The carp solution:
Eat them. In vast numbers. Yes, I know they taste terrible. Sell them as discount food.
It works for the Chinese.
Actually, the native american species of carp taste like fish sticks when properly cooked.
(Grew up poor. Ate a LOT of "trash fish" growing up, because there isn't a catch limit.)
By the way, what do you people think of global warming?
I'm pretty sure that the threat is exagerated and we will be fine. but I also read a comic that I strongly agreed with and chuckled at.
There was a man standing up during a lecture on global warming. He proclaims "What if this is all a big hoax and we make the world a better place in vain??"
Because. Y'know. If we do something about it there's no way we'll lose even if it was all pigtails. ... except if there's the unlikely event that global warming could have prevented the next ice age or something. You never know, but it's always best to act on the likely things that could occur rather than the unlikely y'know?
The problem with global climate change (more specifically, anthropogenic climate change) is that people often conflate it with weather. Weather is dependent upon climate, but climate is not weather.
That the climate has changed is undeniable, and even the most outspoken in the "skeptic" (ahem..) community have reluctantly acknowledged this. They contend that the climate change is not anthropogenic, however. I won't touch that lepritic whore of an issue with a 100 meter pole.
Instead, I will look at it this way: if the climate change is NOT anthropogenic, then the human contribution certainly can't be helping things any. A recent report from one of those many climate research firms with alphabet soup names reported that temperature probe data from several sites in northern hemispheric tundra indicates a trend that will result in those areas ceasing to be a carbon sink, and turn into a carbon source. To better understand what that means, imagine if the amazonian rainforest caught fire, and was totally burned up, and the impact that would have. The two events are on par with other.
Another disturbing report came from russia, where it was reported that methane clathrate deposits were no longer thermally stable, and were actively seeping methane. Methane clathrate is a special kind of water ice that mechanically contains methane gas in an alarmingly high concentration. Methane clathrate can literally be set on fire. Methane is co2's big brother in the greenhouse gas family, and unstable clathrate deposits are a very very bad thing.
When clathrates on the seabed decompose, they expell an effervescent stream of gas bubbles, which causes ships to spontaneously lose their bouyancy, and literally fall to the seafloor without warning. (A ship floats by displacing water volume, because uniform water pressure against the hull pushes it up. When the water cannot be atmospherically pressurized, because the net density drops, because it is now a lowered density foam, the ship sinks like a rock.) The vast majority of methane clathrate is on coastal shelves. So, not only will the spontaneous thermal breakdown of these deposits release more methane than the whole of human civilization could release in co2 if it were nuked from orbit, it will also make sea travel impossible in coastal waters that have such deposits, until the deposits are completely exhausted.
I find climate change quite worrisome, therefor. The sooner we ditch the gasoline and coal addiction, the better. All the more so if the trend is indeed natural.
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