Increased rainfall in New England over recent years has sent a surge of sediment into the Gulf of Maine, producing a vast, cloudy film across much of the ocean that threatens the microscopic, single-celled plants that form the foundation of the marine food chain, according to a new study.
Researchers at Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences in Maine and the US Geological Survey found significant changes in the Gulf of Maine ecosystem, which they linked to record rains in the past seven years in Maine and the resulting greater volumes of water from local rivers.
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This is by far the most frightening and upsetting article in the paper today. The implications are so horrible to contemplate. I'm not just talking about no more lobster rolls. Get ready to grow your own food and defend your garden with an electrified razor wire fence. And I suspect you'll see a nutritious food for the poor offered soon. It will come in bags and smell like Fido's supper.
Let's put a big tarp over New England. It could be part of Obama's new stimulus program.
Please, please keep the Conservation Law Foundation out of anything involving matters like this. Those shysters want only to influence policy, whether or not such influence benefits the public at large. They also delight in their abilities to get courts to require huge amounts of public revenue, no matter the cost of such expenditures on the public at large. The CLF also has no accountability... to anyone.