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red sand beachs fight global bluing

Red Iron Sand Beaches Of Galapagos Sustains Ocean Refugia As Global Bluing Worsens

May 29, 2016
Russ George
Good News For The Planet

In the middle of the clearest and most lifeless ocean on earth red iron sand beaches of the Galapagos Islands sustain an oasis of life,…

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West Africa tuna war

West Africa Nations On Verge Of Regional Tuna War

May 20, 2016
Russ George
Business News

Some West African Nations Risk A Tuna War By Giving Drastic Cuts In Tuna License Fees To Lure And Keep Foreign Fleets Catching Last Of…

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west africa tuna boats

West Africa Tuna In Troubled Waters As CO2 Turns Sahel Green

May 18, 2016
Russ George
Business News

If one only considers the usual suspects when looking to explain tuna fisheries collapse one will fail to identify both the real source of the…

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Mozambique Tuna Pasture Collapse Sinks Fleet And Country in $850 Million Debt

Mozambique Tuna Pasture Collapse Sinks Fleet And Country in $850 Million Debt

May 17, 2016
Russ George
Business News

Mozambique tuna fisheries sent 160 boats to sea in 2007, last year fewer than 50 boats engaged in the offshore fishery. 24 new fishing boats,…

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ocean bacteria

The Most Abundant Plankton Are The Ocean Bacteria

May 17, 2016
Russ George
Get Your Geek On

In the beginning, this world was home only to ocean bacteria They alone colonized and lived on this blue planet for billions of years Until…

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namibia tuna workers

Namibia Tuna Collapse As Ocean Pastures Become Blue Deserts

May 16, 2016
Russ George
Bring Back The Fish

Namibia’s Large Pelagic (Tuna) Association is terribly worried over collapse of tuna catches in Namibian waters and whether the future holds worsening peril or might…

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yesterday's co2

Yesterday’s CO2 A Trillion Tons Already Emitted Prevents Reefs From Growing

May 13, 2016
Russ George
Bad News For The Planet, Get Your Geek On

In all of the yesterday’s of our fossil fuel age we have emitted a trillion tons of CO2 into our air. The vast majority of…

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World Bank Tuna Plan Blindly Focuses On The Catch Forgets The Habitat

World Bank Tuna Plan Blindly Focuses On The Catch Forgets The Habitat

May 12, 2016
Russ George
Business News

The World Bank has just submitted it’s 25 year tuna plan to sustain catch and increase value to Pacific Island Nations by $350 million per…

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yellowfin tuna ocean CO2

Seychelles Yellowfin Tuna Facing Ocean Pasture Peril And Promise

May 11, 2016
Russ George
Bad News For The Planet, Bring Back The Fish

The Indian Ocean Tuna Commission is calling for a dramatic 20% reduction in fishing allowances of the prized Seychelles Yellowfin tuna. Scientists say the species…

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yellowfin tuna

Netting Billions Tuna Report Utterly Ignores Vital Ocean Ecology

May 10, 2016
Russ George
Bring Back The Fish, Business News

A New Report By Pew Trust Purports To Tell All About Tuna Awash With Leadened Homilies Pew’s finger wagging at the ‘usual suspects’ and proclamation…

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terrans don't have access to blue planet

99.9% of Living Space On Earth Is In The Oceans Not For We Terrans

May 8, 2016
Russ George
Bizzare News For The Planet, Get Your Geek On

We terrans are very full of ourselves, we persist in proclaiming that this blue planet is all about us! Life on ‘earth’ is a tiny…

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plankton lungs of earth

Lungs Of Earth Shrivel Under Our CO2 Abuse And Neglect

May 6, 2016
Russ George
Bad News For The Planet

Ocean phytoplankton are the lungs of Earth, our suffering blue planet becomes an ever bluer desert. Phytoplankton natural dispersal over globe in the course of…

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just one ship needed

Why Won’t The World Spare Just One Ship To Save Ocean Pastures

May 3, 2016
Russ George
Bad News For The Planet, Bring Back The Fish

Every year scores of thousands of ships move 11 billion tons of cargo across the world’s oceans. If just one ship, just one out of…

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Often one cannot catch the unknown in a net of the known. - anon

"There is something fascinating about science. One gets such wholesale returns of conjecture out of such trifling investment of fact." Mark Twain, Life on the Mississippi

"It's like religion. Heresy in science is thought of as a bad thing, whereas it should be just the opposite." - Thomas Gold

Unnamed Law: If it happens, it must be possible.

" If you steal from one person, well they call that plagarism. I steal from everyone, they call that research. - Woody Guthrie

“If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about answers.”

- Thomas Pynchon

When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong. - Arthur C. Clarke's First Law

It is through science that we prove, but through intuition that we discover. - H. Poincare

"Nothing is too wonderful to be true if it be consistent with the laws of nature." - Michael Faraday

A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it. - Max Planck

Corollary: Science advances funeral by funeral.

A man with a new idea is a crank until he succeeds. - Mark Twain

Never attribute to conspiracy that which is adequately explained by stupidity. - R. George

Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are that good, you'll have to ram them down people's throats. - Howard Aiken

I am tired of all this sort of thing called science here ... We have spent millions in that sort of thing for the last few years, and it is time it should be stopped. - U.S. Senator Simon Cameron, on the Smithsonian Institute (1901)

The one who says it cannot be done should never interrupt the one who's doing it!  The Roman Rule

 "I never make predictions, especially about the future" - Casey Stengle

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