Well, not quite or at least not yet. Before Southerly Buster stopped blowing for a while, I posted about the exciting saga of the giant jellyfish, a product of ocean acidification, invading Japanese waters Well, according to Shifting Baselines, a swarm of jellyfish, a dense pack of about 26 square kilometres and 11 metres deep, yesterday attacked a salmon farm in Northern Ireland and ate US$2 million worth of salmon.
Ocean acidification, driven by global warming and chemical pollution, including agricultural runoffs is having serious effects much closer to home than Northern Ireland. So hum the theme from Jaws next time you surf. But think jellies, not jaws.
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Great jumping Jellyfish, Al! Is this a joke or not? Does this mean that packs of the squidgy, wobbly, tentacled fiends will guzzle down innocent swimmers on our esteemed Queensland beaches this Summer? Should we add jellyfish nets to our shark nets? Can the Pacific Solution be used to pack the gelid horde off to detention centres?
A swarm 26 square kilometres across eating a Northern Ireland salmon farm is the kind of detail that makes ocean acidification feel a lot less abstract. Linking it back to the Japanese giant jellyfish story makes the pattern much clearer than any single incident would. Sometimes scale and repetition communicate environmental change better than statistics alone.
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Greetings from a reader who usually writes about the night sky — sea and sky both reveal change remarkably quickly.
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