CO2 Levels Are Super-Sizing Crabs

[longknife]

Crustaceans bulk up as carbon levels rise

By Rob Quinn, Newser Staff, Posted Apr 8, 2013 3:27 AM CDT

(Newser) – Carbon emissions usually make news for their effect on the climate, but they're also having a major impact on marine ecosystems in the form of creating huge crustaceans, the Washington Post finds. In the Chesapeake Bay area and many others, oyster and scallop populations are dropping as crabs—who are able to grow their shells much faster in high-carbon conditions—become bigger and more numerous

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Good for the crab fishermen, bad for the oyster harvesters, great for those who love to eat these things.

 

[Wry Catcher]

They're easy to control.

1. Shave one half of your pubic hair;

2. Soak the other half in lighter fluid.

3. Light the soaked half with a match.

4. stab the damn crabs with an ice pick when they run out of the fire.

 

[longknife]

 

[skookerasbil]

w00t

 

[mamooth]

Crabs are becoming an endangered species, due to the work of those dastardly Brazilians.

Brazilian Bikini Waxes Make Crab Lice Endangered Species - Bloomberg