Save the Ocean

Save the dying ocean and her resources
Entry for November 03, 2006- E2- Save the dying ocean and her resources magnify

It does not matter where on Earth you live, everyone is utterly dependent on the existence of that lovely, living saltwater soup. There’s plenty of water in the universe without life, but nowhere is there life without water. The living ocean drives planetary chemistry, governs climate and weather, and otherwise provides the cornerstone of the life-support system for all creatures on our planet, from deep-sea starfish to desert sagebrush. That’s why the ocean matters. If the sea is sick, we’ll feel it. If it dies, we die. Our future and the state of the oceans are one.

I started this story , after I came across this top story -Ocean Fish, Seafood Could Collapse By 2048 - Study -
http://www.planetark.org/dailynewsstory.cfm/newsid/38799/story.htm

It is quite an absolute fact that so much of the surface of the planet is composed of water makes it habitable. Like the air and climate is seen or thought to be beyond human puny influence. The ocean is the most threatened part of the environment. It is perfectly true that human use the ocean as a dump. After first pouring down of rains, life begins to stir, it was from the ocean that plant and animals emerge to colonize the land surface planet, for everything is created from water. It is ocean that provide water vapor which drawn up by sustaining rain. Ocean water is our planet filtering system where all debris, both minerals and biological is dissolved, decomposed, and transformed into large septic tank from which clean water return to human, beast and plant through evaporation and precipitation .The ocean is the universal moderator of temperature - it is major provider of oxygen released for all species on land, air and sea consumed by breathing with long and gills.

As u can see, water cover 3/4 of our planet , 95 percent of whichis inthe ocean ,, of the remaining 5 percent lies frozen in the polar region ,and all the lakes , rivers,moisture in the air,soil and vegetation and underground amount to one percent of the total .Therefore water is life , beside the story creation narated that everything is created from water.

Without water qualities for absorbing heat, our planet will be Inabitable.the Ocean is the coolant of the tropic the provider of warm currents to cool regions. The ocean has been in more special way so beneficial to human -The ocean has been the firs that link human together through world wide currents of seaborne trade .the ocean the ocean provide human through fish a vast harvest of protein-100th million tons of fish harvest from the ocean cover four- fifth of the whole – unfortunately this vast harvest is not enough to cater for the protein we need , thus the large part of it go for help to offset deficiency which thirteen so many planet children.

Unfortunately, there is soberly on humanity of our world an unacceptable diversion of resources to feed pigs and chicken in some places. The ocean has been beyond man puny influence, whether wee see it as sacral cleaner or earth human shore or the cruel widow maker of a million shipwreck, hurricanes and typhoon , it remain the restlessly powerful serenely indifference to all the busy activities men seek to pursue in and under its buoyancy treacherous waves. In fact many are still under illusion or mediaeval concept of an endless ocean - seriously many think that once polluted river emptied into the open sea, once city sewer system is far away from land, all industrial and urban discharge will disappear somehow into blue space beyond horizon as if we pipe it away from our own planet. Many are in oblivion for a moment that the world is round and without edges.

The first and only refuge man has ever disposed of outside this planet is what was packed in the moon – this is also in the name of uncertainty about how the planet is linked to other planets. Every ounce of material dumped or channeled into the sea from the very morning of time until the modern age of industrialization has accumulated in one form or another inside the same land lock sea. - The lowest section of our biosphere with and the only one with no outlet for refuse. Standing on the beach gazing towards the horizon where blue sea runs into blue sky.

We refuse to digest the message from twenty century voyagers, who every year cross the ocean from continent to continent and the astronauts who see the whole planet from above , all giving their witness that the ocean has none of the infinite we give it in our dream. The ocean is deep and spread in al directions ,pollution from lakes and rivers of other world directly or indirectly , the sewer and fall out from the world countless cities and all farmlands and all the industry has ever running outlet runs into it dangerous toxic and lethal poison which breed bacteria that eat up our oxygen , ending killing the fishes.The ocean daily receive and never returns them. Instead of running into blue space they are completely interlocked and contribute to the rapidly accumulating pollution among them. In fact, the water most important to man is those most rapidly polluted especially the areas nearest the surface, the coastal and estuarine zone. The bulk of marine life depends on photosynthesis, is concentrated in an upper layer of ocean, in fact more than 90 percent of world fish catch is concentrated in water most vulnerable to human activities- water less than 200 meter deep and continental shelf which represent 10 percent of the ocean. Coastal water equally provide us with recreation besides feeding, the seaside suffer supreme bleak from dirt and toil.

