Arctic discovery: Massive algae bloom raises crucial (Global Warming) questions

Los Angeles Times ^ | June 8, 2012 | Amy Hubbard

[Zakeet]

You right wing nuts need to realize that this is undoubtedly bad news ... because even though plankton reduces carbon dioxide ... this newly discovered batch is emitting its own toxic gasses ... and increasing global warming ... and are killing fish ... and enlarging the hole in the ozone layer ... and destroying rain forests ... and causing a hydrocarbon spill in the fragile arctic environment ... and leading to mass extinctions ... and it's all because you selfish pigs continue to drive your SUV's and use power lawn mowers ... which is why we need much more government funded research ... and a carbon tax!

[momincombatboots]

As for myself and some others I speak to, science has lost it’s credibility. The cataclysmic rise of the oceans did not happen, the significant loss of Himalayan ice didn’t happen. Now we are not surprised that we are not all doing to die from the loss of phytoplankton. Global warming extremism and a few pharmaceutical disappointments have caused a bit of distrust.

[pieceofthepuzzle]

” ... because even though plankton reduces carbon dioxide ... this newly discovered batch is emitting its own toxic gasses ... and increasing global warming ... and are killing fish ... and enlarging the hole in the ozone layer ... and destroying rain forests ...”

You could be Gore’s press secretary!

[samtheman]

You right wing nuts need to realize that this is undoubtedly bad news ... because even though plankton reduces carbon dioxide ... this newly discovered batch is emitting its own toxic gasses ... and increasing global warming ... and are killing fish ... and enlarging the hole in the ozone layer ... and destroying rain forests ... and causing a hydrocarbon spill in the fragile arctic environment ... and leading to mass extinctions ... and it's all because you selfish pigs continue to drive your SUV's and use power lawn mowers ... which is why we need much more government funded research ... and a carbon tax!

Excellent!

[Sir Napsalot]

Obama gave a directive to NASA head, its mission is ‘moooooslem outreach’.

Keep JPL as academic affiliate, shrink 90% of rest of NASA, the work they do nowadays doesn’t amount to a lot of beans.

[Bigh4u2]

"A Canadian team said in the journal Nature, as The Times reported in July 2010, that the world's phytoplankton had been disappearing at a rate of about 1% a year for the previous 100 years.

"A global decline of this magnitude? It's quite shocking," Daniel Boyce,"

Ok Danny boy.. help me out here.

1. Either you suck at math or the phytoplankton is now gone.

Or...

2. That the percentage of biomass is reduced by 1% per year over the total 100 years based on some made up arbitrary number of what you think the total mass was to begin with.

Or...

3. You're just talking out your butt.

I'm picking number 3.

[My Favorite Headache]

I was watching the Michael Jackson documentary “This Is It” the other night and I had seen it before but just caught it the other night when he was standing on the stage in a pep talk and prayer with his dancers and crew telling them “We have 1 year to turn it all around and save the world or there is no going back and we will be finished”

Hey Mike...Mike? Mike? Still here? No?

We are.

[WilliamofCarmichael]

NASA has revealed its discovery of a massive collection of American SUVs under a slowly diminishing cloud cover -- a finding that made scientists' eyes pop. But does this never-before-so-many-in-such-a-small-area phenomenon seal the fate of mankind.. er, personkind?

Yes! warned aged 1960s spoiled brat Al Gore

[Clara Lou]

Here’s another, I think more informative, link to a ScienceNow article printed in the Anchorage Daily News: http://www.adn.com/2012/06/08/2496664/scientific-expedition-discovers.html

[Sir Napsalot]

Greenland, man, GREENLAND. Its glacier had been receding.

/Uh hummmmm. Switch off my imitation of GW alarmist mode.

Please don’t lump science and scientists in general with ambitious people with political agenda (a small fraction of science community).

Those studies weren’t ‘science’ and the methodology/application not ‘scientific’.

[prisoner6]

Well he is talking our of his but however ...oh I just got up and don't want to do the math. It's kind of like reverse interest. Say you start with 1 dollar and increase at 1 percent per year.

At the end of the first year you have 1 dollar AND 1 cent. The next years interest is earned on the 1 dollar and 1 cent so you make a bit MORE.

Now do the same thing but in reverse.

My head hurts.

[bossmechanic]

Far be it from me to defend this drivel but, it could be the writer means each year the count is down 1% from the year before - a geometric progression that does not end in zero - kinda like walking half way to the wall with each step.

But a projection like this requires that you accurately measure the phytowhaterver count every year. To my knowledge, there was not/is not a yearly plankton census commencing in 1912.

These people are so unhappy when the sky isn’t falling.
What a dismal life.

[Izzy Dunne]

science has lost it’s credibility. The cataclysmic rise of the oceans did not happen, the significant loss of Himalayan ice didn’t happen.

See!

Electing O'bama was the right thing to do!

He TOLD us it would stop if he was elected!

[DManA]

Never seen before is NOT the same as never happened before.

[DManA]

You’re right. Science IS going through a crisis of credibility. I’m sure you’ve read about the staggering numbers of peer reviewed journal articles filled with made up data, hidden relevant data, and articles filled with just plain junk.

Science as seen through the dirty lenses of Big Media is even more trashy.

[CPOSharky]

OMG, OMG, Mother Nature did something we didn’t predict and don’t understand but it is bad and we are all going to die if we don’t get a huge grant to study it. /algore rant

[EQAndyBuzz]

George Walker Bush
Global Warming Believers

Coincidence? I think not.

[DaxtonBrown]

Did anyone notice that losing 1% of photoplankton a year for a hundred years adds up to 100%?

[csmusaret]

1% a year for a hundred years equals damn near gone.

[huldah1776]

The best part of the article is the picture of al with a tree growing out of his head. The photographer knew exactly what he/she was doing.