Carbon dioxide is quite the buzz phrase. Along with methane, CFCs and a host of other noxious gasses, many believe carbon dioxide is causing global warming whilst nations sit on their arses ignoring tomorrow. The threat to the pearl industry is immense.As carbon dioxide dissolves in seawater, the hydrogen ion concentration increases. This decreases the pH, resulting in a nasty consequence known as acidification. Ocean acidification has dire consequences for calcifying organisms whose skeletal material is built of calcium carbonate. These organisms include corals, echinoderms and, of course, molluscs with shells.
"Ocean acidification is one of the biggest threats to our marine environment," said Miyoko Sakashita, a senior attorney at Center for Biological Diversity. This EPA action "really gave the green light to using the Clean Water Act to address ocean acidification," she said.
According to a recently published report in the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, about 40,000 bodies of water are currently listed nationwide as impaired.
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Old news except that maybe now a few stubborn producers actually give a shit only because it is threatening their livelihood and bank account. One would be hard pressed to find a body of unpolluted water in Japan and that didn't seem to worry them too much until recently.
The problem was brought up a year ago on the Pearl Guide forum and not many consumers seemed to give a shit either. Heaven forbid the bringing up of any kind of environmental concern or the mention of unsustainable population growth because that will brand you as a pro-genocide moralizing "green" activist.
BTW professor, you should ditch the pink polyester jacket for something in undyed organic cotton, linen or hemp.
Nice going people. The day will come when there will be more life in your toilet bowel than in the oceans. Not that far off really.
Where is Olga? Only she can do this subject justice.
Last I heard she is still in staying at her Russian Romeo Putin's clandestine bachelor pad in Moscow where he gave a Czar's party for his 58th birthday last month. You can reach her at P's private no. 1-800-IWILLBREAKU. Vlad's off somewhere in Siberia again riding shirtless and monitoring snow leopards so maybe Olga will pick up. Call her soon because she is supposed to meet up with Pootie on Abramovich's $300 million dollar yacht at the end of the month. That thing's got two swimming pools, two helipads, and a submarine. It's even got motion sensors(if this yacht be a rockin' don't come a knockin') and a fucking missile detection system. I guess no woman can resist a guy with a big arsenal.
Where would someone wear a pink jacket to? That couldn't have been a pearl event. Maybe some Paspaley shit but even then.
Wasn't Boris Abramovich plotting the violent overthrow of the Russian government at one time? Is this the same guy? He's been hiding out in the UK and Putin has demanded that he be extradited to Russia. How could they be yachting together? Maybe I ask too many questions. Boris's lawyer is Alexander Goldfarb who was also a close friend of Litvinenko. Gulp.
NO, not Boris, I mean Roman Abramovich who was Boris' business partner. He's the guy with the 40 person private army who all know Olga personally. The yacht is the Pelorus. I just got word that an "anti-paparazzi" photo-shield system was recently installed, so, correction, now it's worth 1.2 billion.
Look professor, I know it is really you asking about Olga but get over it as she has moved on, or more like moved back--to Pootie. How can you compete with a virile ex-KGB Russian superman-president like Vlad? Your new condo in South Beach is nothing.
I love Putin. He does those manly shirtless photo ops because the average over 50 Russian male is a fat vodka guzzling, cigarette smoking good-for-nothing and Putin wants to set a fine example for the country by staying trim and capable. The man exudes testosterone by the buckets! Some people who know him say he can stare down a bear and kill it with his mind-if he wants to. And what does our US president exude? Obama is a pasty faced twig. I don't know how a black man can be pasty faced but Obama just is. Unlike Putin, Obama needs clothes to make him look good. He could use a tatoo of the US flag somewhere.
The prof is from Miami??
I was imagining Obama ala Putin riding around the American wilderness shirtless and on a horse and it made me almost bust a gut laughing. His wife's got bigger biceps than he does.
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Medvedev is President, Putin is Prime Minister
Happy Hanukkha to all the Jewish pearl junkies!
Anonymous said...
Medvedev is President, Putin is Prime Minister
You must know that the reality that Medvedev is President is just an illusion. Medvedev is a puppet and Putin is President. All is well in Russia. At least we know who is really running the show in our country.
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