Pictures (Then vs Now) - The Earth is Dying

[OddTrader]

Nowadays:

Accumulation of microplastics in a beach hopper after 72 hours’ exposure. Louise Tossetto et al, Author provided https://theconversation.com/how-microplastics-make-their-way-up-the-ocean-food-chain-into-fish-69148

How microplastics make their way up the ocean food chain into fish
theconversation.com/how-microplastics-make-their-way-up-the-ocean-food-chain-into-fish-69148 - Cached
30 Nov 2016 ... Up to 236000 tonnes of microplastic enter our oceans each year. ... as wildlife can be harmed by eating the plastic or by toxins attached to it.

Over 280 marine species and 50 species of seabirds have been shown to ingest microplastics. MPCA PHOTOS/FLICKR 9CC BY-NC 2.0) http://www.iflscience.com/health-an...ng-up-to-11000-microplastic-particles-a-year/

Seafood Eaters May Be Ingesting Up To 11,000 Microplastic ...
www.iflscience.com/.../seafood-eaters-may-be-ingesting-up-to-11000-microplastic-particles-a-year/ - Cached
25 Jan 2017 ... The first comprehensive risk assessment of human consumption of microplastic particles through eating seafood has been released, and as you can imagine, the findings aren’t good. It estimates that regular fish and shellfish eaters could be ingesting up to 11,000 microparticles a ...

Waste plastics near Dakar … by 2050 there will be more plastic in the sea than fish. Photograph: AFP/Getty Images https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2017/feb/14/sea-to-plate-plastic-got-into-fish

From sea to plate: how plastic got into our fish | Life and style | The ...
https://www.theguardian.com/.../14/sea-to-plate-plastic-got-into-fish - Cached
14 Feb 2017 ... The question is no longer: are we eating plastic in our seafood? .... had captured under a microscope showing zooplankton eating microplastic.

Zooplankton are shown to have ingested tiny particles of plastic. CREDIT: Archives of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology https://thinkprogress.org/zooplankt...d-thats-bad-news-for-ocean-life-dbe31be8ae2b/

Zooplankton Are Eating Plastic, And That's Bad News For Ocean ...
https://thinkprogress.org/zooplankt...d-thats-bad-news-for-ocean-life-dbe31be8ae2b/ - Cached
14 Jul 2015 ... Previous studies have demonstrated zooplankton eating plastic, but have ... The study focused on microplastics, tiny particles or fibers of plastic ...

Cole, Matthew, et al. “Microplastic ingestion by zooplankton.” Environmental science & technology 47.12 (2013): 6646-6655.http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/es400663f https://plastictides.wordpress.com/2014/07/08/microplastic-ingestion/

Microplastics moving in the food chain.From: Ivar do Sul, J. A., & Costa, M. F. (2014). The present and future of microplastic pollution in the marine environment. Environmental Pollution, 185, 352-364. DOI: 10.1016/j.envpol.2013.10.036

Microplastic Ingestion | Plastic Tides
https://plastictides.wordpress.com/2014/07/.../microplastic-ingestion/ - Cached - Similar
8 Jul 2014 ... However, what if the plastic gets stuck, or you eat enough plastic that it ... This is the basis for theory behind microplastic ingestion in the wild.

Plastic microbeads in personal care products were banned in 2015. (Credit: MPCA Photos/CC BY-NC 2.0) http://storyofstuff.org/blog/microfibers-are-microplastics-1/

Microfibers: Small Plastics, Big Problem - The Story of Stuff Project
storyofstuff.org/blog/microfibers-are-microplastics-1/ - Cached
Microplastics are small plastic pieces less than five millimeters long. ... critters at the base of the food chain were likely eating these microplastics as well.

Scientists have now positively identified microplastics in a considerable percentage of wild zooplankton, showing for the first time this phenomenon is more than a scary theory but rather is undeniably a very serious real-world concern. What this finding tells us is that every animal up the food chain are eating toxic plastics too. Corals, fish, whales, birds, bears, and yes, ultimately humans too.

And then there's also the issue of microplastics in our aquariums ... Sealed

http://www.advancedaquarist.com/blog/whats-eating-microplastics

What's eating microplastics? — Advanced Aquarist | Aquarist ...
www.advancedaquarist.com/.../whats-eating-microplastics - Cached
30 Jun 2015 ... Earlier in the year, researchers confirmed that corals were eating microplastics.. Now new research provides indisputable evidence that ...