Whatever are human may feel at the majesty and magnificence of his planet seascapes, he/she goes on treating the ocean as a sewer. Many still simply dump directly into the sea with no treatment. Industry contributes heavy metal, inorganic persistent minerals including radioactive waste. Also fertilizer and DDT from agricultural land are washed down to the ocean where following the current and concentration as the go up the marine food chain, the affect animal and increase bacteria growth. The coast also suffers from pollution caused by drilling and transport of oil.

The biggest problem we do know how much pollution is being poured to the ocean, at least in coastal areas we can see, smell a clear present danger, hotelier can estimate their loss as beach close in the wake of hepatitis, but get once get away from the shore from reasonably measurable and observable effect we enter a world of dark as the ocean. The problem we are facing is at a time when 2/3 of humanity has entered industrialization. Other risk is the disposal of ships and oil platform at the end of their life, mining waste, Also of intricate is land contamination through these same wastes, which has shocked the entire ground water path casing wet and brown disgusting land all over.

The military posed the biggest treat, they dump more poison at sea than any other establishment - the act war, the military game itself is pain, all the canisters poison full of mustard gas end up killing the fish, and some enter into our food chain. As nuclear power generation increases most nuclear notion are likely to dump into ocean containers loaded with radioactive. These canisters of poison us toxins disposed will certainly end up swirl across ocean floors, broken and leaking and what next, of course come after us through the food chain – on this a so called rhetoric is that what are we fighting for? The ominously growing national division of man planetary inheritance from tribal squabbles, racism, religious bigotry, which have wasted , ruined,, soaked in blood so such of his territorial patrimony- eventually we will all end it, this fact show that life itself has an end- but we reframe from catalyzing the time for such end. We are lucky to have God like God who dos not get angry and who I have known be the most patient.

Another issue of concern we know very little about process and transport by which ocean detoxifies evaporates or absorbs the massive waste which flow into them. In a nutshell, we must know THERE IS NO ESCAPE IN UNDERLYING UNITY AND INTERCONECTION OF HUMAN OCEANWORLD. Seas and ocean like airs above, mingle with each other, pass on each burdens, cleanse or poison each other, move in steady current and unpredictable tempest weave a seamless watery web. Their rain falls on the just and the unjust, their tide sweeps every human shore. Sovereign government may proclaim their sovereign national control over their own territories. But the airs bring in acid rain, the ocean roles in the toxic substance. Pollution move from continents to continents. So what does this tell us -? Ultimately at the edge of the sea the pretension of sovereignty cease and the fact of passing decade to assert its inescapable reality.

The bottom line is that is the reality of fact there is leverage points for area near the surface in which very soon can become concerted to having last destructive effect.

Is it not time for us to make swift correction on our erroneous conception of an endless ocean invulnerable to the combined refuse of human on earth to avoid risk of mishap in the future from frequent spill, fouled beaches, depletion of estuarine, more dead birds ,fish and marine mammal in the slick of oil and other pollutants.

My million dollar question is that what can we do about this , since there is sovereignty over the ocean .The Fraud in world trade organization, The fraud of colonialization built on lies , fraud of selfishness based on cooked doctrine of trade control , protectionism , hall been issue that are standing as barrier to international control which can only work through corporation and unity and of one world and one people. Because of this the little brother are skeptical that is this new concern on environment sincere? Is this a new fraud process to further create trade control and protectionism? The cost of getting of this is already declared enormous and need good skill. The little brothers who lack finance anyway also fear that is it another fraud to impose insurance cost for antipollution which the big brother have corrupted for a century without thought of the environment .Carrots and stick approach could works , if there is justice and equality behind it .beside interdependent of nations, can those nations generating nuclear waste give it up, why cant they , if all know it is bad the new philosophy is already born , the alternative technology are there , as the say when human know a problem then the road to solution will be clear-how do we change from the wrong path.

I drop my pen here -- I register my apology for this long stuff---please post your response , your opinion , how we can get things to normalcy. Lov ya all

"... [M]an’s fingerprint is found everywhere in the oceans. Chemical contamination and litter can be observed from the poles to the tropics and from beaches to abyssal depths...But conditions in the marine environment vary widely. The open sea is still relatively clean...In contrast to the open ocean, the margins of the sea are affected by man almost everywhere, and encroachment on coastal areas continues worldwide...If unchecked, this trend will lead to global deterioration in the quality and productivity of the marine environment."

The State of the Marine Environment, 1989;

Group of Experts on the Scientific Aspects of Marine Poll

Author: Oladokun Sulaiman

Melting Arctic Sea Ice and Global Warming Hype

There can be no dispute that the ice over the Arctic is melting pretty fast. Satellite pictures clearly show the extent of the decrease in Arctic ice during the last several years. In fact, observations from instruments on the ground, balloons, and satellites indicate that the Arctic is warming much faster than the rest of the planet.

