What Do Those Eggheads Know?

Pollution and global warming are pushing the world's oceans to the brink of a mass extinction of marine life unseen for tens of millions of years, a consortium of scientists warned Monday.

Dying coral reefs, biodiversity ravaged by invasive species, expanding open-water "dead zones," toxic algae blooms, the massive depletion of big fish stocks -- all are accelerating, they said in a report compiled during an April meeting in Oxford of 27 of the world's top ocean experts.

Sponsored by the International Programme on the State of the Ocean (IPSO), the review of recent science found that ocean health has declined further and faster than dire forecasts only a few years ago.

These symptoms, moreover, could be the harbinger of wider disruptions in the interlocking web of biological and chemical interactions that scientists now call the Earth system.

All five mass extinctions of life on the planet, reaching back more than 500 million years, were preceded by many of the same conditions now afflicted the ocean environment, they said.
~ from Oceans in Distress Foreshadow Mass Extinction by Marlowe Hood ~

Oh, those scientific-minded folk are at again, aren't they? All these dire warnings. All those highfalutin studies, data and other important sounding stuff.

We all "know" it's all mumbo-jumbo anyway, right? Our elected leaders and benevolent corporate oligarchs have told us there is nothing at all to worry about. We simply need to be good little consumers and keep buying crap to get the economy back on its feet.

The planet will take care of itself. We certainly aren't to blame for anything. We were created in the image of our loving creator. He gave us dominion over the earth...yadda, yadda, yadda.

Wake up, people!