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Wednesday, February 02, 2005
Algal Blooms provide 60% of breathable oxygen on Earth.
This is a December 2004 Algal Bloom at the delta of the Mississippi River. It clearly illustrates what happens when ocean water receives nutrients that algae can use. They 'bloom' or reproduce in mass numbers. In the absence of those nurtients they will not propagate that quickly.
The all too familiar pattern of clouds stretching across the picture is a 'heat transfer system' streaming from the equator to the North Polar Cap. The North Polar Cap is the 'ice cube' to Earth. It keeps our ocean temperatures benevolent. We have already melted 3000 year old ice of the Hunt Ice Field. That was recorded two years ago. It has advanced far more in those two years. There are ice terrance collapse in Antarctica. Humans need to make Global Warming 'top priority' to stem the complete collapse of Earth's troposphere.
The Ice Fields and Ice Caps have doubled their melt in the last two years. We are not completely on a slippery slope but we are darn close to it. When Earth systems start to collapse it will be like dominos and happen very quickly. Meantime, the weather will continue to cause deadly droughts, storms and hostile microclimates.