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About Reports on Ocean Extinction And The Usual Suspects

About Reports on Ocean Extinction And The Usual Suspects

January 20, 2015
Russ George
Bad News For The Planet

A paper in the Journal Science is being widely reported as portending imminent mass ocean extinctions The oceans are indeed under a severe threat but…

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How Many Canaries Have To Die

How Many Canaries Have To Die

January 13, 2015
Russ George
Bad News For The Planet

Canaries placed in coal mines were once a vital warning system for miners. When the canaries in a coal mine were observed to be acting…

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Pacific Ocean Pasture Collapse Starving Countless Seabirds

Pacific Ocean Pasture Collapse Starving Countless Seabirds

January 5, 2015
Russ George
Bad News For The Planet

Seabirds dying by the tens of thousands, perhaps millions, in the Eastern Pacific All along the west coast of North America from British Columbia south…

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seven salmon biologists

State Of Alaska Declares Emergency: Chinook Salmon Starving At Sea

September 4, 2014
Russ George
Bad News For The Planet, Bring Back The Fish

“It’s NOT the fresh water production of the juvenile Chinook that is the reason this decline is occurring, it’s being driven by poor marine survival,”…

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sockeye underwater

25 Million Salmon Lost On Pacific Coast

September 2, 2014
Russ George
Bad News For The Planet

25 million sockeye salmon expected to be swimming into the Strait of Juan de Fuca near Seattle are nowhere to be found! It has been…

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last of the cod

Atlantic Cod Declining Even More — We Can Bring Them Back

August 10, 2014
Russ George
Bad News For The Planet, Bring Back The Fish

More bad news as federal regulators declare populations of Atlantic cod continue to diminish, despite severe cuts in fishing quotas. Nearly 30 years of ‘conservation’…

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clearest water on earth

Clearest Water On Earth Grows In Area – The Wonder – The Horror

August 8, 2014
Russ George
Bad News For The Planet

What do you think of when you hear a report of the clearest water on earth? For most the idea that comes to mind is…

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salmonid alevins

Copper Kills Salmon Sense Of Smell

August 7, 2014
Russ George
Bad News For The Planet, Get Your Geek On

Will The Largest Mine Waste Disaster In History In Canada Destroy The Largest Salmon Run In History A study in Ecological Applications reveals incredibly small…

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Ocean Pasture Plankton Blooms Scrub Mercury From The Surface Ocean

Ocean Pasture Plankton Blooms Scrub Mercury From The Surface Ocean

August 6, 2014
Russ George
And Yet It Works!, Bad News For The Planet, Get Your Geek On

Crisis of high and rising mercury in the oceans is growing worse Amount of toxic mercury to double by 2050 Nature’s cure is at hand…

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Quesnel Lake Toxic Spill Science Primer

Quesnel Lake Toxic Spill Science Primer

August 5, 2014
Russ George
Bad News For The Planet

It’s Begun, Dueling Boffin Banjos. Global News in Canada has rounded up a university boffin to profess on whether the 19 million cubic meter, 5…

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mount polley mine spill

FISHPOCALYPSE NOW Toxic Waste Spills Into Top Salmon River From Canadian Mine

August 4, 2014
Russ George
Bad News For The Planet

The Fraser River that pours into the sea near Vancouver is the most productive salmon river in the world. Just now as the salmon have…

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Global Dust July 2014

Global Dust Observations From Space Reveal Dramatic Declines

July 31, 2014
Russ George
Bad News For The Planet, Get Your Geek On

Our ability to observe and measure dust around the world is best served by the satellite fleet. Those observations show a great decline in vital…

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puffins

Ocean Canaries Are Dying – It’s the coal mined!

July 30, 2014
Russ George
Bad News For The Planet

Winter storms a few months ago brought reports of thousands of sea birds dead on the beaches of Europe. We reported the dire state of…

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whale ship bow

Blue Whales Spared Ship Collisions On Relocated Restored Ocean Pastures

July 29, 2014
Russ George
Bad News For The Planet, Good News For The Planet

We can spare blue whales from being run down by ships if we provide them with alternative restored ocean pastures. Even though commercial whaling was…

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barcelona fish market

Seafoods Carbon Footprint

July 27, 2014
Russ George
Bad News For The Planet, Get Your Geek On

Catching Wild Seafoods Consumes A Lot Of Diesel Fuel Robert Parker, a young fisheries scientist at the University of Tasmania, Hobart, in Australia, and Peter…

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pelican flying

A Wonderful Bird Is The Pelican

July 16, 2014
Russ George
Bad News For The Planet

But this year neither his beak nor belly hold anything. California brown pelicans’ breeding numbers are in drastic decline this year, according to an annual…

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Eddy avenue 1

Warming Ocean Grows More Vital Eddies Near Australia

July 14, 2014
Russ George
Bad News For The Planet, Get Your Geek On

Ocean eddies are growing “The ocean temperatures east of Tasmania are some of the fastest rising in the world,” said Iain Suthers, a professor at…

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Beware The Climate Industrial Complex

Beware The Climate Industrial Complex

July 1, 2014
Russ George
Bad News For The Planet, Bizzare News For The Planet

Societies react to dangers and crisis’ in predictable ways that are frequently exploited by financial political monsters. In 1961, President and General Dwight D.  (Ike)…

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privateers of old

Nations Fight The Last Great Sea Battle Using Fishing Privateers

June 25, 2014
Russ George
Bad News For The Planet, Bring Back The Fish, Business News

Subsidies paid to fishing fleets by their government often pays for 60% of the fuel cost. Without these privateers’ subsidies the world’s catch would be…

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Declining Dust In The Wind Slows Ocean Plankton Growth Increasing CO2 In Air

Declining Dust In The Wind Slows Ocean Plankton Growth Increasing CO2 In Air

June 12, 2014
Russ George
Bad News For The Planet, Geoengineering ?

High CO2 results in declining dust in the wind, in ancient times less dust meant less iron reached oceans to sustain plant life. A new…

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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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