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There Is No ‘Great Pacific Garbage Patch’
Principia Scientifica ^ | 19 November 2021 | Patrick Moore, founder of Greenpeace!

Posted on 11/19/2021 10:58:26 AM PST by Fractal Trader

Of all the fabricated narratives about the environment, this one takes the cake. Yes, there is plastic in the oceans, mostly discarded fishing gear, but there is no island of plastic waste twice the size of Texas in the middle of the Pacific Ocean.

“A huge, swirling pile of trash in the Pacific Ocean is growing faster than expected and is now three times the size of France. According to a three-year study published in Scientific Reports Friday, the mass known as the Great Pacific Garbage Patch is about 1.6 million square kilometers in size – up to 16 times bigger than previous estimates. That makes it more than double the size of Texas.” CNN – March 23, 2018.

Because the average person cannot see the middle of the Pacific for themselves sensationalist activists, media, and politicians just make this up. In fact, plastic in the oceans is doing far more good than harm. Allow me to explain this bold assertion.

Plastic is made from several raw materials including oil, coal, natural gas, and wood. Plastics are polymers — long-chain compounds often composed of identical molecules. Think of a string of pearls. Nearly all plastics originate from living matter formed with solar energy by photosynthesis in plants on land and sea.

For example, rayon and cellophane are made from cellulose which is a polymer of glucose derived from wood and are therefore plastics.

Cotton is pure cellulose and is therefore also a plastic. Natural rubber and synthetic rubber are polymers and therefore plastics. Oil, coal, and natural gas are all products of solar energy that produced forests and sea life that turned into fossil fuels over the millennia.

Today they are made into polymers such as polyethylene, polypropylene, and polyvinyl chloride, otherwise known as PVC or vinyl.

To begin, despite the vast amount of propaganda, plastics are not toxic, they are inert. This is one of the reasons we package and wrap much of our food in plastic. It helps prevent spoilage from bacteria and mold, and protects the food from contamination by actual toxic substances.

If plastic were toxic, we would not wrap our food in it. Plastic does not miraculously become toxic in the ocean.

There is a big difference between pollution and litter. Pollution is either a toxic substance or one that is harmful to life in other ways. Plastic litter may appear unsightly, but like driftwood on a beach it is not toxic and does not harm life. Like driftwood in the ocean, plastic promotes life, as many marine species attach themselves to it, lay their eggs on it, or eat other species that are living on it.

Floating pieces of plastic are like small floating reefs that enhance rather that harm marine life. Many plastic objects are in the form of containers, so unlike most driftwood can be used as shelter from predators and habitat for breeding.

Perhaps the most unique benefit of floating bits of plastic in the sea is their use by seabirds as an alternative for the traditional items used as digestive aids in their gizzards. Birds have no teeth, so they swallow their food whole. All birds have two stomachs, one like ours and another that is a muscular organ, the gizzard, used to grind large hard pieces of food so they can be digested.

To aid in this process, birds on the land use pebbles fed to them by their parents from birth and then they gather pebbles for themselves all their lives.

There are no pebbles in the ocean, so seabirds use floating bits of pumice from undersea volcanoes, bits of hard wood, floating nuts from trees, and since plastic was introduced to the oceans about 60 years ago, suitable bits of floating plastic. Many studies by bird specialists have found that this has no negative effects on chicks or adults.

Yet Sir David Attenborough, The Smithsonian, and Greenpeace falsely allege that the parent birds are “feeding” plastic to their chicks “mistaking it for food” and that this is killing their chicks. They know what a bird gizzard is, but they never use that word. They know they are lying for the sake of notoriety and donations.

It would be beneficial to sea life if the environmental community and the international fishing industry would work to develop a program to prevent damaged fishnets from being thrown in the ocean. Discarded fishnets can catch fish and other sea life and are nicknamed “ghost nets.”

It should be possible to incentivize fishers to bring their damaged nets to the dock where they can be recycled or disposed of in a manner that does no harm.

See more here: bizpacreview.com

Bold emphasis added

Header image: Energy Live News

About the author: Dr. Patrick Moore, PhD in Ecology and co-founder of Greenpeace is the author of the recently published Fake Invisible Catastrophes and Threats of Doom. Dr. Moore is a Director of the CO2 Coalition based in Arlington, Virginia.


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And now for something completely different......
1 posted on 11/19/2021 10:58:26 AM PST by Fractal Trader
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To: KC_Lion

Ping.


2 posted on 11/19/2021 11:02:56 AM PST by Army Air Corps (Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
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To: Army Air Corps

Green concern /s


3 posted on 11/19/2021 11:04:35 AM PST by ptsal (Vote R.E.D. >>>Remove Every Democrat ***)
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To: Fractal Trader

My thoughts: The China butt-kissing left doesn’t want us to keep blaming China for trashing the Pacific. The only pollution that matters is what they allege is done by Americans.


