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sedona
Senior Member
Sedona, AZ 86339
149 posts, Oct 2000
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posted 02-08-2001 12:48 AM
  
94% Decline in Aleutian Sea Otter Population
PLEASE READ THIS: IMPORTANT http://www.earthfiles.com/earth208.htm 
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Deborah
Take It To The Limit
Flagstaff, AZ
700 posts, Jul 2000
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posted 02-08-2001 08:43 PM
"We aren't aware of any mammalian decline of either this magnitude or geographic extent. It's really kind of mind boggling, actually."- Tim Tinker, Marine Ecologist, University of California, Santa Cruz
This was a difficult story to read. Of course, there are those who will relegate this and other reports like it to the trashbin they call "Commie/Green/Closet NWO-Supporting Propaganda", but to me, there is something very arresting about this report. When a normally gentle, plankton and crustacean-eating species like the Orca whale is forced out of necessity to begin eating sea otters [mammals] in order to survive, I believe that something is amiss.A companion article - more propaganda, no doubt, but: Arctic 'now adding to global warming'
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_1158000/1158269.stm
and one more:
Lean times in the Antarctic
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_1156000/1156152.stm
Excerpt:
Competition for food is getting tougher for the penguins, albatrosses and seals which live around the Antarctic, a new study by the British Antarctic Survey (BAS) says. The BAS's Keith Reid collected 23 years' worth of data on species in South Georgia which eat krill, a crustacean at the centre of the Antarctic food web. The study, published in the Proceedings of the Royal Society on Wednesday, says the animals did well in the 1980s but found the going tougher as demand for krill began to draw level with supply in the 1990s....
I doubt these investigators are making this stuff up.
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sedona
Senior Member
Sedona, AZ 86339
149 posts, Oct 2000
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posted 02-08-2001 10:02 PM
YES. Politics, governments, and all conspiracy theories aside, the facts remain. There are frightening changes on this planet in nature, at levels which are impacting humans more every day. It's a pity that we are going to have to run out of food, water and air before we happen to notice the disappearance of the web of life that sustained us all. I guess that will be the point at which we are able to stop hurling names at each other and finally realize we are all in a life-threatening situation.
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Deborah
Take It To The Limit
Flagstaff, AZ
700 posts, Jul 2000
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posted 02-09-2001 09:33 AM
Exactly, Diane.Let's leave the politicized, intended to cOnFuSe "buzz phrase", Global Warming out of it and just see what is actually happening:
Melting Arctic Permafrost
May Accelerate Global Warming
http://www.climateark.org/
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sedona
Senior Member
Sedona, AZ 86339
149 posts, Oct 2000
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posted 02-09-2001 01:40 PM
Such an inestimable advantage to The Powers That Be... to encourage humans to fight among themselves over ******meaningless****** words, while they busily engineer their dark replacements for mankind, nature, freedom, creativity, and even life itself. We won't like these ersatz virtual replacements for reality. But it will be too late to argue. They will have replaced meaningless words with a terrible set of earthly facts of their own design.
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defender
TELEVISION IS MIND CONTROL
Level 64
1115 posts, Oct 2000
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posted 02-10-2001 12:18 AM
Is it my imagination, or aren't there also a lot fewer insects than there were a couple of years ago?I have heard about the increased mortality rate of frogs. Now that I think of it (back to that Evergreen Aviation), I remember something from their website about one of their 'humanitarian' missions that involved the eradication of some kind of fly in Africa. Just thinking out loud. Maybe there aren't fewer insects?
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sedona
Senior Member
Sedona, AZ 86339
149 posts, Oct 2000
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posted 02-10-2001 12:51 AM
As the kind of gardener who for many years poured over every last infintesimal aspect of a large garden, I can assure you there is FAR less life of every kind on this particular spot of land now. It used to be the kind of oasis in the desert which attracted all kinds of insect, bird, and animal life. It's still an oasis, but now hardly anybody comes. At the same time, certain types of lifeforms are thriving far too much in this out-of-balance and severely reduced ecosystem. There will be too many crows and too few orioles, too many aphids and too few ladybugs, too many coyotes and too few jackrabbits, and so on and on and on. You get burgeoning populations of a very few types of life. The diversity that generated so much livingness and viable interaction becomes almost a monoculture of sorts: extremely depressing to behold. But of course, I *would* look at it like this- since I'm a full-blown raving "environmentalist". I loved my environment, and everything in it, and I find this dumbed-down sickly version of it endlessly heartbreaking.
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Deborah
Take It To The Limit
Flagstaff, AZ
700 posts, Jul 2000
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posted 02-11-2001 07:13 PM
defender - speaking of insects:
BBC News Online
Friday, 9 February, 2001, 10:08 GMT Go-ahead for GM insect release
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_1150000/1150796.stm
The first release of a genetically modified insect is expected to take place in the United States this summer.
A moth has been engineered to contain a gene from a jellyfish in the first stage of a genetic experiment designed to eradicate the cotton-destroying pest from the wild. A total of 3,600 of the moths will be set free under a cage within a one-hectare (three-acre) cotton field in Arizona....
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defender
TELEVISION IS MIND CONTROL
Level 64
1115 posts, Oct 2000
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posted 02-11-2001 07:35 PM
Deborah,It's so very reassuring to know that the people behind the experiment feel there is "mimimal risk"! (...not!) Maybe there's a petition to stop this too?
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