Posted on 11/19/2014 12:29:19 PM PST by Bettyprob
Swimmers who dive into any number of Canadian lakes might not emerge clean and refreshed, but dripping with globs that resemble slimy fish eggs. A legacy of industrial pollution has caused great changes in the country's water chemistry, creating a boom in tiny organisms that transform lakes into "jelly."
That's the gooey news from scientists behind a new paper in Proceedings of the Royal Society B, who say that populations of this particular organism have doubled since the 1980s in many of Ontario's lakes. The reasons involve a complex dance of species, but here's the short version: Acid rain caused by smelting operations and other human activity removed calcium from the soil in drainage areas. That depleted the calcium levels in many lakes, which has hurt a kind of plankton (Daphnia) that needs the element to build armor. Enter a competing plankton, Holopedium, which requires far less calcium to bulk up and is coated with a gel that's excellent at repelling predators.
(Excerpt) Read more at msn.com ...
Enter a competing plankton, Holopedium.
Source of Hopium FOUND!
Wow, acid rain has returned from the 70s.
There’s gott’a be SOMEthing y’can do with it ....
wasn’t the acid rain scare just another environmental hoax? After 5 decades of enviro-scare tactics, I’m having trouble keeping track
“It’s the colors, man.”
Well, if it’s jelly, might as well try it on toast...
Schools could get creative, under the Mooch’s guidelines, and add some peanut butter : PB and Holopedium Jelly Sandwich...
[cue Homer, “Mmmmmmm.... Holopedium Jelly...”, drool]
Who’ll stop the rain?
Uh, glow-bull jellofication?
According to Wiki, Holopedium has been there since before its discovery the 1930’s.................
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chamcook_Lake
Can we find a way to blame this on Cosby too? Jelly, Jello, Pudding...........Tomatoe, Tomato, what the hell is the difference.
What is next? Rain forest depletion?
I liken this to el Nina and el Nino.
We discover them, and then think they never existed before, never affected weather before, and are examples of man destroying his home planet.
People that buy into this stuff should be locked away fro their own protection.
Cripp, anything that was successfully killed off and debunked 30 years ago and suddenly returns to life has to be a zombie..........This ain't acid rain, this is ZOMBIE rain!
These assholes just never give up..........
Canada being historically a leftist entity, I would assume that all the acid, that got in the rain, was from all the bile that leftists tend to generate...
In the mid '90s, I bought a new Olds Cierra and the paint was all pitted. I took it back several times and they claimed they couldn't do anything because it was caused from the acid rain up north where the car originated. We had some words and they finally repainted the whole car - that was the first GM car I had bought in about 15 years and probably the last one ever.
Yep,
Must mean smoke stacks are dirtier today than they were in the 1990’s...which makes no sense.
Beat me to it.
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