Thursday, May 31, 2007

If you thought drought was bad before Human Induced Global Warming, then you ain't seen nothin' yet.



This is a Cyanobacteria (Blue-Green Algae) Bloom in the Baltic Sea. Below is the reference that speaks to the issues Florida NOW faces from drought due to Human Induced Global Warming. There is no reason for any other country to carry more responsiblity for this plight other than the USA. Russia is a member of Kyoto. China has already stated it is taking steps to 'prevent' their economy from causing additional problems to the tropospheric biotic nature of Earth. It is the USA that stands on the sidelines and does nothing.

Burgess, Carla. 2001. A Wave of Momentum for Toxic Algae Study, Environmental Health Perspectives, Vol. 109, No. 4 (Apr., 2001), pp. A160-A161. (click here for link)

...Florida's situation illustrates the need for more and better information on the human health effects of cyanobacteria. Florida surface waters are significantly contaminated by toxin-producing cyanobacteria. Of 167 samples taken from Florida waters in a 1999 study, 88 samples representing 75 individual bodies of water contained significant levels of toxic cyanobacterial species, says John Burns, Jr., an environmental scientist for the St. Johns River Water Management District in Palatka, Florida. Seventy-eight percent of samples with measurable levels of microcystins and cylindrospermopsin were lethal when injected into mice, and 80% of the microcystin-laden samples showed potential tumor-producing properties....

At issue is the fact the USA stopped advancing the need for Phycologists and there are currently about six in the USA that still can identify these species to delineate whether they are toxic and how toxic they actually are. The priorities of the USA has moved away from taking care of it's people so much as exploiting them for wealth. The infrastructure of the USA needs to be rebuilt including it's brain trust, especially in the face of Human Induced Global Warming.