Birdnow's Aviary

July 06, 2021

Rotting Fish

Eric Chapman says:

I used to say, "there's places with rotting fish guts miles deep on the bottom of the ocean so it has to release gas when it rots, right?"

Climate change may be real...but may be just real-LY inevitable be more correct. Man-made climate change will eventually be moot.... except, the earth will balance out once the fish die off...

Oddly, you could argue drilling for oil to prevent spontaneous oil deposit collapse and mass fishing could be best thing for humanity...mayb e to maintain the planet too now?

https://www.sciencealert.com/this-powerful-greenhouse-gas-is-on-the-rise-from-ocean-dead-zones

David Redfern adds:

In the same way that human emissions of atmospheric CO2 are almost undetectable in the atmosphere, the same sleight of hand is used in this article to confound the reader into believing all N2O emissions are human caused.

Absolute nonsense and should be slapped with a 'Fact Check' by FB, but of course it isn't.

Posted by: Timothy Birdnow at 09:39 AM | Comments (4) | Add Comment
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1 This all helps to show that the environment is a complex system, as most of us already know, and that trying to tweak one element of it often has no effect, or even a negative effect, from what was desired.

Posted by: Dana Mathewson at July 06, 2021 09:50 AM (qoFp/)

2 Agreed Dana. And there are people talking about geo-engineering the Earth to stop "climate change". I always point back to the children's song about the old lady who swallowed the fly; in the end swallowing a horse wasn't a good idea.

Posted by: Timothy Birdnow at July 07, 2021 07:08 AM (pzbSR)

3 I remember that song, Tim. It was a great vehicle for "character singers." You could have a lot of fun with it.

As far as "fish guts rotting on the ocean floor," I'm skeptical, because I'm pretty sure those fish guts get eaten by any of a number of organisms before they get to the floor of the ocean. The ocean is a dangerous place.

Posted by: Dana Mathewson at July 07, 2021 04:08 PM (QSsdw)

4 Perhaps so Dana. I know the deep ocean is a hungry place with little food. Even the creatures who live there like to leave it when they can.

Posted by: Timothy Birdnow at July 08, 2021 06:23 AM (AOCI8)

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