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Tuesday, November 11, 2014

Dawn Of The Dead Zone: Warming Waters Worsen Oxygen Deprivation

Global warming is likely playing a bigger role than previously thought in dead zones in oceans, lakes and rivers around the world and it's only going to get worse, according to a new study.

Dead zones occur when fertilizer runoff clogs waterways with nutrients, such as nitrogen and phosphorous. That leads to an explosion of microbes that consumes oxygen and leaves the water depleted of oxygen, harming marine life.

Scientists have long known that warmer water increases this problem, but a new study Monday in the journal Global Change Biology by Smithsonian Institution researchers found about two dozen different ways - biologically, chemically and physically - that climate change worsens the oxygen depletion.

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5 comments:

Anonymous said...

Wait. We were just told that the average temperature of the globe has remained steady for the last 18 years.

So, this study is of a "what if" situation?

You are losing credibility with every new "study" that you put out there. I don't believe that any of this change is man made.

Once, there was an Ice Age...

Anonymous said...

"Once, there was an Ice Age..."

Actually, there have been multiple ice ages.

Anonymous said...

fallout from CHEMTRAILS has no effect, right?

Anonymous said...

Stop with the goofy "computer models" scenarios. Either it's observed or it ain't.

Anonymous said...

If they admit it's all a lir they are out of a job. It's CMA.