NASA | Phytoplankton Levels Dropping

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New research led by NASA researchers has found populations of the microscopic marine plants, phytoplankton, have decreased in the Northern Hemisphere. An analysis using a NASA model in combination with ocean satellite data between 1998 and 2012, showed a 1% decrease of phytoplankton per year.

Research: Decadal Trends in Global Pelagic Ocean Chlorophyll: A New Assessment Combining Multiple Satellites, In Situ Data and Models, Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

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Unprecedented use of Oxygen @ the rate of 94 million barrels of crude oil/day. Deforestation and declining phytoplankton. Um... climate change should be looked into as an oxygen issue because that is what we breathe.

siamak
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Keep going folks! Let's be humans together, and tend to the wounds we've created once it's too late. Keep going, we're not there yet, we still need more destroyed in this planet.

wimbletone
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Soooo. What role is / has Fukushima played earthwide in the loss or deformation of planet wide ecosystems? Are those making a show in your satellite data? Does this have any bearing on the escalating changes of our weather? Ocean flora and fauna degradation are the canary in the mine.

loboalamo
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Cool, but what did you do to insure the accuracy of your model? A model is only as good, or bad, as its parameters, and can be made to say anything in support of whatever political persuasion is in power.

mallardhead