4 posted on 11/19/2021 11:07:32 AM PST by Tell It Right (1st Thessalonians 5:21 -- Put everything to the test, hold fast to that which is true.)
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To: Fractal Trader

Reminds me of the thousands of polar bears floating away on broken pieces of glacial ice...


5 posted on 11/19/2021 11:14:16 AM PST by SuperLuminal (Where is another Sam Adams now that we desperately need him?)
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To: Fractal Trader

Armed with this knowledge, I will dump my plastic in my woods out back! WooHoo!


6 posted on 11/19/2021 11:14:44 AM PST by SgtHooper (If you remember the 60's, YOU WEREN'T THERE!)
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To: Fractal Trader

If it was there you could see it o Goooooooogle Maps satellite view...................


7 posted on 11/19/2021 11:15:09 AM PST by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: Army Air Corps

Butt, butt, butt...........


8 posted on 11/19/2021 11:19:54 AM PST by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this? 😕)
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To: Fractal Trader

If Green folks really wanted to save the planet, how about calling to ban disposable diapers. How many millions a day go into trash and are not biodegradable? When we raised our kiddos, the standard was washable cotton diapers. Nasty to clean but environmentally friendly.


9 posted on 11/19/2021 11:24:42 AM PST by antidemoncrat (somRead more at: https://economicti Astronomers see white dwarf 'switch on and off' for first time)
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To: Fractal Trader

The media says it so for millions it must be true.

The radical left justifies the lies because the narrative is right even if they have to manufacturer stories to support it.

What an upside down world we live in.....

Right now there are tens of millions of Americans who think a white supremacist who gunned down black men was just acquitted in Kenosha. Don’t believe me? Go read facebook comments on your local news pages about the acquittal.

The MSM is that powerful.


10 posted on 11/19/2021 11:31:38 AM PST by volunbeer (Find the truth and accept it - anything else is delusional)
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To: Fractal Trader

I just thought of a new concept of the global-warming movement: It is the environmental movement become a cancer.


11 posted on 11/19/2021 11:47:29 AM PST by dangus
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To: SgtHooper

No, no, no. Wait ‘til Earth Day and hold a backyard bonfire. Along with any car tires you have laying about.


12 posted on 11/19/2021 11:51:16 AM PST by bobbo666 (Baizuo)
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To: Fractal Trader

I’ve been saying this for YEARS! “Take this map, show me EXACTLY where this giant garbage patch is.” No one has taken the bait, as there’s no definitive “proof”, as it’s a made up narrative.


13 posted on 11/19/2021 11:56:22 AM PST by FrankRizzo890
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To: Fractal Trader

“ A huge, swirling pile of trash in the Pacific Ocean is growing faster than expected and is now three times the size of France. ”

Is it possible France broke off from the European continent and floated all the way to the mid Pacific? That would explain the garbage.


14 posted on 11/19/2021 12:12:21 PM PST by TonyM (Score Event)
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To: Fractal Trader

From the earth into the earth.


15 posted on 11/19/2021 12:22:04 PM PST by Harpotoo (Being a socialist is a lot easier than having to WORK like the rest of US:-))
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To: Fractal Trader

Wow, thanks for posting.
I have seen the stuff on TV & internet showing dead birds with these plastic parts in their skeletal remains. They said the birds DIED because they had ingested the plastic. Now, I can see they were clearly lying to get my MONEY.

The worst are the two surfer looking dudes who sell you a bracelet made from plastic they supposedly pulled out of the ocean.


16 posted on 11/19/2021 12:27:52 PM PST by woodbutcher1963
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To: antidemoncrat

“If Green folks really wanted to save the planet, how about calling to ban disposable diapers.”

They are.


17 posted on 11/19/2021 12:41:21 PM PST by TexasGator (UF)
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To: SuperLuminal

Before the Great Pacific Garbage Patch polar bears and penguins lived happily side by side. Now they must exist poles apart. Truly sad. That should be the next BBC documentary. I can hear David Attenborough saying that line now.


18 posted on 11/19/2021 12:42:29 PM PST by freefdny
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To: TexasGator

I hadn’t heard that ... my mistake. Thanks


19 posted on 11/19/2021 12:55:39 PM PST by antidemoncrat (somRead more at: https://economicti Astronomers see white dwarf 'switch on and off' for first time)
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To: Fractal Trader

Wow, this is going to take me down a rabbit hole but in a good way. Thank you for this!


20 posted on 11/19/2021 1:19:48 PM PST by rarestia (“A nation which can prefer disgrace to danger is prepared for a master, and deserves one.” -Hamilton)
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