Oxygen in the ocean is gradually disappearing

disappearing Oxygen in the water could result in more dead fish, what would happen if one day we could never eat crawfish again? Or see a dolphin or be able to go fishing with your kids? Dead zone

Well until global warming/global climate change cause some kind of tangible damage like blowing up a building. No one is going to do anything about this problem until it's too late. So it goes.

More worried about people eating most of the fish in the ocean.

Saw it on yahoo this morning I think. Well, I dont know what can be done about it really. Hope it doesnt hit alaska, I think our salmon and king crab are from over there...

Well, dolphins wouldn't be dieing because of lack of oxygen, since they come to the surface for their air - but they'd be indirectly affected if all their food sources were dieing.

In any case, I'd be more open minded about doing something about the cause, if the reason weren't simply 'the earth is warming too quickly' when there's been too much evidence pointing that global warming can be exaggerated and used for a political agenda. I'm not completely ignoring the fact global warming could be happening, but I am pointing out that there are people who are corrupt and doing things that aren't true to get an agenda passed.

I just wish there were something said that could be done other than 'we have to stop global warming'

I hope that we can work together and do something about this. It'll be hard to get through since how things are but when push comes to shove things have to happen.

BTW nice picture.

You can start by planting tress on your free time. I did my part and some are bearing fruits already.

Pollution and evolution; hard to stop both.

Oxygen is disappearing?
Can anyone explain this. It's H20, so without an O, it's just hydrogen, and then less water, yes?

So if that's the case, this is an effect of something natural called Global Warming, which unfortunately we have helped accelerate.

I also heard that fish native from Mexico have been appearing in Canada, which is supposed to be colder, while the fish live in warm waters. Global Warming in effect ladies and gentlemen!

Oxygen from the atmosphere is dissolved in turbulent water. As Ice Caps melt, more water goes in than oxygen--reducing the ratio.

Life adapted to live in an ocean with the current temperatures and oxygen content, I'm sure it will adapt to this. Shit goes extinct. Humanity is extremely vain to believe that this entire change is caused by them and them alone.

Im not so worried about oxygen in the ocean. Worst thing is carbondioxide level witch has increased a lot. It is due to humans but also in earths history, similar things have occured. Global warming has happened before so it is not all because of humans. But biggest problem is how to lower humans carbondioxide emissions. Charts show that it will increase many many years and after humans have lowered their carbondioxide emissions it will still rise about 10years and after that will go down.

This. Global Warming is a natural cycle of the Earth. People who buy into all the "Go Green" bullshit are mindless sheep. That Superbowl commercial with the Green Police hit the nail on the head. Its just a political tool like others have mentioned.

~Hmm... is that so?~

Who knows, saying that we're not related at all is foolish, but global warming is really blown up compared to other problems in media since people can see the effects of global warming. Also regarding the fish in the ocean topic it doesn't really matter since bad things doesn't go just go away because someone says it's "natural"

Crawfish are farmed in these "rice patties" like things, they don't come from the ocean.


No, only H2O is water. If the Oxygen molecule is gone, it simply becomes two hydrogen molecules that will probably not keep their bond very long.



Actually the problem is simply circulation. The algea and other micro plant life in the ocean that create oxygen may be concentrated in one area or another (where ever it is easiest for them to survive) so the oxygen they create needs to be circulated via currents or winds. The dead zones only last for a while though - they usually get oxygen back to them in a couple of months. The title of the thread is misleading. The oxygen isn't "disappearing" it simply isn't spreading everwhere and that creates hypoxia - these areas with low oxygen. You will still find life in the areas, just not schools of fishes or thriving ecosystems.

What appals me is that people keep babbling about how Global Warming is or isn't happening. That's not the issue.


That got your attention? Good. Time to be scared now. Time to move on to serious stuff.

Read up on peak oil: that's some serious shit an no one has given me an adequate answer. Frankly: we're gone have less and less oil and it's gona cost more and more...

..and it's in everything. From the petrol in your car, to the tires of your car to the plastic in the cup you hold water, to the very food you eat since it was grown with pesticides made from, tended and harvested by vehicles running on and nurtured with fertilizers derived from oil.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ulxe1ie-vEY

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cwNgNyiXPLk

The oil thing will collapse the world economy. All we can do is prepare for 5-94 years of social bedlam. I'm foreseeing the collapse of the American Government, and other bodies which cover more than an area roughly the size of Alaska. Millions of people will die of starvation (as trade has become more important to modern society than production). Warlords and electricians will become the ruling classes, and everybody else will be serfs.

The faster the oil runs out, the better. It will force technology forward instead of having those butt-faced investors and scientists talking about the problem without doing anything, just holding on to their money. Hopefully the result will also turn out to be a better source of energy from an environmental point of view.