Hypoxia and Medicine

Is the "Dead Zone" in the Gulf of Mexico made worse by AGW,or is it a "hoax" or a "natural occurrence"? There is a "Dead Zone" off the Wash. / Ore. coast also. http://www.kristy/global/story.asp?s=8718376

Now that I have set a friendly tone for today's question, who really cares if the Gulf Coast is turned into? an Industrial Sacrifice Zone? Before the BP Spill, brought to us by Drill Baby Drill, 7000 square miles of the Gulf of Mexico is a Dead Zone, depleted of oxygen where nothing can live. This is caused by fertilizer runoff from the MidWest, hog farms ect. The size of the Dead Zone increases each year and it will be only a matter of time until the Gulf of Mexico can no longer sustain life. Spill Baby Spill

What will happen to the Gulf Coast during hurricane season? It's common knowledge now that British Petroleum is responsible for the worst oil spill in history. It's my understanding an estimated 60 million barrels worth of oil are leaking every day. That's more than the amount consumed on the roads here in America. The crude oil is washing up along the shores of Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, and Louisiana. They're even running out of oil booms because the spill is so big. Not to mention, the Coast Guard has its hands full, and the amount of oil they've burned off in the Gulf is infinitesimal compared to that which is still leaking. Now, hurricane season is right around the corner. What will happen when those coastal areas get hammered by hurricanes and tropical storms and flooded with oil from the gulf? I can promise anyone reading this that will make Katrina look like a picnic. Better yet, what will they do about the enormous red algal blooms that kill every living organism in sight because of the pollution in the Gulf. That's been a big problem now because of the area known as "The Dead Zone" from all the pollution. The coral reefs there are dropping like flies. What will happen to the Gulf Coast this coming hurricane season when there are massive quantities of crude oil there?

How many square miles of ecological 'dead zones' exist in estuaries currently? prior to BP oil spill] 2009 The Gulf of Mexico had a 'Dead Zone' the size of Mass. : Estuary: //ecopath.org/LifeInTheChesapeakeBay/‏ prior to BP oil spill] 2009 The Gulf of Mexico had a 'Dead Zone' the size of Massachussets : Estuary: //ecopath.org/LifeInTheChesapeakeBay/ Frontline: Poisoned Waters (2009) NR Turning a critical eye toward the growing problem of water pollution, this sobering installment of "Frontline" examines the conditions that lead to water contamination and the danger it poses to human health. The program exposes the worsening conditions of Puget Sound on the West Coast and Chesapeake Bay's elimination of the fishing industry over the last 25 years on the East Coast, pointing to the threat of continued runoff from development, agriculture and industry and the impact on the fishing industry in the United States. Genre:Science and Nature Documentaries, TV Documentaries, PBS Documentaries Format:DVD and streaming http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Estuaries External links Animated documentary on Chesapeake Bay NOAA. "Habitats: Estuaries - Characteristics". www.onr.navy.mil. Retrieved 2009-11-17. Estuary From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Redirected from Estuaries) For other uses, see Estuary (disambiguation). Estuary of Klamath River An estuary is a partly enclosed coastal body of water with one or more rivers or streams flowing into it, and with a free connection to the open sea.[1] Estuaries form a transition zone between river environments and ocean environments and are subject to both marine influences, such as tides, waves, and the influx of saline water; and riverine influences, such as flows of fresh water and sediment. The inflow of both seawater and freshwater provide high levels of nutrients in both the water column and sediment, making estuaries among the most productive natural habitats in the world [2] Most modern-day estuaries were formed during the Holocene epoch by the flooding of river-eroded or glacially-scoured valleys when sea level began to rise about 10,000-12,000 years ago.[3] Estuaries are typically classified by their geomorphological features or by water circulation patterns and can be referred to by many different names, such as bays, harbors, lagoons, inlets, or sounds, although sometimes these water bodies do not necessarily meet the above criteria of an estuary and may be fully saline. Estuaries are amongst the most heavily populated areas throughout the world, with about 60% of the world’s population living along estuaries and the coast. As a result, estuaries are suffering degradation by many factors, including sedimentation from soil erosion from deforestation; overgrazing and other poor farming practices; overfishing; drainage and filling of wetlands; eutrophication due to excessive nutrients from sewage and animal wastes; pollutants including heavy metals, PCBs, radionuclides and hydrocarbons from sewage inputs; and diking or damming for flood control or water diversion.[3]

