Turkey covered in SEA SNOT due to global warming just like all them scientists predicted!!!

Remember when all them scientists predicted that Turkey would get covered in sea snot becasue of global warming??? Well successfull prediction by them guys !! COz it happened!!!




For months, Turkish fishermen in the Sea of Marmara have been running into a problem: they can’t catch fish.

That’s because a thick, viscous substance known colloquially as “sea snot” is floating on the water’s surface, clogging up their nets and raising doubts about whether fish found in the inland sea would actually be safe to eat.

Scientists say that the unpleasant-looking mucus isn’t a new phenomenon, but rising water temperatures caused by global warming may be making it worse. Pollution - including agricultural and raw sewage runoff - is also to blame.

As numerous Turkish news outlets have reported, high levels of nitrogen and phosphorus in the Sea of Marmara are leading to an explosion of the phytoplankton populations that discharge “sea snot”. Though the mucus itself isn’t necessarily harmful, it can become a host to toxic micro-organisms and dangerous bacteria such as E. coli. And when it forms a layer that covers the water’s surface, it can set off a harmful chain of events, suffocating fish, causing mass die-offs, which in turn leads to plummeting oxygen levels that choke other forms of marine life.

In April, marine biologists discovered that the mucus could be found blanketing corals on the sea floor nearly 100 feet below the water’s surface, Turkish newspaper Cumhuriyet reported.

The problem has become harder to ignore in recent weeks as Istanbul’s coastline begins to resemble a beige carpet, but fishermen who rely on the sea to make a living have been sounding the alarm for months.

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