World's oceans in 'shocking' decline [BBC report on panel of experts]

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By Richard Black Environment correspondent, BBC News

Coral and fish Coral reefs are subject to "multiple stressors" that could destroy many within a human generation

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-13796479

The oceans are in a worse state than previously suspected, according to an expert panel of scientists.

In a new report, they warn that ocean life is "at high risk of entering a phase of extinction of marine species unprecedented in human history".

They conclude that issues such as over-fishing, pollution and climate change are acting together in ways that have not previously been recognised.

The impacts, they say, are already affecting humanity.

The panel was convened by the International Programme on the State of the Ocean (IPSO), and brought together experts from different disciplines, including coral reef ecologists, toxicologists, and fisheries scientists.

Its report will be formally released later this week.

"The findings are shocking," said Alex Rogers, IPSO's scientific director and professor of conservation biology at Oxford University. snip...

:puke: :cry: The nations of the world are destroying their own food supply and fouling their own nest. No one is held accountable. :grr:

[RadiationTherapy]

1. Thank god. Please let this all end soon.

My final vengeance and lesson to my enemies and the enemies of nature: No fear.

[ananda]

5. It will end when humans and all large life forms go extinct...

... which is indeed the trend.

[SpiralHawk]

2. "Bring it on." - RepubliCon Kristyun Kabal (R)

"We is supposed to trash the planet and seas, we beeleeves, and make all the CashMoneyBucks we can, because when we are fat, filthy rich and sassy in our diapers, we knows we is Eeelete and Among the cHoSeN weeLECT and will soon be swooped up to paraDICE while tribULAtion will afflicT you smelly American proles who get LEFT BEHIND in the rad stanking MESS we has created for you. Sneer. Smirk."

- RepubliCon KristYun Kabal (R)

[RadiationTherapy]

3. Greed is fear of want.

I know you know this, but I want all conservative lurkers to know that I know their secret:

They are afraid.

Arrogance is the fear of humility.

Religion is the fear of responsibility.

War is fear of the other.

[Ezlivin]

4. We'll restock the oceans, replant the forests, clean the air

as soon as our corporate masters tell us to do so!

Until then there is nothing to worry about.

Go shopping!

[Ilsa]

6. Sixth Mass Extinction Event:

"Life on Earth has gone through five "mass extinction events" caused by events such as asteroid impacts; and it is often said that humanity's combined impact is causing a sixth such event."