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Jellyfish outbreaks a sign of nature out of sync
terradaily.com ^ | June 19, 2008 | Staff Writers

Posted on 06/19/2008 11:31:54 AM PDT by PROCON

The dramatic proliferation of jellyfish in oceans around the world, driven by overfishing and climate change, is a sure sign of ecosystems out of kilter, warn experts. "Jellyfish are an excellent bellwether for the environment," explains Jacqueline Goy, of the Oceanographic Institute of Paris. "The more jellyfish, the stronger the signal that something has changed."

Brainless creatures composed almost entirely of water, the primitive animals have quietly filled a vacuum created by the voracious human appetite for fish.

Dislodging them will be difficult, marine biologists say.

"Jellyfish have come to occupy the place of many other species," notes Ricardo Aguilar, research director for Oceana, a international conservation organisation

(Excerpt) Read more at terradaily.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: climatechange; coastalenvironment; environment; globalwarming; marinebiology
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1 posted on 06/19/2008 11:31:54 AM PDT by PROCON
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Good grief. As long as I can remember we have had jelly fish outbreaks at the beach.


2 posted on 06/19/2008 11:33:29 AM PDT by CindyDawg
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To: PROCON

3 posted on 06/19/2008 11:35:00 AM PDT by Tijeras_Slim (Play that Funky Music Typical White Boy!)
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To: PROCON
"Brainless creatures composed almost entirely of water...
4 posted on 06/19/2008 11:35:04 AM PDT by BenLurkin
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To: PROCON

This is CLEARLY a result of Global Warming!! Without any doubt.


5 posted on 06/19/2008 11:35:08 AM PDT by EagleUSA
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To: xcamel; steelyourfaith; Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Ping!


6 posted on 06/19/2008 11:35:09 AM PDT by PROCON (No more politics, I promise!)
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To: PROCON

Oh please. Will someone just give some of these so’called ocean experts a set of recent ocean temperature records? Guess numbers don’t matter. “Feelings” matter.


7 posted on 06/19/2008 11:35:37 AM PDT by Da Coyote
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To: PROCON; La Enchiladita; conservativepoet; sageb1; 4butnomorethan30characters; mware; ...
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AND JELLYFISH?!!


8 posted on 06/19/2008 11:35:41 AM PDT by CougarGA7 (Wisdom comes with age, but sometimes age comes alone.)
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To: PROCON

Let me guess: It’s Global Warming.


9 posted on 06/19/2008 11:36:14 AM PDT by Mad_Tom_Rackham ("The land of the Free...Because of the Brave")
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To: PROCON

I have also noticed that the sand at the beach is very hot and burns my feet.

I also got a sunburn last time I was at the beach.

Something fishy is definitely going on with the climate.


10 posted on 06/19/2008 11:36:26 AM PDT by Notwithstanding ("You are either with America in our time of need or you are not" - Hillary from Senate well 9/12/01)
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To: PROCON

Or it could be just another good year for jellyfish.

I’m sure all the estrogen polluting the water had nothing to do with it.


11 posted on 06/19/2008 11:37:12 AM PDT by <1/1,000,000th%
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To: PROCON
Brainless creatures composed almost entirely of water,

I thought they were talking about Dems.

12 posted on 06/19/2008 11:37:35 AM PDT by beltfed308 (Heller: The defining moment of our Republic)
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To: BenLurkin
"Brainless creatures composed almost entirely of water...

13 posted on 06/19/2008 11:38:54 AM PDT by Bratch ("The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing." --- Edmund Burke)
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To: PROCON

I was in Florida last week. There were no Jellyfish.


14 posted on 06/19/2008 11:39:10 AM PDT by DannyTN
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To: PROCON

It’s all our fault!

We are next!

The end is near, thanks to Bush and his smirking cronies!

Doesn’t anybody care?

The children will have no where to swim. And no trees. And no air.

It has to be true, otherwise Leonardo DiCaprio would never have said so.


15 posted on 06/19/2008 11:39:18 AM PDT by Garden Island (US out of Iraq!.....And into Iran, Syria, and Pakistan!)
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To: Mad_Tom_Rackham
Let me guess: It’s Global Warming.

Ding..ding..ding..you da winner!

16 posted on 06/19/2008 11:39:23 AM PDT by PROCON (No more politics, I promise!)
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To: PROCON

I knew it, I knew it but nobody would agree with me. “Brainless creatures composed almost entirely of water, the primitive animals have quietly filled a vacuum” Perfect explanation of Congress.


17 posted on 06/19/2008 11:39:40 AM PDT by RC2
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To: PROCON

At one time I might have taken this seriously. Overfishing is a problem, and with modern technology and huge nets some stocks of fish and some fishing grounds have been seriously depleted.

But jellyfish? Give me a break. There have been plagues of various kinds of species—locusts, cicadas, jellyfish, you name it—since time began. That’s nature’s way.

Poisonous moonbat ideology has spread so far through the various scientific communities, urged on by biased grants from leftist academies, leftist foundations, and leftist government agencies, to the point where you can hardly trust any scientist any more.


18 posted on 06/19/2008 11:40:33 AM PDT by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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To: PROCON

Nature is never in sync.


19 posted on 06/19/2008 11:41:23 AM PDT by untenured
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To: PROCON

I thought Hillary losing the democratic nomination was “a sure sign of ecosystems out of kilter”.


20 posted on 06/19/2008 11:47:00 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer (The democRATS are near the tipping point.)
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