As
a growing number of oxygen-deprived “dead zones” in the world’s seas
not only threaten marine plant and animal life, the suffocating waters
also give off the greenhouse gas nitrous oxide.
In an article
published in the journal “Science,” Dr. Lou Codispoti, oceanographer at
the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science in the USA
explains that the warming oceans are causing microbes, especially those
in the more shallow, low-oxygen zones, to produce high levels of the
gas, which are then passed into the atmosphere to further aggravate
climate change.
Along with trapping 289 times more heat than
carbon dioxide over a 20-year period, nitrous oxide also further
depletes the Earth's ozone layer, thus increasing our exposure to
harmful UV radiation.
Dr. Codispoti, your study indeed sounds a
warning that cannot be ignored and we are grateful for your
observations. Let us all act now in planet-cooling endeavors to
stabilize the environments of both land and sea.
Supreme Master
Ching Hai has often cautioned about the detriments of poisonous gases
being released by the warming oceans, along with global warming’s root
solution, as during an international gathering with our Association
members in February 2008.
Supreme Master Ching Hai:
You see, the gases are fuming from the ocean and from the land that’s
been deforested. It’s fuming everywhere. It’s just that at the moment,
it’s not so intense. , yeah? But it’ll be more and more intense if we
don’t do something.
Everybody knows by now, from the UN Report
that meat eating, animal raising, it’s one of the worst factors, or even
the worst factor of global warming.
And nobody talks about it.
Everybody says, okay, new energy, biofuel, hybrid car, dig a hole and
store the carbon. As if it will not bust one day. And before that you
have to breathe in already, as if it will not affect you.
What
is so difficult, to put down one piece of meat, and replace it with one
piece of tofu. Which is exactly the same, better nutrition. Better for
your health. More economized.
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/03/100311141213.htm http://www.epa.gov/nitrousoxide/sources.html http://www.inhabitat.com/2010/03/12/aquatic-dead-zones-produce-greenhouse-gas-300x-more-potent-than-co2/world-wide-dead-zones/
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