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December 4, 2008

Greenhouse Gases Make the Ocean Too Noisy

Still not afraid of harmless "greenhouse gases"? Let's try this:

Greenhouse gases worsen ocean noise by raising acidity levels and causing sound to travel farther, making it ever harder for marine mammals to communicate, UN and wildlife experts said today.

Other bad things that force whales to raise their voices include "shipping, oil and gas exploration, and military sonars." A lawyer for the whales bleats that their capacity to communicate has been reduced by 90%.

No doubt the UN will propose international regulations to put a stop to activities that make the ocean noisy.

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Dolphins have been forced to yell in each other's ears.

Hat tip: Tim Blair, on a tip from mandible claw.

Posted by Van Helsing at December 4, 2008 10:24 AM

Comments

They are just blatantly making shit up. No shame to be found in that bunch.

Posted by: Smoke TNT at December 4, 2008 10:30 AM

Obama outspent McCain by a quarter billion dollars.

Mr. Obama outspent Mr. McCain in Indiana nearly 7 to 1, in Virginia by more than 4 to 1, in Ohio by almost 2 to 1 and in North Carolina by nearly 3 to 2. Mr. Obama carried all four states.

And this doesn't even count the months of campaign support by the in-the-tank Obamamedia. What would it cost to buy thirty minutes of advertising on all nightly newscasts for six months, plus full page ads in all major newspapers everyday for six months, plus round-the-clock infomercials on CNN and MSNBC

And Still, with all that advantage, and with the worst possible Republican candidate except for Larry Craig, Chairman Zero still only one a bare popular vote majority.

Something to think about the next time an Obama Cultie boasts about his Dear Leader blowing away Republicans.

Posted by: V the K at December 4, 2008 11:11 AM

Humans are noisy. Off with our heads!

Posted by: forest at December 4, 2008 11:11 AM

Dang, that was supposed to go in teh Open Thread.

Posted by: V the K at December 4, 2008 11:16 AM

This is actually GREAT!

Think about wind generators. One of the favorite installation places is offshore where the on-shore/off-shore breezes are fairly continual. Those f***ing great monsters generate considerable vibrations that are sent down through their foundations into.... TA DA! the ocean.

Seems like a natural lawsuit to me. Save the whales, kill a Luddite!

Posted by: chuck in st paul at December 4, 2008 11:39 AM

"Greenhouse Gases Make the Ocean Too Noisy"

Greenhouse Gases also drive Moonbats out of their caves onto conservative Blogs to be abused.

Posted by: Thor at December 4, 2008 12:19 PM

Enviromental moonbats from GREENPEACE are the biggist noisemakers around going around in those blasted ships zooming around in their stupid zodiacs and just make a complete nucense of themselves CALL THEM GREENPESTS

Posted by: Spurwing Plover at December 4, 2008 12:21 PM

Spurwing, I'd love to see Greenpeace go stick up for the ecology of the Gulf of Aden. I'm sure those noisy and messy Somali pirates would back down immediately at the sight of a Greenpeace Rainbow dingy.

Posted by: forest at December 4, 2008 12:32 PM

Can you hear me NOW???

Posted by: Anonymous at December 4, 2008 12:52 PM

Forest, seeing the confrontation between the hippies and the pirates would be priceless!

Posted by: Adam at December 4, 2008 1:16 PM

Greenhouse gases worsen ocean noise by raising acidity levels and causing sound to travel farther

Horseshit. Complete, utter, unadulterated horseshit. (Pardon the French.)

Where to start? First, the oceans are buffered by (say it with me) CO2/bicarbonate and the dihydrogen/monohydrogen phosphate conjugate acid-base pairs. Changing the pH of the ocean significantly would be a truly Herculean task.

Second, even if the ocean's pH did change, buffering would make the change miniscule (e.g., it might change from 7.8 to 7.81, something like that).

