Posted on 10/09/2018 5:51:47 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
Human beings might have to cope with an increasing amount of venomous bites, stings, and other brush ups with poison due to climate change. Thats according to a new study, coming at the same time that the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released a report warning that negative impacts from a warming world are coming faster than expected.
According to a massive new analysis of poisonous or venomous aquatic animals, dangerous species might become increasingly common in new ranges. Species whose ranges might shift polewards due to warmer water include lionfish, sea snakes, crown-of-thorns starfish and a number of different types of venomous jellies.
According to the researchers, the problem is only going to be exacerbated in the future as more and more people move into coastal areas. They note that by the end of the century, 50 percent of the worlds population will be living within 60 miles of a coastline.
There are more and more people going in the water, Purcell agrees.
We are a part of our environment and our ecosystem. Changes affect us and we change whats happening in our ecosystem, Neylan says.
(Excerpt) Read more at nationalgeographic.com ...
***50 percent of the worlds population will be living within 60 miles of a coastline. ***
Twenty five years ago I read that 50% of the USA population lives within 50 miles of the oceans. So what is the problem?
Lung fish, black fish, alligator, Ice fish
Armour head, hammer head, anaconda, flat head
Manta ray, stingray, fang-tooth moray
Goblin shark, grass carp, round-river-bat ray
Noodle fish, hag fish, man o' war, lady fish
Black eel, baby seal, sprat, koi, electric eel
Lamprey, pejerey, yellow-edged moray
Salmon shark, sleeper shark, featherback and eagle ray
***...Pouring Soot Over the Arctic in the 1970s***
Believe it or not I remember that suggestion way back then. Even earlier some si-fi writer suggested the USSR might cause floods in the USA by spraying ground coal on ice fields to increase melting.
So climate scientists are doing double duty. We should all pay double in climate taxes.
Remeber the dire warnings of OZONE DEPLETION? How cattle farts were deteriorating the fragile ozone layer that protects us from excessive UV radiation. Also, Ted Danson, another supreme celebrity intellectual told us FL, NYC and the coasts would be underwater within 10 years if we don’t DO SOMETHING about the environment. That was in 1988. He should’ve tried to hold on to his gig as bartender and Diana’s on again/off again boyfriend on Cheers at least that was somewhat funny.
Headline says they are on the rise. The article is full of might.
And here I thought that people moving animals to where they are not indigenous, with no natural predators, was what causes this problem.
I guess I have to change religion.
There’s a reason Greenland got it’s name. During a relatively warm era, ancient Vikings were actually able to grow crops on a large portion of that Arctic
There are more and more people going in the water,
Not good English, as proper would be “going into the water”. Otherwise, when people have gone into the water, they go in the water because no one wants to get out of the water they have gone into and walk across the beach to go into the restrooms to go.
Wait until it unleashes the Kraken!
ALl we need is for the Japanese to teach us how to prepare and eat them:-)
If they were right, we’d have been extinct 12 years ago...
“The big pattern is that there isn’t necessarily a pattern.”
Science.
Heh... Thanks Arthur Wildfire! March.
Sign me up for the beach tour.
*I traded my boat for a 34 foot already... Thank you President Trump ...
I’ve never regretting cancelling my subscription over 10 years ago. Used to be a semi-rational magazine. Now it’s pure propaganda.
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