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.
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Well, not a dactyl, the left was R etuning to acid rain after the Global warming emails were eased. Global Warming was really going away, until Obama revived it.
Peabody Energy sued the federal EPA over the hockey stick theory and claims that coal was such a big contributor to global warming. They demanded that the Feds show new proveable science to justify the EPA actions.
Peabody Energy won the case, but Obama setlled with Peabody in a crony partnership kind of settlement, which agreed that the government would not have to show their science and would henceforth pursue a two sided duplicitous coal policy, Eastern bituminous coal, bad - western sub-bituminous coal good, as long as it is shipped to Asia via a Warren Buffet’s trains through terminals operated by the company that employs Patty Murray’s husband, SSA, an ILWU company.
I forgot to point out that Peabody is on the list of targets for St Louis riots.
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