Third, what exactly is the nexus between ocean pH and acoustic transmission? I don't see any, and the article didn't bother to share any with us. Why should changes in the ocean's pH have any effect on its acoustic properties? (Unless one lowered the pH so far as to make CO2 bubble out of the oceans like seltzer water...)

So the whole thing has to be dismissed as utter nonsense.

Posted by: Jay Guevara at December 4, 2008 1:23 PM

Oh for the love of fish tacos, really? I live in a city with five million sweaty stinking virtually unintelligible people all on top of me, clucking like hens in their native tongue, sirens blaring at all hours - and I'm going to worry about a fucking dolphin? Screw that - me first. When I am allowed some peace and quiet, I might be more inclined to share it with others.

Till then, You will find me relaxing with my hot pink ear plugs in.

RG

Posted by: RightGirl at December 4, 2008 1:34 PM

Bull Crappie!!

Posted by: apostle53 at December 4, 2008 1:48 PM

Good one, RightGirl!

Back in the day when I was going to Berkeley a moonbat thrust a pamphlet in my hands and bleated, "Would you kill Flipper for a tuna sandwich?"

I replied, "Not on porpoise." Turns out moonbats don't have much of a sense of humor...

Posted by: Jay Guevara at December 4, 2008 1:54 PM

Jay, its an interesting post, but I'm afraid you might be giving these nuts new material for their disaster scenarios with this last bit:

" (Unless one lowered the pH so far as to make CO2 bubble out of the oceans like seltzer water...)"

Posted by: Jay Guevara at December 4, 2008 1:23 PM

Posted by: forest at December 4, 2008 2:16 PM

Good one, THOR!

Nuke the porpoises! A porpoise killed my mother!

Well, to be honest, mom is still alive and in good health. But she did drop a package of frozen fish sticks on her foot once!

Posted by: KHarn at December 4, 2008 3:44 PM

I will never understand how liberals can justify the decapitation of unborn babies in the womb while simultaneously weeping over dolphins who may be annoyed by supposed noise in the ocean.

Posted by: Kristy at December 4, 2008 4:14 PM

Its because Humans are an inferior species! We are the plague of the planet.

I wish I were born a bear, so I could maul a liberal and run into the forest to get away with it.

Posted by: Cheesecake at December 4, 2008 4:27 PM

Shouldn't we have the "choice" to annoy dolphins if we want to? I mean, as a woman, I have the choice to get pregnant and then have my baby sucked out of my womb via a vacuum after first having its head removed, but I don't have the freedom to choose to hunt a polar bear or blast Metallica underwater to tick off dolphins?

Posted by: Anonymous at December 4, 2008 4:41 PM

If sound travels farther, wouldn't that actually make it easier to communicate? HEAR ME!

Posted by: Unscrupulous at December 4, 2008 4:41 PM

If dolphins were so smart, they'd figure out how to use cell phones.

Posted by: Anonymous at December 4, 2008 4:43 PM

Sweet Jeebus. If these liberal poptarts would focus their fantasy ideas into childrens books they would be rich, but that would be productive which they aren't.. What utter nonsense.

Posted by: Hemlock at December 4, 2008 4:47 PM

You're right, Forest, but at least we could get a good laugh at their expense, and Obama could get a new speech: "Today is the day the oceans stop bubbling."

Posted by: Jay Guevara at December 4, 2008 5:11 PM

Does farting in the ocean count? :)

Posted by: Farmer Ted at December 4, 2008 5:53 PM

greenhouse gases in the ocean?

probably whale fartz!

Posted by: nanc at December 4, 2008 5:53 PM

The instant I see the letters "U" and "N" in any story, no matter the subject, I immediately discount the whole thing as total "B" "S" (good way to live your life, in my humble opinion).

Posted by: jc14 at December 4, 2008 7:19 PM

Its funny how there were ZERO names, just "Experts." If they were experts, then certainly they'd provide more detailed information than just "They can't hear each other anymore."

