Near-record 'dead zone' predicted in Gulf of Mexico

[bluemingidiot]

A major factor is the abnormally high amount of spring rainfall in many parts of the Mississippi River watershed that led to record amounts of water carrying large amounts of fertilizer and other nutrients downriver.  The nutrients feed algae, which die and then decompose on the sea floor, using up oxygen from the bottom up.

www.chron.com/news/texas/article/Near-record-dead-zone-predicted-in-Gulf-of-13965532.php

[bluemingidiot]

If you look at the dead zone, it is most pronounced off the coast of Louisiana and in areas far from the Mississippi River alluvial fan..

www.noaa.gov/media-release/gulf-of-mexico-dead-zone-is-largest-ever-measured

The Gulf of Mexico currents do not seem to support the problem coming from the Mississippi River.

www.aoml.noaa.gov/phod/dhos/geos.php

I wouldn't at all be surprised if someday we learned it is caused by Cajuns.

[Bear Foot Farm]

Deja Vu

blog.al.com/wire/2013/06/record-size_dead_zone_predicte.html

June 25, 2013

MOBILE, Ala. - A record-size ‘dead zone’ – as big as the state of New Jersey - will take shape this summer in the Gulf of Mexico, according to experts.

The National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration is predicting one of the biggest dead zones since monitoring began in 1985.

The culprit? Heavy rainfall across the Midwest this spring, causing massive runoff of fertilizer into rivers and streams that feed the Gulf.

Scientists from Louisiana and Michigan are forecasting a Gulf dead zone of between 7,286 and 8,561 square miles. That’s bigger than the states of Connecticut and New Jersey, and more than double the 2,889 square miles last year, when the Midwest was gripped by drought.

[feather]

So there is a big area of water with no oxygen, making it impossible for humans to breath under water. And it's the cajuns fault. ah huh. See, I was reading your posts.

[bluemingidiot]

Jun 12, 2019 0:48:59 GMT feather said:

So there is a big area of water with no oxygen, making it impossible for humans to breath under water. And it's the cajuns fault. ah huh. See, I was reading your posts.

Surely you have something more worthwhile to do?

[feather]

Jun 12, 2019 0:56:54 GMT bluemingidiot said:

Jun 12, 2019 0:48:59 GMT feather said:

So there is a big area of water with no oxygen, making it impossible for humans to breath under water. And it's the cajuns fault. ah huh. See, I was reading your posts.

Surely you have something more worthwhile to do?

I surely do. I'm trying to perfect my procrastination skills. I appear to be very good at it.

[bluemingidiot]

Perfected dysfunction sounds kind of oxymoronish.

Is dysfunction a consequence of social interaction? Like was Adam dysfunctional before God made Eve? If you lived alone in a world you would determine when things should be done based on your priorities. Nothing would be late. Eve and Adam had competing priorities and timelines they kept trying to impose on each other. Was this struggle the origin of our dysfunctions?

Whatever, "... to thine own self be true...." If you can't or don't want to overcome a dysfunction then go ahead and try to perfect it.

[Jolly]

Dysfunction?

They make blue pillsfor that...

[feather]

Procrastination can cause you to miss your flight.
The flight crashes, everyone on it dies.
So, procrastination is not a dysfunction, it is a life saving behavior.

I guess it all depends on your attitude towards it.

[bluemingidiot]

From time to time I have heard people acknowledge being a procrastinator but I have never heard anyone admit to being an anticrastinator.