Mysterious Mass Animal Die-Offs
"Over the last couple of years the mysterious mass deaths of birds, bees, fish and other wildlife has been raising alarm bells for many in the scientific community. While the reaction from those in the mainstream news has been largely dismissive, itÂ’s getting hard to ignore the numbers.
For instance, did you know that there have been over 6.7 Million Bat deaths in the U.S. over the last 5 years?
And what about all the strange die-offs in just the first five months of this years?
Timeline:
January 2, 2012
20 Tons of Dead Fish Wash up in Norway
Residents in a small Norwegian town woke to find millions of dead fish on the shores of Kvaenes, in Nordreisa. The school of Herring literally blanketed the entire shoreline.
January 5,2012
100 tons of Fish Die in Brazil
An estimates 100 tons of sardines, croaker, and catfish have died off the shores of Paraná, Brazil.
January 19, 2012
3 Tons of dead fish wash up in Somalia (TWICE)
For the second time in less than a month Dead fish washed up on the Bossaso shores in Somalia. The first incident happened in January followed by a second die-off in February. Both incidents happened all along the coast of Puntland.
February 18, 2012
52,000 Sea Urchins dead off Kaumakani Hawaii
An estimated 52,000 sea urchins were found dead by divers near Kaumakani Hawaii. Scientists say that the death of these sea urchins should serve as an early warning sign indicating that large-scale changes are happening in our oceans.
March 2012
Hundreds of Dead Dolphins in the Atlantic
Hundred of dead dolphins have been found dead on the shores of the Atlantic Ocean, off the United States. A majority of the dead dolphins are being found on the shores of Cape Cod in Massachusetts.
April 24, 2012
28,613 dead fish in Ohio
The Ohio Division of Wildlife finds 28,613 fish and other aquatic species dead along a three-mile stretch of the Rocky River. The fish included bass, darters, a large variety of minnows, rainbow trout and white suckers.
April 25, 2012
11,000 Dead Fish Kettering Ohio
11,000 Fish found dead at Little Beaver Creek in Kettering Ohio. Wildlife officials say itÂ’s the third fish die-off in the last two weeks to hit the Dayton Ohio area. The dead aquatic species included bass, catfish, suckers, darters, salamanders, frogs and crayfish.
April 2012
3000 Dead Dolphins Peru
As many as 3000 Dead dolphins have been found near Peru and around 900 of them have washed up on the Shores of Peru since January 2012.
May 10, 2012
Thousands of dead sand eels New Jersey
The New Jersey Environmental Department reported thousands of dead sand eels found washed up on New Jersey beaches in St Clement, Bonne Nuit, St Ouen and Ouaisne.
May 10,2012
550 tons of dead farmed salmon
Norwegian Fisheries are keeping a watchful eye on their fish, as a number of fishing facilities reported a large number of farmed salmon deaths. So far over 550 tons of dead salmon have been found in the last ten days.
May 12, 2012
Thousands of Dead Birds found of the Shores of Chile
Thousands of dead gray petrels, pelicans, gannets and cormorants were found on the beaches of central Chile. Some experts believe that this bird Die-off may be related to the Peruvian pelican die-off.
So why are so many animals mysteriously dying off?
So far, the reaction from the scientific community has been mixed. A number of experts suggest that many of these events are probably natural and say that over reporting is causing unnecessary panic. But when you see reports of millions of dead fish washing up at the same time and then hear the media dismiss thousands of dead birds dropping form the sky as natural phenomenon, it starts to make you a little bit suspicious.
Are we poisoning the planet?"
--Maybe it's pesticides. But like the bee die-offs, I think carbonic and other acids accentuate the effects, of pesticides and other petroleum pollution. You decide. But animals are dying.
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Mass Extinction, Mass Die-Off Information, Prehistoric Facts -- National Geographic
"More than 90 percent of all organisms that have ever lived on Earth are extinct. As new species evolve to fit ever changing ecological niches, older species fade away. But the rate of extinction is far from constant. At least a handful of times in the last 500 million years, 50 to more than 90 percent of all species on Earth have disappeared in a geological blink of the eye.
Though these mass extinctions are deadly events, they open up the planet for new life-forms to emerge. Dinosaurs appeared after one of the biggest mass extinction events on Earth, the Permian-Triassic extinction about 250 million years ago. The most studied mass extinction, between the Cretaceous and Paleogene periods about 65 million years ago, killed off the dinosaurs and made room for mammals to rapidly diversify and evolve.
The causes of these mass extinction events are unsolved mysteries, though volcanic eruptions and the impacts of large asteroids or comets are prime suspects in many of the cases. Both would eject tons of debris into the atmosphere, darkening the skies for at least months on end. Starved of sunlight, plants and plant-eating creatures would quickly die. Space rocks and volcanoes could also unleash toxic and heat-trapping gases that—once the dust settled—enable runaway global warming."
--Global warming kills, DDs and smart people. The smart people are going to have to get past the DDs, or you-know-what. I have this one DD named Wienerbender, who is now trying to inform me about acidification, when it took me about 10 posts and an OP for a thread on this, to get him to read it. Now he's got a couple acid-rants up, like he's schooling me.
Neo-con fucktard geeks suck.
