Yeah, that image moved to archive. And picture this... that the surface of 700km radius' blob has a plastic coating on top. All the main gyres in the oceans have huge 'plastic soup' acreages' (Anyone don't tell me you don't know). Latest research has proofed most of this plastic gets knocked down to micro-particles and ends in the food chain [unwittingly hundreds of thousands of birds snap bottle caps up and feed it to their chicks... Sample sand on any beach of the planet and you'll find plastic under the microscope? Fish gets caught, processed, and fed to livestock... their meat you eat, their excrement get on the land we grow crops on absorbing whatever chemicals these plastics release. We're doing a fantastic job, to calculate what's needed, and then the pecunias are counted and the collateral damage is calculated... PG&E and their mentality springs to mind. How many of those are housed on the 5 continents (#6 is not yet invested).

Bon Appetite.

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Item 2 of "Abandoned Islands": http://www.theworldgeography.com/2012/06/9-ab...lands-where-time-has.html . The project researchers may know that one (in case they do actual field work). More info http://www.flickr.com/photos/baldeaglebluff/4641189746/in/photostream/

Interestingly, there's a representative in Virginia [Stolle?] who's got trouble with the term "Sea Level Rise" or SLR, so he had it removed from a recent state sponsored report and refer to the coastal problem as "Recurring Flooding". Ostrich speak, me thinketh.

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45 nanograms per liter is equivalent to a 45 parts per quadrillion or 4.5 x 10^-11. That's 2.2 grams of caffein in ten million tons of water. I agree we should keep track of pollution, but will any creatures get a caffeine high at that level? I am amazed at the incredible sensitivity of our analytical techniques even though I helped develop some of them. Perhaps, though, we should worry more about the really serious contamination which poses a clearly demonstrable hazard.

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This reminded me of the Sustainable Water project, albeit, in decades there might not be much watershed left to sustain: Can Chesapeake area residents survive