Forget global warming, consider global blooming | GreenTech Pastures | ZDNet.com

Recently I tried to warn an indifferent public about the curse of the killer jellyfish. This time, it’s an even tinier threat, but also a great one. Deadly and toxic algal blooms are increasing in the world’s coastal waters. Researchers cite degraded water quality from increased nutrient pollution as the cause of increased HABs (harmful algal blooms). The algae can kill fish, marine mammals and other micro-organisms. And make you very sick.

In a related online poll, little global warming hysteria

The end of society as we know it will come

* when China stops lending money to the U.S. (47%)
* the algal blooms kill all the ocean's fish (21%)
* a comet smashes into the earth (16%)
* when the India-Pakistan nuc war causes nuclear winter (11%)
* when global warming floods New York and Amsterdam (5%)