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- apiecealarry, on 10/11/2007, -2/+11Anyone who has taken any kind of Marine Biology or Oceanography in the past few years knows how prominent and obvious the decline of the health of the oceans is becoming. Continued shifting of ocean currents and migration/over-fishing of ocean life could cause apocalyptic-like consequences (i.e. possibly resulting in the reversal of the gulf stream)
see this website for more explanations on how important the ocean systems can effect our world:
http://www.whoi.edu/page.do?pid=12455- Wanteddoa, on 10/11/2007, -1/+11So you're saying humans are to blame for destroying marine life? And here I thought dumping thousands of gallons of toxic chemicals into the oceans was good for the fish. Go figure.
- ZephyrNinety, on 10/11/2007, -4/+7Wet.
- ThatForumPlace, on 10/11/2007, -5/+1I'm getting there too
- kylesellers, on 10/11/2007, -13/+4I don't think Oceans need to be "conserved." It's not like we're running out of ocean or anything...
Besides, I think there is a higher demand on LAND than on ocean. I mean, unless we grow gills or something, we're going to run out of places to live before we run out of tuna...- nycmac247, on 10/11/2007, -4/+10OK ... can you do this for me?
1) Fill a bathtub full of water
2) Relax! - get into bathtub and start to soak and relax
3) wait a while - wow! isn't this nice?
4) Have a friend come in and spray diarrhea in your bathwater.
5) stay in the bathwater for another 20 minutes.
6) Your friend might be shocked - no problem; tell him you spend most of your time on land and that your body is not 70% water but instead 70% LAND. Also, mention how the food chain does not start in the oceans ... er... bathtub but instead up his *****.
This is so neat - I think the oceans should be used up and that it can never "run out" yeah!!! I'm a ***** idiot!!!
Maybe you could take yoga to learn how to blow yourself?- Railer, on 10/11/2007, -3/+1Just to get the numbers right on your bathtub analogy.
"The world ocean covers 71 percent of the earth's surface, or about 361 million sq km (140 million sq mi). Its average depth is 5,000 m (16,000 ft), and its total volume is about 1,347,000,000 cu km (322,300,000 cu mi)."
322,300,000 / 6,000,000,000 = 0.053716667 Cubic Miles/per person
1 cubic miles = 147 197 952 000 cubic feet
so each person gets 7,906,983,322 cubic feet per tub, so assuming a nice 2 foot deep by 3 foot wide tub means your tub is A QUARTER OF A MILLION MILES LONG!
That's right every person on the planet has a bathtub of water THAT REACHES THE ***** MOON!
SO ya moron if the guy wants to spray diarrhea in my bath water tell him to go to town.
Kylesellers got it right, you are just an alarmist moron, who has no ***** clue how big the world really is, and how incredibly small human beings are.- apiecealarry, on 10/11/2007, -1/+2It's exactly because the ocean is so big that it's important that it stays in balance. It's not the amount of water that's important but what's going on in the water - they aren't saying the ocean is running out. If you really think that the human influence on the ocean is so small, consider the many studies that have come out over the last two years that declare that if nothing changes in the world's fishing practices that the majority of the world's supply of fish will be exhausted by 2050.
See: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/6108414.stm for a description
- apiecealarry, on 10/11/2007, -1/+2It's exactly because the ocean is so big that it's important that it stays in balance. It's not the amount of water that's important but what's going on in the water - they aren't saying the ocean is running out. If you really think that the human influence on the ocean is so small, consider the many studies that have come out over the last two years that declare that if nothing changes in the world's fishing practices that the majority of the world's supply of fish will be exhausted by 2050.
- Railer, on 10/11/2007, -3/+1Just to get the numbers right on your bathtub analogy.
- nycmac247, on 10/11/2007, -4/+10OK ... can you do this for me?
- orangester, on 10/11/2007, -2/+4If the oceans go bad what will happen to the pirates?
- Ajjah, on 10/11/2007, -0/+120 Trillion Dollars... Is that Canadian or US?
- kylesellers, on 10/11/2007, -0/+3Australian.
- nycmac247, on 10/11/2007, -1/+2Already too late; sorry.
- coloredapples, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2it would be better to have a collection of fish. someday, someone could just point out to your children's children that "this is how a clown fish would look like". someday, we'll get to that.
