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Friday, June 16, 2006

Great Green Goo


Algae is back bigtime in the Great Lakes, particularly the shallow Lake Erie. The traditional culprit, phosphorous, is partially to blame but the real villains are zebra mussels who filter water causing sunlight to penetrate into deeper water aiding the proliferation of the algae.

For more on the greening of the Great Lakes.
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posted by Galli Galli Sim Sim at 7:38 AM

3 Comments:

  • HUH. Is there anything they can do about it? I wonder how long until algore blames the Bush Administration for this too.

    By Blogger Vulture 6, at 1:20 PM  

  • Feeling sorry for poor little Bushy and his cronies? Gore's movie is doing pretty well...

    The Chesapeake Bay has faced issues of eutrophication for decades now. Oysters from the bay were harvested in the millions at the beginning of the 20th century. By the end, the harvest was in the hundreds of thousands.

    The bay's main problem is artificial fertilizer runoff.

    I guess we need huge, luxurious trimmed lawns filled with invasive grasses, don't we? And those grasses need lots and lots of artificial fertilizer.

    It would be inconvenient to discard an age-old tradition for the sake of our natural resources.

    ::end sarcasm::

    Thanks for the link.

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 5:04 PM  

  • I LOVED Gore's movie. The only one so far to come up with a solution. That counts for something rather than the Ostrich strategy which everybody 'in power' seems to be doing. Only Ostriches bury their heads in sand, not up their own backsides.

    Was wondering if the algae could be used to produce energy somehow? Or cattle-feed, or something. Surely there's got to be some positive here.

    By Blogger Chandira, at 12:57 PM  

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