 

[OddTrader]

Could plastic debris, coarse, fine and molecules (polymers), affect oceans functions as climate regulator, CO2 sink, albedo, evaporation…? (by Diego Fdez-Sevilla, PhD)
Posted on July 17, 2014

https://diegofdezsevilla.wordpress....limate-regulator-co2-sink-albedo-evaporation/

Acidification

CO2 in the atmosphere has increased from 278 ppm in pre-industrial times to 390 ppm today. During this time, the amount of CO2 dissolved in the ocean has risen by more than 30%, decreasing the pH of the ocean by 0.11 units. As with CO2 and global warming, there is some lag between cause and effect. That means that, even if all carbon emissions stopped today, we are committed to a further drop of up to 0.1 units.

CO2 dissolves in water to form carbonic acid. (It is worth noting that carbonic acid is what eats out limestone caves from our mountains.) In the oceans, carbonic acid releases hydrogen ions (H+), reducing pH, and bicarbonate ions (HCO3-).

 

[Humpy]

IF only the world's leaders would stop wasting such huge amounts of money on weapons and spend it on cleaning up the planet.

 

[OddTrader]

* $1,570,000,000,000: how much the world spent on arms this year
www.telegraph.co.uk/.../1570000000000-much-world-spent-arms-year/ - Cached
12 Dec 2016 ... A new analysis of arms spending from Jane's Defence Budgets report found that outlays on weapons, equipment rose 1pc in 2016, to a global ...

* World Military Spending — Global Issues
www.globalissues.org/article/75/world-military-spending - Cached - Similar
US and world military spending and budgets are very high, almost back to Cold ... that peace isn't just the absence of weapons; it is the result of an approach to ...
‎World Military Spending - ‎Spending for peace vs ... - ‎In Context: US Military ...

Global Priority $U.S. Billions
Cosmetics in the United States 8
Ice cream in Europe 11
Perfumes in Europe and the United States 12
Pet foods in Europe and the United States 17
Business entertainment in Japan 35
Cigarettes in Europe 50
Alcoholic drinks in Europe 105
Narcotics drugs in the world 400
Military spending in the world 780

* Who is spending the most on weapons? | World Economic Forum
https://www.weforum.org/.../the-world-is-spending-more-on-weapons/ - Cached
11 Apr 2016 ... Global military spending has increased in real terms for the first time since the US began withdrawing troops from Iraq and Afghanistan.[/size][/quote]

 

[fordewind]

First the scientists invented plastic, then the same scientist caught plankton on camera eating the same plastic.

Scientists are the worst evil on earth.Should be hanged by the balls for their inventions.

 

[Humpy]

Putin is one of the main drivers of the arms race.

http://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/techa...ts-working-on/ar-AArQTK6?li=BBoPWjQ&ocid=iehp

 

[peilthetraveler]

Lake Oroville, California. July 2010 — August 2016.

https://www.wtfvideo.club/2017/05/0...anges-planet-revealed-incredible-nasa-images/


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So the picture with no water is from 2016, hmm? This is the same place where the whole town was evacuated earlier this year as the dam was in danger of breaking because there was so much water.


https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-new...s-evacuated-amid-dam-spillway-failure-n720051

 

[peilthetraveler]

First the scientists invented plastic, then the same scientist caught plankton on camera eating the same plastic.

Scientists are the worst evil on earth.Should be hanged by the balls for their inventions.

This is more true than you know. Every bad thing that is happening in the world right now, science is party/mostly to blame. There would be no climate change if it weren't for scientists inventing cars and power plants and other harmful things for the environment. There would be no gun deaths in the world if scientists hadn't invented guns and gunpowder.

Scientists make a mess of this planet and then expect us non-scientists to pay for and clean it up.

 

[OddTrader]

So the picture with no water is from 2016, hmm? This is the same place where the whole town was evacuated earlier this year as the dam was in danger of breaking because there was so much water.


https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-new...s-evacuated-amid-dam-spillway-failure-n720051

2014
Houseboats sit in the drought lowered waters of Oroville Lake in 2014. Photo: AP
http://www.smh.com.au/world/lake-or...ears-structure-will-fail-20170213-gubjdr.html

2017
Water courses over the Oroville Dam spillway in an event last month that led to the evacuation of 180,000 people from their homes. Photo: Los Angeles Times

News
Feb 13 2017, 7:08 pm ET
Oroville Dam Spillway Failure: Nearly 190,000 Ordered to Evacuate
http://www.smh.com.au/world/lake-or...ears-structure-will-fail-20170213-gubjdr.html

 

[OddTrader]

2015
Here’s what Oroville Dam, the tallest dam in the United States, looked like in August 2015, during the height of California’s raging five-year drought:
https://www.businessinsider.com.au/...oroville-before-after-photos-2017-2?r=US&IR=T

2017
Here’s what the same dam looks like on Monday, February 13:

Part of the tallest dam in the US is on the verge of collapsing -- and California was completely unprepared
Erin Brodwin
Feb 14, 2017
https://www.businessinsider.com.au/...oroville-before-after-photos-2017-2?r=US&IR=T