Dumb it down so the dumb can feel smarter, and they'll believe anything you tell them.

Posted by: Cheesecake at December 4, 2008 8:33 PM

I'm beginning to think there was a serious mistranscription in the article.

It was just some moonbat yelling about she was talking to whales but 90% of them couldn't hear her, while she was on acid.

Posted by: mandible claw at December 4, 2008 10:16 PM

How come animal advocates never fight for cockroach rights? Or sewer rat rights?

Posted by: Jaeson at December 4, 2008 10:33 PM

"So long- and thx for all teh fish!"

Posted by: Flipper at December 5, 2008 4:28 AM

Reminds me of that episode of Metalocalypse where they created heavy metal music under water.

And maybe if the whales stopped farting so much the ocean wouldnt be as noisy!

http://www.manningworldnews.com/archives/000575.php

"Whale Fart Picture
Posted by Scott Manning on August 27, 2003 | Comments (16)

For the first time, scientists have both witnessed and photographed a whale gas bubble, suggesting that flatulence is just as common for ocean mammals as it is for humans and many other terrestrial animals.

The picture is best described by Nick Gales, principal research scientist in the Applied Marine Mammal Ecology Group of the Australian Antarctic Division in Tasmania. Gales was leading an expedition of the Charolotte Pass between Marguerite Bay and Palmer Station, Antarctica, when the ship's captain, Joe Borkowski III, took the photo.

"The picture is of an Antarctic minke whale taken from the bow of a ship," Gales explained. "The white bits in the photo are pieces of ice-floe, the stream of pinky color behind the whale is a fecal plume — a.k.a. "poo" — the large circle in the water is indeed the physical eruption of the whale's flatulence.""


Posted by: Name at December 5, 2008 5:54 AM

Jaeson, in some cases, they DO!
I remember a few years ago, Universal Studios Florida had some kind of promotion for Halloween Horror Nights, in which people who ate a few live cockroaches (a la Fear Factor) were given free tickets or something. The PETA dickheads threw temper tantrums over this, howling about how cockroaches are "Misunderstood," and how they are in fact very "Complex, gentle creatures." I remember reading their reponse made me want to puke.

Posted by: Adam at December 5, 2008 6:20 AM

THEY CALL HIM FLIPPER,FLIPPER FASTER THEN LIGHTNING.NO ONE YOU SEE,IS SMARTER THEN HE

Posted by: Spurwing Plover at December 5, 2008 8:09 AM

Thank heavens, it must mean I'm not a moonbat....I laughed at Apostle's porpoise joke.

There's some low level official on Long Island trying to declare CO2 a poison. He was on Mark Levin's show. His ignorance over the most basic 2nd grade level science was astounding. He wants to take the food right out of my houseplants' mouths!!! He was a scheduled guest, but he ended up hanging up when Mark got the better of him.

Posted by: Karin at December 5, 2008 9:17 AM

Did you ever see the movie DAY OF THE DOLPHIN? they teach dolphins to speak and they sound kind of like ALVIN,SIMON and THEADORE PHA WANT PA PHA THINK GREENPEACE IS STUPID. and SQUAWK SQUAWK SO DOSE SPURWING PLOVER THEY ARE STUPID GREENPEACE IS STUPID AND SO ARE THEIR IDIOTS ALWAYS PULLING OFF STUPID AND IDIOTIC STUNTS

Posted by: Spurwing Plover at December 5, 2008 4:01 PM

They have to make greenhouse gases do something bad. After all, more and more news comes out every day against the global warming conspiracy.

Posted by: slackathor at December 5, 2008 5:09 PM

The favorite food of the MARBLED MURLET are the DELTA SMELT the favorite food of dolphins and SNAIL DARTERS the favorite food of SPURWING PLOVERS are FLOWER LOVING FLIES their suppost to be endangred but the taste okay

Posted by: Spurwing Plover at December 6, 2008 9:04 AM