Politics The Climate-Change “Debate”
“There is no other cause, as far as we can determine” for a growing 1,235-square mile “dead zone” off the Oregon Coast, with oxygen levels so low that fish and crabs suffocate. The dead zone, which is unrelated to recurring oceanic current changes such as El Nino and La Nina, has quadrupled in size since 2002.
Meanwhile, July set an all-time record for US electricity use, breaking the previous record, set last July.
Dead zones are fun stuff. Most of them aren't caused by climate or wind, but by runoff from agriculture or homes. We have one, pretty near, called "Hood Canal", which used to be full of life forms but now largely isn't. Homeowners are believed to be the cause of that one. The one off the Mississippi Delta is bigger than New Jersey, and you contribute to it every time you put a mouthful of food in your mouth, or put ethanol in your car, or use plastic. It's all from fertilizer for corn, all of it, corn, corn, corn.