10 Feb 08
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Originally posted by WajomaHypoxia or oxygen depletion is a phenomenon that occurs in aquatic environments as dissolved oxygen (DO; molecular oxygen dissolved in the water) becomes reduced in concentration to a point detrimental to aquatic organisms living in the system.
Is O2 a dwindling resource?
Straight question requiring a straight answer.
Oxygen depletion could be the result of a number of factors including natural ones, but is of most concern as a consequence of pollution and as an outcome of a process known as eutrophication in which plant nutrients enter a river, lake, or ocean, phytoplankton blooms are encouraged. While phytoplankton, through photosynthesis, will raise DO saturation during daylight hours, the dense population of a bloom reduces DO saturation during the night. When phytoplankton cells die, they sink towards the bottom and are decomposed by bacteria, a process that further reduces DO in the water column. If oxygen depletion progresses to hypoxia, fish kills can occur and invertebrates like worms and clams on the bottom may be killed as well.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypoxia_%28environmental%29
I'm sure there are enough other scholarly sources to support this, but obviously as previously stated, this probably does not occur in wajomaland, so ergo, it does not happen and I must be fantasizing again.
10 Feb 08
Originally posted by WajomaThe problem with the last part is that so many don't recognize personal property rights. He'd stand a good chance of losing that land to oil companies or some other Big Business with the muscle and ruthlessness to fight dirty. The People might even support the takeover..."that oil/iron/whatever under there is a national resource and you have no right to deny it to us!"
Is the O2 being displaced by the CO2? Got some figures on that one?
Just being sill eh, but it typifies your (and others) misplaced alarmism and pessimism. I never said it was all plain sailing just that dwindling resources aren't the problem you make them out to be. As a percentage of area how much of Australia do mining operations use up? They haven' ...[text shortened]... don't worry about the resources - 'we' really haven't made a dint yet.
10 Feb 08
Originally posted by kmax87It seems that the problem is farm runoff into the oceans, lakes and rivers. Fertilizers do that.
Hypoxia or oxygen depletion is a phenomenon that occurs in aquatic environments as dissolved oxygen (DO; molecular oxygen dissolved in the water) becomes reduced in concentration to a point detrimental to aquatic organisms living in the system.
Oxygen depletion could be the result of a number of factors including natural ones, [b]but is of most concern as ...[text shortened]... ably does not occur in wajomaland, so ergo, it does not happen and I must be fantasizing again.
Why do we keep subsidizing farmers? It's so stupid!
10 Feb 08
Originally posted by KellyJayShort term maintenance vs long term unsustainability. Which is more important?
Yea they only feed people, it isn't like they are saving trees or
anything real important. 🙁
Kelly
Patient X " Doctor I like smoking."
Doctor Y " Yes but it will kill you."
Patient X " But that might take 20 years, now is all that matters."
When Patient X also happens to be a large corporate entity or a conglomerated nation of large corporate entities whose behavior(s) affects the rest of the world, then the fact that temporal needs are satisfied by the current methodologies employed by these corporate entities should not in of itself justify the continued practice of those methodologies, if they are proven to be environmentally unsafe/unsound or just plain crazy.
10 Feb 08
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Originally posted by KellyJayNo, we throw a lot of that food away.
Yea they only feed people, it isn't like they are saving trees or
anything real important. 🙁
Kelly
Did you know the farmers in California have been selling the water they get subsidized? They know that we don't need farmers, but they get so many government handouts...so they're trying to use their subsidies to move into the free market. Not to grow food.
Don't you claim to be a conservative? You're not; you're an evangelical...a recent ally of the conservatives, but not one yourself.
10 Feb 08
Originally posted by AThousandYoungNo denying we could manage our money better, but there are those in
No, we throw a lot of that food away.
Did you know the farmers in California have been selling the water they get subsidized? They know that we don't need farmers, but they get so many government handouts...so they're trying to use their subsidies to move into the free market. Not to grow food.
Don't you claim to be a conservative? You're not; you're an evangelical...a recent ally of the conservatives, but not one yourself.
power that stay in power due to the fact we do not manage our money
better. They get away with a lot and keep the masses in an us vs
them mode most of the time.
Kelly
10 Feb 08
Originally posted by AThousandYoungThat is why we should support strong property rights.
The problem with the last part is that so many don't recognize personal property rights. He'd stand a good chance of losing that land to oil companies or some other Big Business with the muscle and ruthlessness to fight dirty. The People might even support the takeover..."that oil/iron/whatever under there is a national resource and you have no right to deny it to us!"
10 Feb 08
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Originally posted by kmax87Haha , you're digging yourself a bigger hole kmax, I can imagine your keyboard smoking as you googled, googled, googled, "O2 running out" (damn that didn't work) "O2 vanishing" - "O2, the dire story" - "O2, we're up do do creek" - "O2 we're doomed" - "O2 aieee, aieee". So desperate to wallow in the doom.
Hypoxia or oxygen depletion is a phenomenon that occurs in aquatic environments as dissolved oxygen (DO; molecular oxygen dissolved in the water) becomes reduced in concentration to a point detrimental to aquatic organisms living in the system.
Oxygen depletion could be the result of a number of factors including natural ones, [b]but is of most concern as ably does not occur in wajomaland, so ergo, it does not happen and I must be fantasizing again.
For the billionth time, don't exaggerate, smoking does not kill it increases the chance of smoking relate illness, iot was a lame analogy anyway, what, you're pretending to be the planets doctor?. Are we running out of tobacco now?
11 Feb 08
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Originally posted by WajomaSo now that we know the search terms you used to find a counter argument or more typically try and attack the source when the message could no longer be ignored. You could have just googled Oxygen. I mean how hard was that?
Haha , you're digging yourself a bigger hole kmax, I can imagine your keyboard smoking as you googled, googled, googled, "O2 running out" (damn that didn't work) "O2 vanishing" - "O2, the dire story" - "O2, we're up do do creek" - "O2 we're doomed" - "O2 aieee, aieee". So desperate to wallow in the doom.