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2018-03-23 -Signs, Portents, and the Weather-
Pacific plastic garbage patch bigger than France
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Posted by 3dc 2018-03-23 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11127 views ]  Top

#1 but bacteria are evolving to eat plastic
Posted by lord garth 2018-03-23 00:23||   2018-03-23 00:23|| Front Page Top

#2 So i take it all the garbage they collect in the Pacific they will haul overland and dump in the Atlantic and all the garbage from the Atlantic they will haul overland and dump in the Pacific...
Posted by CrazyFool 2018-03-23 00:28||   2018-03-23 00:28|| Front Page Top

#3 You notice the garbage is floating off San Francisco....just sayin'
Posted by Maggie Elmereper2424 2018-03-23 07:27||   2018-03-23 07:27|| Front Page Top

#4 There are already bacteria that eat plastic.

The supposed pictures of these "trash islands" always turn out to be fakes.
Posted by Rob Crawford 2018-03-23 08:02||   2018-03-23 08:02|| Front Page Top

#5 ...and the whole operation will require further funding from next year.

Someone found a new & exciting racket.
Posted by Raj 2018-03-23 08:04||   2018-03-23 08:04|| Front Page Top

#6 There are already bacteria that eat plastic

Not dissimilar to the bacteria that gobble up oil after a spill. I recall the Deepwater Horizon oil spill off Mississippi some years back. We were told that it would takes DECADES (a LIFETIME, whatever) for the cleanup.

As it was, the little entities 'bloomed and consumed' most of the spill in just a few months.

Like they've been doing for eons, according to plan.

Might have been quicker, but the 'dispersal agents' put down by humans actually slowed their consumption rate.
Posted by Mullah Richard 2018-03-23 08:50||   2018-03-23 08:50|| Front Page Top

#7 Better culture too
Posted by Bright Pebbles 2018-03-23 10:24||   2018-03-23 10:24|| Front Page Top

#8 Great Pacific garbage patch--The process of disintegration means that the plastic particulate in much of the affected region is too small to be seen. In a 2001 study, researchers (including Charles Moore) found concentrations of plastic particles at 334,721 pieces per km2 with a mean mass of 5,114 grams (11.27 lbs) per km2, in the neuston. Assuming each particle of plastic averaged 5 mm × 5 mm × 1 mm, this would amount to only 8 m2 per km2 due to small particulates
*Yawn* Researchers will need funding to discover hidden dangers of plastic soup...
Posted by magpie 2018-03-23 13:30||   2018-03-23 13:30|| Front Page Top

#9 
Posted by Skidmark 2018-03-23 14:09||   2018-03-23 14:09|| Front Page Top

#10 
Posted by Skidmark 2018-03-23 14:10||   2018-03-23 14:10|| Front Page Top

#11 Has anyone actually SEEN this patch from Airplanes that pass over it?

I do not believe anything lefty says
Posted by newc 2018-03-23 14:26||   2018-03-23 14:26|| Front Page Top

#12 The good news is that it smells better than France and has never surrendered.
Posted by airandee 2018-03-23 14:45||   2018-03-23 14:45|| Front Page Top

#13 First they said the garbage patch was huge and showed pictures of garbage floating on the water, only to later retract that saying the garbage is broken down and roughly 3 or 4 pencil sized bits of garbage in a square meter of ocean LINK.

Then researchers had to retract a paper suggesting that the garbage was dangerous to sea life LINK making it seem almost as if it perhaps it isn't actually real.

So now we have environmentalists claiming its bigger than France, bigger than Texas, bigger than Alaska trying to scare folks again while simultaneously going after plastic straws! I can only assume that some prominent lefties have invested in the non-plastic straw industry.
Posted by rjschwarz 2018-03-23 14:48||   2018-03-23 14:48|| Front Page Top

#14 At the same time climate alarmists are saying that data they insisted was accurate only a few years ago is totally untrustworthy now LINK.
Posted by rjschwarz 2018-03-23 14:49||   2018-03-23 14:49|| Front Page Top

#15 Carefully chosen photographs of Manila Bay's rafts of floating plastic garbage chosen for maximum dramatic effect....
Posted by magpie 2018-03-23 14:57||   2018-03-23 14:57|| Front Page Top

#16 #12 You're an evil minded person, airandee. Bravo! Hip, hip, hooray!
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2018-03-23 15:56||   2018-03-23 15:56|| Front Page Top

#17 You're an evil minded person, airandee. Bravo! Hip, hip, hooray! Posted by g(r)omgoru

"Evil minds" congregate here for purposes of survival.
Posted by Besoeker 2018-03-23 16:01||   2018-03-23 16:01|| Front Page Top

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