Our Oceans are Under Attack

Let me understand your mind set, imaginary number.
Environmental groups and ecology minded folk and those believing/preaching man induced climate change are honest, forthright, truthful, unbiased, and accurate.
Everybody else is biased, scheming, dishonest, lying and has hidden agendas?
Hahahahaha!

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ayGJ1YSfDXs

“Open-air cesspools of toxic manure”: The disgusting secrets of modern American farming

 

Gotta LUV Cap'n Jack Sparrow!

 

Another Side Effect of Climate Change and El Niño Events? Shorter Kids | Mother Jones

 

Global Analysis - November 2014 | NOAA

 

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/12/18/air-pollution-autism-_n_6345448.html

Mom's Exposure To Air Pollution In Pregnancy Doubles Child's Risk Of Autism, Study Says


NEW YORK, Dec 18 (Reuters) - Children whose mothers were exposed to high levels of fine particulate pollution in late pregnancy have up to twice the risk of developing autism as children of mothers breathing cleaner air, scientists at Harvard School of Public Health reported on Thursday.

The greater the exposure to fine particulates emitted by fires, vehicles, and industrial smokestacks the greater the risk, found the study, published online in Environmental Health Perspectives.

Earlier research also found an autism-pollution connection, including a 2010 study that found the risk of autism doubled if a mother, during her third trimester, lived near a freeway, a proxy for exposure to particulates. But this is the first to examine the link across the United States, and "provides additional support" to a possible link, said Heather Volk of the University of Southern California Children's Hospital, who led earlier studies.

U.S. diagnoses of autism soared to one in 68 children in 2010 (the most recent data) from one in 150 in 2000, government scientists reported in March. Experts are divided on how much of the increase reflects greater awareness and how much truly greater incidence.

Although the disorder has a strong genetic basis, the increasing incidence has spurred scientists to investigate environmental causes, too, since genes do not change quickly enough to explain the rise.

 

Thinking Outside the Bus

http://www.alternet.org/scoop-poop-bus-how-human-and-animal-waste-might-fuel-our-future


Scientists in the UK say that biogas collected from waste has the potential of replacing around 17% of vehicle fuel there. It can also be easily compressed the same way natural gas is. When it is properly cleaned, like it was for the Bio-Bus, it becomes biomethane, which is a viable replacement for natural gas, clean enough for gas-grid injection and indoor uses such as heating and cooking.

Last month, we were in collective awe of the Bio-Bus, better known as the Poop Bus, when it made international headlines. The 40-seat bus, which runs on biomethane gas collected from human waste, was put into service in the UK, where it now travels the Bristol-to-Bath route.


The Bio-Bus, a 40-seat mass transit vehicle that can travel 186 miles on a tank of compressed gas produced from human waste, is a lot less disgusting than you think. It may even be an ingenious, carbon-neutral way to make use of our waste.

One tank of fuel on the Bio-Bus is roughly equal to the waste produced by five people in a year’s time. The exhaust emits about 30% less carbon dioxide than the standard diesel engine of a similarly sized bus. There is an environmental benefit to burning fuel that is generated from human waste: Much of the carbon emissions are carbon neutral, as the CO2 released by the bus was captured from the atmosphere only months or years before, in the food humans consumed to create the waste. By contrast, fuels like oil and coal release carbon into the atmosphere that has been stored in the earth for ages.

The Bristol sewage plant, which is operated by GENeco, can produce a lot more biomethane than just to run a bus line. The plant processes around 75 million cubic meters of sewage waste and about 35,000 tons of food waste a year. According to the BBC, that is enough waste to produce about 17 cubic meters of biomethane, likely enough fuel to power about 8% of Bristol’s homes.

 

Live longer? Save the planet? Better diet could nail both | Science Daily

http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v515/n7528/full/nature13959.html

 

Shrinking ship bubbles ‘could counteract climate change | BBC

 

Why your taxes pay to make climate change worse | CBC News

 

Alaska fish adjust to climate change by following the food | PHYS.org

Fish Flee Warming Waters: Study Claims Climate Change To Blame | Inquisitr

 

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/dec/21/life-inside-america-food-processing-plants-cheap-meat

“I feel thrown away,” one worker told me. “Like a piece of trash.” This comment came at the end of one particularly grim case of worker injury and discrimination at Quality Pork Processors – the exclusive co-packer for Hormel’s flagship plant in Austin, Minnesota – at a part of the kill floor called the “head table”. Every hour, more than 1,300 severed pork heads would go sliding along the belt. Workers sliced off the ears, clipped the snouts, chiselled the cheek meat. They scooped out the eyes, carved out the tongues, and scraped the palate meat from the roofs of mouths.
The last worker harvested the brains by inserting the metal nozzle of a 90lb-per-square-inch compressed-air hose into the opening at the back of each skull, tripping a trigger that blasted the pig’s brains into a pink slurry. (The brains were sold in Asia as a thickener for stir-fry.) But each burst of air was also aerosolising small amounts of porcine brain tissue, which workers were unknowingly inhaling.
The workers’ immune systems produced antibodies to destroy the foreign cells, but because porcine and human neurological cells are so similar, the antibodies didn’t recognise when the foreign cells had been eliminated – and began destroying the healthy human neural tissue of the workers.
The speed of pork production is not only affecting the health and safety of workers on the line; now lines are moving so fast that the safety of consumers is being placed at risk. Inspectors have discovered pig carcasses with lesions from tuberculosis, septic arthritis (with bloody fluid pouring from joints) and smears from faecal matter and intestinal contents. But the plants were never shut down. The chain never stopped. The US Department of Agriculture’s inspector general warned that these “recurring, severe violations may jeopardise public health” but concluded that because they do not face substantial consequences for repeated food safety violations, “the plants have little incentive to improve their slaughter processes”.
Statistically, people who work at any meat-packing plant for five years have a nearly 50-50 chance of suffering a serious injury. And an extensive study of packing-house workers conducted by the University of Iowa in 2008 suggested that the number of injuries may be significantly under-reported. The study found that the large numbers of undocumented workers from Mexico and other parts of Latin America are almost half as likely to report an injury or job-related illness as their white counterparts.
In 2006 and 2007, when the American mortgage crisis began to peak and then stock markets crashed worldwide, the freedom to run faster production lines positioned Hormel to capitalise on demand the economic downturn created for budget-friendly meat like Spam without significantly increasing its workforce or raising wages to match the elevated output. The industry has been stretched to the breaking point by the drive for cheaper and cheaper meat. And Hormel, in particular, with its runaway demand for Spam and no government regulation to slow things down, has pushed its lines to breakneck speeds.

 

If the Right is wrong on climate change, the Earth burns | Market Watch

 

Ancient Arctic sea ice discovery provides the key to future climate prediction | Science Nordic

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zORv8wwiadQ#t=443 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AE6Kdo1AQmY

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