Are Meat-Eaters Selfish? Are Their Arguments Deceitful? How Do They Justify Their Existence? A family of four could eat for a month on the grain it takes to grow one pound of beef. A beef cattle uses 2500 gallons of water to mature. Grazing cattle cause the extinction of hundreds of species of birds. Rain forests are being destroyed for grazing cattle. Meat-eaters seem to be concerned that beef cattle will become extinct, but have no concern about the hundreds of other species meat animals drive to extinction. Raising meat animals, and farming fish and shell fish, creates huge amounts of waste which winds up polluting our land, and water. It pollutes the ground water as well as the rivers and coasts. It has caused "dead zones" in our gulf and other places. Birds and insects are essential to our human existence, but meat-eaters ignore this and insist that all 300 million of them have the right to eat animals every day, even if it causes great extinctions. Do the math. How many animals to feed 300 million people? Is the contemporary meat-eating habit justifiable? --

Did Obama recieve his "Katrina" in the Gulf Oil Spill? Political Talking Points: Several weeks ago, your humble correspondent asked if the BP oil platform explosion and ensuing spill was President Obama's "Katrina"? A fair question. After all, if it was president Bush, the Lame Stream Lefty Media would be howling for "W"'s hide for his lack of interest in the plight of the oil workers and Gulf Coast residents! In the meantime, Sen. Mary Landrieu (D, La.) has stated that president Obama will pay a heavy political price for his "lack of visibility" during the spill. (Imagine a dem saying that about their messiah?!) See Link: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0510/37878.html I disagree with the Senator only in that it's a matter of a LACK OF LEADERSHIP! Visibility is a photo-op,....actually doing something...ANYTHING! is called leadership, and the American people could expect better leadership from a boyscout trying to earn a merit badge! Obama has shown us NONE! ZIP! NOT EVEN AN IOTA OF LEADERSHIP other than to say, through his minions, that they have "their boot on BP's throat"!!!!! WTF? That's not leadership, tthat'sa thug from Chicago sending a dead fish to his rival! Kapish? But that's my take. WHAT SAY YOU AMERICA? Please opine with pithy comments from anywhere, even the oil soaked shore of James Carvel's back yard, anytimeanytime if so inclined. And when answering, please No Lib Bloviating allowed in the No Spin Zone!

Are Meat-Eaters Selfish? Are There Arguments Deceitful? Make your own decision after viewing some facts: A family of four could eat for a month on the grain it takes to grow one pound of beef. A beef cattle uses 2500 gallons of water to mature. Grazing cattle cause the extinction of hundreds of species of birds. Rain forests are being destroyed for grazing cattle. Meat-eaters seem to be concerned that beef cattle will become extinct, but have no concern about the hundreds of other species meat animals drive to extinction. Raising meat animals, and farming fish and shell fish, creates huge amounts of waste which winds up polluting our land, and water. It pollutes the ground water as well as the rivers and coasts. It has caused "dead zones" in our gulf and other places. Birds and insects are essential to our human existence, but meat-eaters ignore this and insist that all 300 millions of them have the right to eat animals every day, even if it causes great extinctions. Do the math. How many animals to feed 300 million people?

