"Jelly balls" may slow global warming »
Posted By altnrg 1 year ago in Science & TechnologyVast numbers of marine "jelly balls" now appearing off the Australian east coast could be part of the planet's mechanism for combating global warming. The jellyfish-like animals are known as salps and their main food is phytoplankton (marine algae) which absorbs the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide in the top level of the ocean. This in turn comes from the atmosphere.
Mark Baird of the CSIRO said salps were notoriously difficult for scientists to study in the laboratory and consequently little attention has been paid to their ecological role until recently.
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Mother nature has some beautiful ways of dealing with that. Built in population control -- when they run out of food they start eating each other.
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It works great with humans, too. Just wait and see as the population climbs, the world grows warmer and our food sources are pillaged into nonexistence.
Maybe the 'jelly balls' will quickly evolve and start eating people. They can start with the slow-moving Americans in their bark-o-loungers and move onto the corpulent Germans next..
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