Researcher says Gulf dead zone bigger than ever

By MICHAEL GRACZYK , Associated Press Writer, Space & Earth science / Environment

(AP) -- A "dead zone" in the Gulf of Mexico off the Texas-Louisiana coast this year is likely to be the biggest ever and last longer than ever before, with marine life affected for hundreds of miles, a scientist warned.

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Posted by vanderMerwe 07/23/08 15:01

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This sort of scam makes me furious. There's a dead zone at the mouth of every river that dumps a significant amount of organic matter into the ocean. Always has been. The one on the Mississippi has been written about since the 1930's. It's the ozone hole all over again. Some envirocrazy finds something like this and all of a sudden starts doing a Jeremiah number about how society has caused this and then starts passing the hat around like some tent revival preacher. These bastards prey on ordinary people's desire not to hurt the environment.

The role of nitrogen fertilizers in dead zones is not solid science by any measure as this piece in this very website demonstrates.

http://www.physor...336.html