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Sir Attenborough explains global deal to protect ocean

newtboy says...

A good, even *quality idea....for 40+ years ago.

It took 100+ years to mortally wound the ocean by 1000 cuts. A bandaid on one wound is not going to turn it around, and we almost certainly aren't going to do it anyway. Countries that don't buy into the plan will simply harvest most of the fish left by those who do. This only works in small scale preserves that are guarded against poaching, often by a military.

Fish stocks are disappearing at an alarming rate, many going extinct. For those species, it's too late, and they are numerous, and they are largely the fish humans prefer. Many others are in such decline fishing for them is already off limits or severely curtailed, like commercial salmon, abalone, and crab fishing in California. Even those actions have failed to revive their populations year after year.

Diatoms, phytoplankton, and other similar biotas are at the limit of acidity and temperature they can tolerate, and they are the base of the ocean food web, feeding most fish when they are fry or larvae. The gasses in the atmosphere today will push diatoms over that precipice with a massive ocean extinction following soon afterwards, and we continue to add more greenhouse gases than we added yesterday every day.

Then there's habitat loss, coral reefs and kelp forests are both being decimated by temperature rise and acidification. Together they are food and habitat for 25%-50% of all ocean fish and shellfish.

Less over harvesting of the ocean is a good idea, but pretending it alone can save the oceans is pure fantasy. The ocean has absorbed as much as 90+% of the excess heat from global warming, causing oceanic heat waves that destroy habitats both directly and indirectly. There is NO plan that solves that problem, it's well beyond our capabilities under the best conditions with worldwide maximum efforts.

Just sayin'.

Life Cycle of the Hercules Beetle

Canon 7D vs leaf cutter ants

nanrod says...

The ants will be fine. They use the leaves as mulch to grow fungus that they feed to their larvae. The adult ants feed on leaf sap, so when they cut up the plastic, no sap, no problem.

The Mosquito Killer Billboard

AeroMechanical says...

I'm fairly certain that attempting to kill the adult mosquitos (short of major DDT fumigating, which is frowned upon except in extreme situations) isn't considered very effective. It's the larvae you need to get, mostly by cleaning urban areas of old tires and other places where water collects unnecessarily.

Could we, should we annihilate Zika mosquitoes?

newtboy says...

Whenever there's a mosquito vectored disease, people talk about eradicating mosquitos, but never consider their role in the food chain, and it is not a small role.
They also never consider the effects of the eradication methods, which are often poison sprayed into the air or onto ponds. Decades ago, a 12 year old boy designed and made a device for eradicating mosquitos in water using sound waves for a science project, and it worked. He tuned his device to resonate at the same frequency as the gas bladder in mosquito larva, popping it and killing the mosquitos without effecting anything else, and leaving no residue. For some reason, I never hear about that method being used, but instead often see people dosing small ponds with poison, oil, or bacteria, all of which harm other organisms.
Targeting single strains of mosquito with genetics may be a good way to deal with disease issues, but will certainly also have unexpected unpredictable consequences. I hope they remember the fiasco caused by creating killer bees and study the issue from all sides thoroughly before releasing them into the wild.

Grouper Eates Lionfish

Morganth says...

From Wikipedia: "Aside from instances of larger lionfish individuals engaging in cannibalism on smaller individuals, adult lionfish have few identified natural predators, likely due to the effectiveness of their venomous spines. Moray eels (family Muraenidae), bluespotted cornetfish (Fistularia commersonii), and large groupers, like the tiger grouper (Mycteroperca tigris) and Nassau grouper (Epinephelus striatus), have been observed preying on lionfish. It remains unknown, however, how commonly these predators prey on lionfish. Sharks are also believed to be capable of preying on lionfish with no ill effects from their spines. Park officials of the Roatan Marine Park in Honduras have attempted to train sharks to feed on lionfish as of 2011 in an attempt to control the invasive populations in the Caribbean. Predators of larvae and juvenile lionfish remain unknown, but may prove to be the primary limiting factor of lionfish populations in their native range."

A-10 taking off, filmed with a GoPro from inside the cockpit

AeroMechanical says...

When the pilot is (presumably) speaking on the radio about 20 seconds in, and his respirator is sort of pulsating relative to his helmet, he definitely looks like some kind of giant evil insect larva.

Cop Sexually Assaults Woman Then Arrests Her For Protesting

chingalera says...

Yeah man, the friends of the men in blue haven't a clue-It's a good ol' boy club that stretches way back into the bowels of the worst of what America has to offer-Known plenty of ex-cops who saw the beast and scrambled...They're called humane, have ethics instilled through a healthy childhood, etc. People who want to be cops fit a profile and for the majority of these, it's developmental disability fueled with wrong-livelihood. The profession has a history, most of her employees, damaged.

Compare cop-world to recidivism as the result of the prison system in the U.S., and you have the trained predator grooming humans for insertion of larvae....Self-perpetuating horseshit, people should police themselves and their own communities.

Caterpillar Speed Trick

Hey Dude, Is That A Worm In Your Head

Hey Dude, Is That A Worm In Your Head

Bananas? Or Shampoo Bottles? (User Poll by albrite30)

Saudi Woman Defies Religious Police over Nail Polish in Mall

chingalera says...

Brave woman, the planet needs more and more like them popping out like larvae in the Muslim world to stand up against the ingrained ignorance, fear, and general cocksuckerdom of Persian males. It would probably take a few generations to straighten the whole planet out if people would somehow get their collective heads outta their own assholes....

Baby Moving in Womb, 31 Weeks

Minecraft's Top 5 Mods (Videogames Talk Post)

ant jokingly says...

>> ^dag:

Yep - Kim Dag Il Jr. will lead the glorious Sifter's Republic when I pass. >> ^ant:
>> ^dag:
Sorry, let me translate to Ant: have to show it to my larvae. >> ^ant:
>> ^dag:
Sweet. Have to show this to the boy.

Boy? Who is the boy?
There should be a VS server for Minecraft.


Wait, you have a son and kids/children?



No, you must live forever.



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