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Giant Ocean Vortex Discovered
Darkman, Walkin Dude writes "Dubbed a "death trap" by a team of scientists from The University of Western Australia Murdoch University, CSIRO and three American, French and Spanish research institutions, a 200km in diameter and 1000m deep ocean vortex has been discovered off the Rottnest Canyon. Visible from space, scientists claim is has the potential to affect the local climate and the climate further abroad, the vortex is acting as a "death trap" by sucking in fish larvae from closer to the shore."
How can they say something like 'visible from space', and not show the image.
Why not tell us where this really is in the summary (like close to Australia)?
Where are the pictures!?
I have a better idea - let's blame climate cycles that take eons between extremes instead of man-induced global warming that's spiked like a punks hairdoo in 100 years and is only going in one direction. That'll show those darn know-it-all PhDs.
Fabulous troll, kimvette.
Nobody seems to be suggesting that anthropogenic climate change has led to this, despite your false statement above. Of course, it is known that anthropogenic climate change is affecting ocean currents around Europe already, but don't let that get in the way of your rand-induced libertarian/republican head-in-the-sand attitude.
Now, if you really want to know why your statement about "extreme climate cycles over eons" doesn't explain the changes we are seeing currently with climate change (you seem to be someone having trouble understanding the proof behind climate change and global warming), I suggest you go to realclimate.org. This is a site set up by professional climatologists and represents the current understanding and agreement of thousands of professional scientists in climatology and related fields.
Of course, you could just sneak little snarks against global warming into threads about phenomena that haven't been related to it, as you've just done. But I always like to suggest ways that people can correct their ignorance.
I guess the choice is yours.
I absolutely despise it when we get quote like "you can see it from space", but then they don't give us any pictures. Why no pictures people?
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