Are Meat-Eaters Selfish? Are Their Arguments Deceitful? Make your own decision after viewing some facts: A family of four could eat for a month on the grain it takes to grow one pound of beef. A beef cattle uses 2500 gallons of water to mature. Grazing cattle cause the extinction of hundreds of species of birds. Rain forests are being destroyed for grazing cattle. Meat-eaters seem to be concerned that beef cattle will become extinct, but have no concern about the hundreds of other species meat animals drive to extinction. Raising meat animals, and farming fish and shell fish, creates huge amounts of waste which winds up polluting our land, and water. It pollutes the ground water as well as the rivers and coasts. It has caused dead zones in our gulf and other places. Birds and insects are essential to our human existence, but meat-eaters ignore this and insist that all 300 millions of them have the right to eat animals every day, even if it causes great extinctions. Do the math. How many animals to feed 300 million people?

Help with Marine Science!!? You’re a journalist for your local newspaper and have been chosen to write about the abundance of nutrients in an area. Select 1 of the areas below and do independent research using sites that will help you better understand the concept. Write a newspaper article about the how too many nutrients cause a dead zone: Santa Monica Bay The Hudson River Florida Keys Gulf of Mexico Coast of Cape Perpetua, Oregon This is also a global issue so you are not limited to the United States. Take a look at: Baltic Sea Yangtze River Adriatic Sea Gulf of Thailand The article must include the following: •Define what a dead zone is and identify the location you choose.; •Identify the types of nutrients. •How do the nutrients enter the environment? When does this occur? •How the nutrients affect the environment ◦How do the decomposing bacteria cause the “dead zone” problem? ◦What is the effect of the decomposing bacteria on marine life? Why does the marine life wither, die, or leaves? •Possible solutions

Would you be shocked if media was wrong about global warming? Two articles below state to different thoughts..? ARTICLE: http://news.yahoo.com/s/mcclatchy/20090609/sc_mcclatchy/3249010 Scientists: Global warming has already changed oceans WASHINGTON — In Washington state , oysters in some areas haven't reproduced for four years, and preliminary evidence suggests that the increasing acidity of the ocean could be the cause. In the Gulf of Mexico , falling oxygen levels in the water have forced shrimp to migrate elsewhere. Though two marine-derived drugs, one for treating cancer and the other for pain control, are on the market and 25 others are under development, the fungus growing on seaweed, bacteria in deep sea mud and sea fans that could produce life-saving medicines are under assault from changing the ocean conditions. Researchers, scientists and Jacques Cousteau's granddaughter painted a bleak picture Tuesday of the future of oceans and the "blue economy" of the nation's coastal states. The hearing before the oceans subcommittee of the Senate Commerce Committee was expected to focus on how the degradation of the oceans was affecting marine businesses and coastal communities. Instead, much of the testimony focused on how the waters that cover 70 percent of the planet are already changing because of global warming. Ocean acidification or diseases that thrive in acidified, oxygen-depleted seawater could be responsible for oysters not reproducing in Washington state , said Brad Warren , who oversees the ocean health and acidification program of the Sustainable Fisheries Partnership in Seattle . A federal study found that two-thirds of larval blue crabs died when exposed to acidity levels like those currently measured off the West Coast , he said. Federal studies also found acidity levels in the North Pacific and off Alaska are unusually high compared to other ocean regions. The high acidity is already taking a toll of such tiny species as pteropods, which are an important food for salmon and other fish. As greenhouse gas emissions increase, billions of tons of carbon dioxide from smokestacks and vehicle tailpipes are absorbed by the oceans. The result is carbonic acid, which dilutes the "rich soup" of calcium carbonate in the seawater that many species, especially on the low end of the food chain, thrive in, Warren said. "If we lose it, it is gone forever," Warren said of the oceans' delicate chemical balance. In the Gulf of Mexico , Alexandra Cousteau said, the runoff down the Mississippi River from farms in the Midwest has created a dead zone the size of New Jersey where few species can survive. Wetlands in Louisiana are disappearing at the rate of 33 football fields a day as hurricanes grow in strength and frequency because of climate change, she said. "We must start to realize that there can be no standalone policies, especially as they relate to our water resources," Cousteau said. "Energy, transportation, climate change, infrastructure, agriculture, urban development: this is where our ocean policy must begin. It is all interconnected." Others testified that the economic toll eventually could be enormous for fishing and other ocean-related industries and for the nation's coastal communities. Taken together, the ocean and coastal economies, including the Great Lakes , provide more than 50 million jobs and make up nearly 60 percent of the nation's economy. "Significant environmental changes, such as sea level and sea temperature rise, oxygen depletion and ocean acidification, will dramatically change the landscape, restructuring an array of natural and physical assets as well as cultural and economic," said Judith Kidlow of the National Ocean Economics Program. "Over the next 30 years, the nation will see the most significant changes in the ocean and coastal economies since the arrival of industrialization and urbanization." The subcommittee's chairman, Sen. Maria Cantwell , D- Wash. , suggested a doubling of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration budget, which is now about $4 billion , and giving the agency additional responsibilities. Cantwell, however, said the key has to be passing comprehensive climate change legislation to reduce carbon emissions. "Protecting our oceans is an environmental and economic imperative," Cantwell said VERSUS ARTICLE : http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/environment/globalwarming/4029837/Global-warming-Reasons-why-it-might-not-actually-exist.html Global warming: Reasons why it might not actually exist 2008 was the year man-made global warming was disproved, according to the Telegraph's Christopher Booker. Sceptics have long argued that there are other explanations for climate change other than man-made CO2 and here we look at some of the arguments put forward by those who believe that global warming is all a hoax. Some icebergs are melting -but not necessarily because of mankind's actions Temperatures are falling, not rising As Christopher Booker says in his review of 2008, temperatures have been dropping in a wholly unpredicted way ove

