes with serious consequences for their survival, an international scientific team has found.

Carbon dioxide concentrations predicted to occur in the ocean by the end of this century will interfere with fishes' ability to hear, smell, turn and evade predators, says Professor Philip Munday of the ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies and James Cook University.

[jazusamo]

The only things that CO2 drives crazy are the enviro-nazis.

[NakedRampage]

Oh my!

[Rocky]

LOL!!!!!!!

[alancarp]

Um, I thought CO2 was supposed to be messing up the upper atmosphere. So how does it get into the water??? Somebody carbonating the oceans?

[Rocky]

These people have no shame.

[KoRn]

I wonder if it makes them easier to catch. Does crazy fish taste better?

[Magic Fingers]

“This explains why they’re not hitting on my Rapala...”

Me too but I still insist on using it...my favorite lure of all time!

[Trillian]

They’re preparing for the ‘big gulp’ ;)

[musicman]

"Carbon Dioxide Is 'Driving Fish Crazy'"

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[martian622]

As I facepalm and chuckle, I can’t help but remember the quote, often repeated, “Oh my God, what a gullible race humans are.”

[sand88]

Seriously, has Science Daily always been a Science Fiction site?? Who funds this site? Who founded this site?

[JPG]

It looks like Gore is turning Japanese.

[Deaf Smith]

"concentrations predicted to occur in the ocean by the end of this century"

Predicted or Forecasted?

If you predict, you are a seer.

[FrankR]

Note to all fish: Don’t breathe it.

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

They keep coming up with one thing or another. Now that the ocean acidification controversy is being debunked, now they are saying, think of the fishies!

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[alpo]

Note to fish: Don’t worry. Algae will synthesize the carbon dioxide into more algae and oxygen.

[Gargantua]

Yeah, now that the "Global Warming" scam to rape taxpayers of $BILLION$ has been blown right out of the water, the sphincters need a new "carbon dioxide" straw man to threaten us with.

We should just shoot these azzholes whenever and wherevenr they crop up... like playing "Whack A Mole." You see one, you whack it.

The only good Commie is a dead Commie.

8^\

[Gargantua]

No kidding. Every green plant uses carbon dioxide during photosynthesis, releasing oxygen as a byproduct. A surfeit of CO2 would produce more lush forests, greener grass, all from more oxygen being infused into our atmosphere. Atmospheric CO2 affects the environment differently from aqueous solutions of it in the water table or oceans... which is merely to say that it wouldn't affect oceanic algae production as much as it would land-based vegetation.

Nothing but plusses all around.

8^)

[count-your-change]

Don’t believe it. I haddock a fish that spent years in a school and learned to play bass tunas and became a real rock starfish. His brother became a sturgeon.