In the video link below, you will see that crops are failing and birds are dying far inland from the coast where the BP Oil Spill is being treated by the dispersant Corexit. Corexit is HIGHLY TOXIC, more toxic than the oil that is devastating the Gulf coast. It is thought that the dispersant that is being sprayed by planes is being swept into the air stream and moving inland causing widespread crop failures. They have no other explanation for what they see is happening to crops and wildlife. Should a tropical storm or hurricane hit the Gulf and move inland, it could carry the dispersant even further. If it is killing birds, what is it doing to humans breathing this air?
I see a repeating theme of warnings of coming food shortages. I have advised over and over again the importance of getting your personal or community gardens going; saving seeds, buying heirloom seeds and storing seeds. Here is another report which warns of coming food shortages:
The Space and Science Research Center warns over the next 30 months, global temperatures are expected to make another dramatic drop with years of devastating to total crop losses in the Canadian and northern US grain regions.
The ocean’s are showing lower levels of oxygen and acidity which in turn threatens the balance of undersea ecosystems and the food chain.
According to an article on Piscoweb.org (Partnership for Interdisciplinary Studies of Coastal Oceans) “The ocean is more acidic due to increases in carbon dioxide in the atmosphere; predictions are for a warmer and even more acidic ocean. Numerous studies have shown that more acid has great biological impacts.” Dead zones and ocean acidification are two major threats facing the ocean on the west coast of North America.
Oceanographer Gregory Johnson of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration in Seattle, says that the low oxygen content (also known as hypoxia) has always existed in the deeper parts of the oceans. Recently, however, this hypoxia is moving towards the oceans surface and spreading. “The depletion of oxygen levels in all three oceans (the Pacific, Atlantic and Indian oceans) is striking,” Johnson says.
