Thursday, November 27, 2014
Hmm. Could it be that
BBC briefly covered a problem.... Some lakes in Britain and Canada are turning to jelly. The explanation is slightly complicated. It's basically a competition between two types of tiny crustacean. One type builds a hard calcium exoskeleton, the other type builds a jelly-like outer shield. During the 20th century acid rain leached lots of calcium from soil, which ran off into lakes. The calcium-skeleton crustacea flourished. Now that we've gotten rid of the "pollution", soil is holding more calcium and the lakes no longer receive enough to sustain the hard-shell critters. So the jelly-making critters now dominate the lakes.
Feed a fact to a journalist and the journalist will always build the same shit-like outer shell, no matter what the fact is. Journalist eats "pollution" and "problem" and shits out POLLUTION CAUSES PROBLEM! WE'RE BURNING! POLLUTION IS INCREASING EXPONENTIALLY! UNPRECEDENTED! DIRTIEST YEAR IN HISTORY! DIRTIEST MONTH IN HISTORY! DIRTIEST DECADE IN HISTORY!
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Were lakes jellified before the "pollution" of acid rain? I don't recall reading anything about jelly-filled lakes in the 1700s. Maybe the "polluted" condition is the natural condi
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Were lakes jellified before the "pollution" of acid rain? I don't recall reading anything about jelly-filled lakes in the 1700s. Maybe the "polluted" condition is the natural condi
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