Last year's seasonal ice shrinkage set records, reaching a September minimum of 2.6 million square miles, some 23 percent smaller than the previous record, set in 2005. If it sets another record this year, it would mark the fifth season of record declines since 1998.

In fact, preliminary data in June 2008 from University of Colorado researcher Sheldon Drobot does show that the vast expanse of ice at the top of the world is some 55,800 square miles smaller than it was on the same date last year.

The proponents of man-made global warming now point to the melting Arctic sea ice as proof that the planet is in immediate dire peril. Their climate models show that the Arctic sea ice is melting nearly three times faster than global warming computer models had previously projected.

Of course, melting Arctic Sea ice linked to the warming of the planet seems like an easy public relations correlation to make. Ice melts when temperatures rise. Arctic temperatures are rising fast apparently due to man-made global warming. The faster the ice melts, the faster the impact on the planet. So, everyone needs to spend more money and change behavior to eliminate CO2 gas to save the planet.

It all seems so logical until you think about it for awhile and do some research. Then, it really begins to not make much sense. Ultimately, I find that when things don't make sense then they are usually not true. Here is what bothers me about melting Arctic sea ice caused by man-made global warming from an increase in CO2 gas.

First, no study has ever directly linked the increase in global temperatures of the last several decades with melting Arctic ice. There is no scientific evidence of a direct connection, only media hype. In fact, with the climate projection models predicting only one third of the Arctic ice melt that is actually occurring, then maybe another reason outside of global warming is really at work.

Next, there has been a record melt in Arctic ice each year since 1999. However, the average global temperature has not increased and has actually started to decrease in the last few years while that Arctic ice has been melting at an increased pace. Ice melting faster when the planet's actual average temperature is going lower? Doesn't seem to make much sense, does it?

Now, consider that in 2008 ice between Canada and southwestern Greenland reached its highest level in 15 years according to Denmark's Meteorological Institute. The Institute used satellite images to track the southward expansion of the ice.

In fact, on a global basis, NOAA had this to say about world sea ice in April 2008. “Global sea ice reached levels that were “unprecedented” for the month of April in over 25 years. Levels are the third highest (for April) since the commencement of records in 1979, exceeded only by levels in 1979 and 1982."

So, if global warming is creating melting Arctic ice, then why is ice not melting everywhere? In fact, the world had more global sea ice in April 2008, than it had for over the last twenty five years. Again, if it doesn't seem to make much sense, it probably is not true.

So, the actual reason for melting Arctic ice may well have nothing to do with global warming. There have been several recent studies and discoveries in the Arctic that would suggest as much.

Recently, a team of scientists led by Dr. Robert Sohn of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in Massachusetts got a first-ever glimpse of the ocean floor (13,000 feet) beneath the Arctic pack ice. Indeed, they were astonished with what they saw.

Massive volcanoes had risen from the ocean floor deep under the Arctic ice cap, spewing plumes of fragmented magma into the sea. The eruptions took place in 1999 along the Gakkel Ridge, an underwater mountain chain snaking eleven hundred miles from the northern tip of Greenland to Siberia.

Remember, that the record Arctic sea ice melt began in 1999 the same year as these volcanic eruptions began on the ocean floor. The truth is if you overlay the area of melting Arctic sea ice over the area of these massive volcanic eruptions on the ocean floor, a compelling circumstantial case can be made that volcanic eruptions may indeed be the cause of Arctic ice melt.

Other studies also indicate that global warming may not be the cause of melting Arctic sea ice. Last year, a team led by Son Nghiem of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, in Pasadena, Calif., studied trends in Arctic perennial ice cover by combining data from NASA’s Quick Scatterometer (QuikScat) satellite with a computing model based on observations of sea ice drift.

The conclusion of the NASA team was as follows: "Unusual atmospheric conditions set up wind patterns that compressed the sea ice, loaded it into the Transpolar Drift Stream and then sped its flow out of the Arctic". So, in effect, polar wind patterns changed and blew the sea ice further south to warmer waters leading to the record Arctic ice melt.

The fact is that there is so much that is unknown about how our climate changes over many thousands of years of time. This lack of knowledge makes it very easy for environmental alarmists to use melting Arctic ice and blame it on global warming due to a man-made increase in CO2 gas.

The point is that the cause of all that melting Arctic sea ice may have many different explanations. Indeed, melting Arctic Sea ice may well turn out to be just more misguided man-made global warming hype.

Author: James William Smith