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To: RetiredNow who wrote (8912)	6/4/2009 2:43:58 AM
From: Hawkmoon	1 Recommendation Respond to of 86356

we used to have a lot more plankton in the oceans two centuries ago then we do today. Again, this in large part due to pollution and Pollution induced climate changes." To some extent, this might be true. We're seeing nitrate runoffs from rivers into oceans and it's fueling the wrong kind of algal growth that doesn't sequester CO2 to ocean bottoms. But I think, as a primary theory, it's been the past 100 years of extensive soil conservation efforts that has depleted the oceans of the necessary nutrients. We've been so concerned about preventing "dust bowls" that we've forgotten that it was providing the nutrients needed by ocean phytoplankton. But it's only a theory.. However, a pretty good one. Hawk