Thousands of Rubber Ducks to Finally End Journey

Bert de Jong writes "The Daily Mail reports that thousands of rubber ducks who have traveled the seas of the world since 1992 are about to end their journey. After escaping out of a container fallen off a Chinese freight ship in a storm, scientists have been followed them on their fifteen year trek. This has turned out to be an invaluable source of information for studying ocean currents. Now it seems inevitable though that they will finally land on the shores of South-West England. '[Oceanographer Curtis Ebbesmeyer] correctly predicted what many thought was impossible - that thousands of them would end up washed into the Arctic ice near Alaska, and then move at a mile a day, frozen in the pack ice, around their very own North-West Passage to the Atlantic. It proved true years later and in 2003, the first Friendly Floatees were found, frozen and then thawed out, on the eastern seaboard of the U.S. and Canada. So precious to science are they that the US firm that made them is offering a £50 bounty for finding one.'"

Comments

Face it, china/india are the problems...

[cheekyboy]

All the technology and cleanup and reductions in the world will do ZERO good because the whole of china + india and asia (with their wreckless stupid forest burning)
will out do 10 fold all the reductions the west does.

If they are that dumb, then let them suffer with 90% cancer rates and dead agriculture farms polluted to death. China doesnt get it.
Its not about being nice and green for no reason, its about not destroying your only source of human lively hood.

What good is it to make $5000 billion in profits when in 30 years 90% of the population has cancer of lungs and poisoned water that costs
more than petrol. Or does china want to kill 900 million people in one go? cheaporgansbay.com ?

100 rockets a day is nothing compared to 5000 coal plants in china.