Should we leave FL? This oil is going to ruin our lives!? I live in central FL, but visit family and friends often on the west coast (an hour south of Tampa). I realize that the "oil" itself isn't on the beaches there yet, but I am hearing reports of oil in the rain in Tampa and Winterhaven. I have been researching things on the internet and the implications of what could happen are ASTOUNDING! There is methane bubbling up on the beaches of Pensacola. There are scientists finding methane at up to a million times the normal amount around Louisiana..... which has the potential to create dead zones, where NOTHING can live. Umm, we can't breath methane. Where this rig was sitting, is on top of a 2 mile long methane bubble. One of their plans is to 'nuke" the leak to close it.....they mess that up and BOOM!! That would create a tsunami, covering all of FL! (I realize that is a worst case scenario, but still is a probability). It could possibly burst on it's own, but we are still drowning. The dispersants they put in the water to keep the oil on the sea floor is 1) killing tons of animals and 2) breaking down the oil, which then the particles get into the air, and now we have "oil" in our rain....which then kills more animals and plant life inland. AND we are breathing this, getting on our skin..etc. THEN If there is a hurricane, it will basically spatter that oil all of over the place. If that gets into the aquafor, where we get our water, we now don't have drinking water. I have a 20 month old son and am deeply saddened that he may not ever get to remember playing on the beach, the fun days of the board walks, the animal life (did you know 80% of the dolphins live IN the gulf?) My husband is on a "rampage", so to speak, to get out as soon as possible. As soon as he has $5000 saved, we are out (my parents live in Iowa and Wisconsin, so we do have somewhere to go). We both think that as this drones on and on, as it has been, without getting fixed, we are going to watch things die around us and start to get sick ourselves. Not to mention the other info that there is impending martial law (now this is just speculation). I am not going to into this.....it has to do with massive evacuations. This has gotten longer than I had intended and I realize that some of this is just info, not a hard fact....but what they are telling us on the news is NOT what is really going on. We are left to our own devices for survival. I am looking for what other people think....my family thinks I am crazy to leave sunny, gorgeous FL. I honestly don't think it's going to be that pretty soon! Anyone else planning to leave? Funny, when I saw about BP giving FL money for advertisement, I thought WHAT?! OK, you are going to spend a billion (don't really know what the amount is) on advertisement to get people to come here.....CLEAN THIS UP!! Spend that money on keeping people healthy and not killing already almost extinct wildlife!! WTF?! Ichiban-I completely agree with you. There is nothing I can do about this on a national or international level. I lead my existence for my child, to protect him. I don't "vote", I don't participate, I don't listen to what they have to say. It's not truth, it's not acceptable. To tell me that "I" make you sick is quite appalling. Also, I am not yelling at anyone or pointing fingers. It does no good. It is up to me to deal with whatever they do, to keep my family safe. Impending martial law, another civil war, new world order, whatever else we don't know about. I just did a search and am sickened. I am sad for the way that this country has handled that...and other impacting disasters. It is also angering that we, as a group, are forced to live this way and that these things that are happening don't need to happen. Big business, big money, little people....disgusting. Agreed....I honestly don't think it does any good. You are up against HUGE corporations and you are expendable. Think of this. The US only has 13 slaughter houses for how many million people? The farmers (both for cattle/chicken and vegetables) are under contract. If they use their own "heirloom" seeds (that are not chemically altered), they are put on a black list, contract taken, farming existence depleted. Cattle/chicken farmers are forced to give hormones and antibiotics that harm the animal and is essentially put into your own body. Again, sickening on a huge level. Good idea. I am not saying that there will be a civil war over the oil spill. I am just saying that it is up to me to protect my family from whatever there is. Good idea. I am not saying that there will be a civil war over the oil spill. I am just saying that it is up to me to protect my family from whatever there is. Royal surge: I understand that it isn't raining "oil", that is almost an impossibility....as oil doesn't really evaporate. As I said it is what the dispersants did to the oil that evaporates and why I put it in "_", as I don't really know what to call it. I don't care about the economy of the state, I care about the well being of my family. I don't want this is my lungs, on my skin, in my water, etc. I do also realize that "we" put so much junk into the air, water, soil from daily living (as well as things like drilling), but this is on a massive scale. When they closed Pensacola beach, "cleaned it", the reopened it, 400 people ended up at the hospital. I am asking what poeples opinions are because it is freaking me out, but also because my husband is REALLY serious about leaving, and I think it is a bit too soon to really know what is going on. The other hand of this is that we leave, everything is fine, we come back and move on......and if not, we are not sick and have a new life!