- rcran, on 10/11/2007, -0/+5Isn't the annual Ice Cube dropping due some time soon?
- Cranq, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2... solving the problem ONCE AND FOR ALL!
- madm0nk, on 10/11/2007, -1/+3Whoa ... I think that hippy is starting to kick in.
I know this has nothing to do with the ocean, but every time someone quotes Futurama I think of that episode where the alien eats the hippy. I laughed for weeks after watching that =P
- NuchDog, on 10/11/2007, -1/+2"In the report, we’ve devised a scheme that looks at the coastal waters of the world and divides them into 12 realms (such as the Tropical Atlantic Ocean); 62 provinces (places like the Mediterranean Sea); and 232 ecoregions (smaller and more homogenous units such as the Northern Gulf of Mexico or the Marshall Islands)."
Yeah now there is more useless crap to teach kids that they will never care about! - Vascabruta, on 10/11/2007, -1/+1We will probably not run out of land, or Tuna. But if we don't preserve these things we will end up living in filth.
g2bgreen.com - waynesim, on 10/11/2007, -5/+0Water, Water, Water....it's just too important for humankind and our mother earth!
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http://hubpages.com/hub/learn-spanish-language - gta3mobster, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2With global warming as the hot topic nowadays, I brainstorm about alternative reasons to explain why it's occurring. Does anybody know how oceanic temperatures have changed over the past 50 years?
I'm pondering if all of the nuclear warhead testing the world did has affected the atmosphere. I live near lake Michigan and as people who live by lakes know, even when a cold front comes in the lake will keep the area warm. Likewise, in the summer when a heatwave comes in the lake keeps the land cooler. It takes water much longer to change temperature than land.
Perhaps the atmosphere has been damaged so significantly the oceans are slowly warming up. That would explain why the glaciers are melting and maybe the volatile hurricane seasons... Not really related to the article directly, but hey, it's about the oceans.- apiecealarry, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1Actually, there is some research that pretty much says that the rising ocean temperatures is definitely linked to the increase of hurricanes - slight temperature shifts of only a few degrees in the average temperature of the ocean can have dramatic effects.
- jpop, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1To clarify, increase in hurricanes due to rising ocean temperatures. Not rising ocean temperatures due to increases in hurricanes. My recollection is that hurricanes can only form over ocean water that's over 80 degrees.
- apiecealarry, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1Actually, there is some research that pretty much says that the rising ocean temperatures is definitely linked to the increase of hurricanes - slight temperature shifts of only a few degrees in the average temperature of the ocean can have dramatic effects.
- Disneyisevil50, on 10/11/2007, -2/+0Come on guys, it's just cyclical
- cherwilco, on 10/11/2007, -1/+2um yeah....cuz like every 40 thousand years our oceans get all polluted and stuff
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- Disneyisevil50, on 10/10/2007, -0/+0sarcasm
- cherwilco, on 10/11/2007, -1/+2um yeah....cuz like every 40 thousand years our oceans get all polluted and stuff
- deathweaver108, on 10/11/2007, -1/+1"But as demand on oceans grows, how can we ensure that they're being conserved and carefully managed worldwide? "
we can't - Hobofuzz, on 10/11/2007, -1/+1I've got a simple solution for conservation:
Stop letting stupid people breed.
That would slow down the human population growth rate by at least 2/3.
Problem solved.- jpop, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1Are you volunteering to be first? It's kind of hard to manage that sort of thing.
- MaximusIGN, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1>>how can we ensure that they're being conserved and carefully managed worldwide?
Easy. Put Bush in charge of it when he steps down as President...no? - Caledon, on 10/11/2007, -0/+0protection from storms? don't flatter them
- eredux, on 10/11/2007, -1/+0Check this US Carbon Footprint Map out, has United States Interactive Carbon Footprint Map, illustrating Greenest States. This site has all sorts of stats on individual State energy consumptions, demographics and State energy offices.
http://www.eredux.com/states/ - climateHeretic, on 10/11/2007, -0/+0Why do scientists, environmentalists and general do-gooders think they can second guess the planet? We are so arrogant that we think we can fix things that are so beyond our scope of understanding, I think that it is really kind of scarey. Check this out... http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=11462066
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