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POPSDeep-Sea Volcano Seen By Scientists For First Time The eruption was a spectacular sight: Bright-red lava bubbles shot out of the volcano, releasing a smoke-like cloud of sulfur. The lava froze almost instantly as it hit the cold sea water, causing black rock to sink to the sea floor. The submersible hovered near the blasts, its robotic arm reaching into the lava to collect samples. Earth and ocean scientists said the eruption allowed them to see for the first time the creation of a material called boninite, which had previously been found only in samples at least a million years old.
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POPS"Alien" Jellyfish Found in Arctic Deep Jellies are among the least understood groups of animals on Earth, Raskoff added. "They seem about as alien as animals get." Scientists plan to research more of the unexplored Arctic waters before warming and ice melt drastically transforms the ocean environment, according to NOAA's Web site. Biologists are realizing that jellyfish are more common predators in the oceans than thought.
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POPSIf climate change doesn’t grab you, meet its evil twin This catastrophe is in addition to over fishing, trawling seabeds, massive "soups" of poisonous plastic particles thousands of miles wide, not to mention all the other pollution that ends up in the sea. Mankind's abuse of its life supporting environment is almost to enormous to comprehend. What is happening in the sea is clear for all to see, even if the climate science is slightly foggy at the moment.
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POPSIt should not have taken hundreds of emails Year 2100, "Ocean pH levels will very likely decrease by as much as 0.5pH units, impairing ability of marine organisms such as corals, crabs and oyster to form shells or exoskeletons." This claim originated from the University of California's Professor Gretchen Hoffman, ". . . global warming . . . is threatening the future of Antarctic's tiny pteropod marine snail . . . atmospheric buildup of carbon dioxide is expected to make the oceans more acidic, impairing the snail's ability to make a shell . . . It is possible by 2050 they may not be able to make a shell any more." Hoffman called the pteropod the "potato chip" of the oceans, a food source for many aquatic creatures. This hoax would have never gotten off the ground if the media had done their jobs instead of being actively involved in the hoax themselves - instead they chose to let political agendas override journalistic principals.
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POPSPlanet Killing Opps? Plastic Bags + Plankton = ? Talk about a major unintended consequence? Better start demanding quick switch to biodegradable plastic bags or how about carrying things in your own bags! Got to be one of the dumbest and laziest ways to kill our planet and ourselves!
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POPSWatch The Cove Online Free Watch The Cove Movie Online. Watch The Cove Online Full Movie. Download The Cove. Rapidshare Megavideo. In a sleepy lagoon off the coast of Japan lies a shocking secret that a few desperate men will stop at nothing to keep hidden from the world. At last, the truth of THE COVE comes to the fore in an act of covert filmmaking that turns a documentary into a gripping action-adventure thriller . . . and a heart-pounding call for help from the worlds oceans.
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POPSThe Climate Skeptics Party Launch 4 Television Ads in Australia
NOAA: new ocean database spans to 1800 19 11 2009 Bill Illis and Bob Tisdale will likely make use of this. h/t to WUWT reader Chris D. NOAA Releases Expanded World Ocean Database http://bit.ly/4T04zq NOAA today released the World Ocean Database 2009, the largest, most comprehensive collection of scientific information about the oceans with records dating as far back as 1800. This product is part of the climate services provided by NOAA. The 2009 database, updated from the 2005 edition, is significantly larger providing approximately 9.1 million temperature profiles and 3.5 million salinity reports. The 2009 database also captures 29 categories of scientific information from the oceans, including oxygen levels and chemical tracers, plus information on gases and isotopes that can be used to trace the movement of ocean currents. “There is now more data about the global oceans than ever before,” said Sydney Levitus, director of the World Data Center for Oceanog
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POPS100 Things blamed on Global Warming 26. Snowfall in Baghdad 27. Western tree deaths 28. Diminishing desert resources 29. Pine beetles 30. Swedish beetles 31. Severe acne 32. Global conflict 33. Crash of Air France 447 34. Black Hawk Down incident 35. Amphibians breeding earlier 36. Flesh-eating disease 37. Global cooling 38. Bird strikes on US Airways 1549 39. Beer tastes different 40. Cougar attacks in Alberta 41. Suicide of farmers in Australia 42. Squirrels reproduce earlier 43. Monkeys moving to Great Rift Valley in Kenya 44. Confusion of migrating birds 45. Bigger tuna fish 46. Water shortages in Las Vegas 47. Worldwide hunger 48. Longer days 49. Earth spinning faster 50. Gender balance of crocodiles
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