Is the "Dead Zone" in the Gulf of Mexico made worse by AGW,or is it a "hoax" or a "natural occurrence"? There is a "Dead Zone" off the Wash. / Ore. coast also. http://www.kristy/global/story.asp?s=8718376 steve p The link will inform you as to what "dead" means. http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory?id=5431140 There's a link. Now what? wormy, If it's the levees on the river,why is there a dead zone off the Wa/Or. coasts as well? http://www.foxnews.com/wires/2006Aug11/0,4670,PacificDeadZone,00.html

Are Meat-Eaters Selfish? Are Their Arguments Deceitful? Make your own decision after viewing some facts: A family of four could eat for a month on the grain it takes to grow one pound of beef. A beef cattle uses 2500 gallons of water to mature. Grazing cattle cause the extinction of hundreds of species of birds. Rain forests are being destroyed for grazing cattle. Meat-eaters seem to be concerned that beef cattle will become extinct, but have no concern about the hundreds of other species meat animals drive to extinction. Raising meat animals, and farming fish and shell fish, creates huge amounts of waste which winds up polluting our land, and water. It pollutes the ground water as well as the rivers and coasts. It has caused "dead zones" in our gulf and other places. Birds and insects are essential to our human existence, but meat-eaters ignore this and insist that all 300 millions of them have the right to eat animals every day, even if it causes great extinctions. Do the math. How many animals to feed 300 million people?