Great Pacific Garbage Patch Continues to Grow !!!!!!!As large as the US

“Enlarged and discolored livers in the fish, we’re looking at hormone disruption, the kind of things that we see in fish that are impacted by plastics in rivers,” Moore said. “We already know that many fish that are male have been feminized living downstream from places where there are chemical pollutants.”

[link to losangeles.cbslocal.com]


We suck at life

To date, Captain Moore has conducted ocean and coastal sampling for plastic fragments through more than 40,000 miles of the North Pacific Ocean, across 22 degrees of latitude and 70 degrees of longitude. His latest 10,000 mile voyage took him and his crew two-thirds of the way to Japan across the International Dateline. Captain Moore's work has been highlighted in numerous major media outlets, including ABC’s Nightline, Good Morning America, National Public Radio, Rolling Stone, and The Wall Street Journal.

In June 2012, Thompson Rivers University in Kamloops, Canada, bestowed Captain Moore with a well earned Doctor of Laws Honoris Causa. His work has been published in multiple scientific journals and magazines. His first book, Plastic Ocean, was published in October 2011 and is soon to be published in Japanese and Italian.

[link to www.algalita.org]

Queer state proposes to ban plastic bags, like that will do anything. They need to fund ocean going plastic harvesting vessels to clean up this shit at the federal and global level.

Such a proud achievement.

Yep, most of it comes from Asia because they use the ocean as their low cost dump.

there are 500 or more of these.

Male fish, "feminized". And people still wonder why there's so many gays now.

As large as the USA?

Horseshit.

Disturbing. May we reap what we sow.

if it was that fucking enormous it would be visible on gaggle earth.

^This. Another liberal shithead ploy to make white people feel guilty and want to give up there rights and cash to the lower class and upper class but ofcourse people refuse to accept that as a FACT! Same as global warming, same as save the whales, save the planet, save the sharks, save the dog shit, save the oceans, save the volcanoes,save the forests....THE ONLY WAY YOU CAN SAVE THE PLANET IS GIVING THEM YOUR MONEYYYYYYYYYYYY

Last Edited by KickAzCarlin on 08/17/2014 07:20 PM

Why don't they incinerate this stuff for energy??

And if this is true why the HELL hasn't a satellite or the ISS taken a picture of it? Wouldn't you think the clowns in the liberal environMENTAL community would jump on the first chance they get to make you feel like shit about being alive on this planet? You know why there isn't pictures? right because IT DOES NOT EXIST!

Really? I didn't hear anything like that in the video. And do we all understand that this is not like a big island or land mass, rather an massive area in the pacific where the Tides bring all of this debris into that large zone. much of the trash, as described to me by my sister and husband that sail, lingers just on or below the surface, bobbing in the water.

Sadly I do not have an answer for this. Money is not the answer to this, perhaps nothing but Time will answer this.
Yet I am not so naive as to think that every action each of us does in our lives can have either positive or negative consequences.

So sad. This is what bothers me the most… the harm to animals.

An asteroid will take care of this whole mess. It'll have to be a big one, and I believe it's coming.

Careful what you wish for.

I refuse to watch any video about the harm we are doing to the planet because it is ALWAYS the same propaganda and three conclusions by the end of the videos/documentary.

1)Humans are evil and need to basically be wiped from the planet

2)Humans are destroying every living ecosystem on the planet and need to be destroyed

3)Humans need to give all of there money to an environmental organization that will end up giving half of the money away to the corporate shitheads in charge of the organization so they can live in there gigantic mansions that use more energy and resources than 98% of American households.

But yes you go ahead and give them your money, time and energy to "Save the planet" because we all know that is exactly what they are doing.

Yeah .. sure

They could walk on it they says... They never showed a freaking picture of it yet..

I have to agree, its bullshit

thanks for pin sad business along with all the other sadness

Marine Debris

Any kind of trash can get into the ocean—from glass bottles to aluminum cans to medical waste. The vast majority of marine debris, however, is plastic. Scientists have collected up to 750,000 bits of plastic in a single square kilometer (or 1.9 million bits per square mile) of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch.

Plastic products can be very harmful to marine life in the gyre. For instance, loggerhead sea turtles often mistake plastic bags for jellyfish, their favorite food. And many marine mammals and birds, such as albatrosses, have become strangled by the plastic rings used to hold six-packs of soda together.

Marine debris can also disturb marine food webs in the North Pacific Subtropical Gyre. As microplastics and other trash collect on the surface of the ocean, they block sunlight from reaching plankton and algae below. Algae and plankton are the most common autotrophs in the marine food web. Autotrophs are organisms that can produce their own nutrients from oxygen, carbon, and sunlight.

If algae and plankton communities are threatened, the entire food web may change. Animals such as fish and turtles that feed on algae and plankton will have less food. If those animals start to die, there will be less food for predator species such as tuna, sharks, and whales.

[link to education.nationalgeographic.com]

This is just the shit that washed out to sea from all the natural disasters in the past 20 years.

Tsunami's did this.

This is what happens

[link to en.wikipedia.org]

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NOAA did this

[link to www.lib.noaa.gov]

noaa

Still waiting on the picture from space proving the garbage pile is the size of the USA. Do you have one?

Well, I know this is a waste of typing... but gonna do it anyways.

1. there was no mention of asking for any money
2. There was no mention of evil humans
3. I do not give money to environmental groups

May your day be blessed.

This was done in June

Plastic 'Trash Islands' Forming in Ocean Garbage Patch
[link to news.discovery.com]