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To: RetiredNow who wrote (259812)	11/13/2005 6:20:36 PM
From: tejek	Respond to of 1572501

Mr. US, the good.......whose commercial fishers along with those from a few other countries is helping to deplete the oceans of their fish. And whose pollution is contributing mightily to global warming. If you spent less time bragging about our positives, and defending our negatives, and instead being more critical of what we are doing wrong, we/the world might not be in the mess it is in. ***************************************************** Fish numbers plummet in warming Pacific** Disappearance of plankton causes unprecedented collapse in sea and bird life off western US coast By Geoffrey Lean in San Francisco Published: 13 November 2005 A catastrophic collapse in sea and bird life numbers along America's Northwest Pacific seaboard is raising fears that global warming is beginning to irreparably damage the health of the oceans. Scientists say a dramatic rise in the ocean temperature led to unprecedented deaths of birds and fish this summer all along the coast from central California to British Columbia in Canada. The population of seabirds, such as cormorants, auklets and murres, and fish, including salmon and rockfish, fell to record lows. This ecological meltdown mirrors a similar development taking place thousands of miles away in the North Sea, which The Independent on Sunday first reported two years ago. Also caused by warming of the water, the increase in temperatures there has driven the plankton that form the base of the marine food chain hundreds of miles north, triggering a collapse in the number of sand eels on which many birds and large fish feed and causing a rapid decline in puffins, razorbills, kittiwakes and other birds. The collapses in the Pacific are also down to the disappearance of plankton, though the immediate cause for this is different. Normally, winds blow south along the coast in spring and summer, pushing warmer surface waters away from the shore and allowing colder water that is rich in nutrients to well up from the sea bottom, feeding the microscopic plants called phytoplankton. These are eaten by zooplankton, tiny animals that in turn feed fish, seabirds and marine mammals. But this year the winds were extraordinarily weak and the cold water did not well up in spring as usual. Water temperatures soared to 7C above normal, which delighted bathers but caused the whole delicate system to collapse. The amount of phytoplankton crashed to a quarter of its usual level. "In 50 years this has never happened," said Bill Peterson, an oceanographer with the US government's National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, NOAA, in Newport, Oregon. Record numbers of dead seabirds soon washed up on beaches along the coast. There were up to 80 times more dead Brandt's cormorants, a fishing bird, than in previous years. Tests showed the birds died of starvation. "They are not finding enough food, and so they use up the energy stored in their muscles, liver and body fat," said Hannah Nevins, who investigated similar mass deaths in Monterey Bay. Many fear the ecological collapse is a portent of things to come, as the world heats up. A Canadian Government report noted that ocean temperatures off British Colombia reached record levels last year as well, blaming "general warming of global lands and oceans". And Professor Ronald Neilson, of Oregon State University, added: "The oceans are generally warming up and there are all sorts of signs that something strange is afoot." news.independent.co.uk

To: RetiredNow who wrote (259812)	11/14/2005 1:33:59 AM
From: tejek	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1572501

Ha! That is true. Muslims probably hate Jews just because they are different. I guess that makes them just as racist as the whites were against the blacks in this country. Doesn't make it right, though. I was telling Z I was watching this documentary on the Holocaust. During the film, I realized how so many have figured out how unacceptable anti-Semitism is; that having a different religion does not justify slaughtering innocent people. What I don't understand is why this tolerance is so selective. Muslims are in the same way different from us as were the Jews. Muslims have the added burden of having a radical element that is more extreme than the radical elements of Judaism.......don't forget that it was ten years ago when a radical Jew assassinated Rabin. Yet, the majority of Muslims are peaceloving, law-abiding citizens of the world. Back when anti Semitism was at its peak, so many horrific lies were said about the Jews.........that they had horns; that they ate their young; that they wanted to take over and destroy Christianity. And now that same intolerance.....that same sick imagination is being applied to Muslims. Its so easy to show tolerance to a group who paid for humanity's intolerance with the death of 6 million lives. Why does it take a holocaust to show us that intolerance is bad no matter where its applied? Why does it take mass killing before we will realize that we all are of the same race; that we all are human? Do six million Muslims have to die before you will distinguish between good and bad Muslims? ted