In a lab experiment, researchers adjusted temperatures in tanks, tainted the killifish's food with traces of methylmercury and watched as the fish stored high concentrations of the metal in their tissue.So they fed the fish mercury and the concentrations went up? This is science?
In a field experiment in nearby salt pools, they observed as killifish in warmer pools ate their natural food and stored metal in even higher concentrations, like some toxic condiment for larger fish that would later prey on them.
I wonder what happens if you feed them mercury in cooler pools?
The observation was part of a study showing how killifish at the bottom of the food chain will probably absorb higher levels of methylmercury in an era of global warming and pass it on to larger predator fish, such as the tuna stacked in shiny little cans in the cupboards of Americans and other people the world over.
If the oceans keep warming the way they are supposed to, and we keep force-feeding the little killifish mercury. I gotta go take a nap.
| What about the climate temperature pause, guys, and the Atlantic multi-decadal oscillation, and warmer waters leading to more thunderstorms transferring heat to radiate into space, and all the other newly discovered factors which are leading some to think that this whole climate thingy is much more complicated and cyclical and, y'know, not conforming to current models and stuff? Honestly, you'd think researchers would read the skeptic sites just to know what kinds of questions will be asked so they could collect data to answer them definitively. |
