Starfish dying in the NW Pacific

[nadinbrzezinski]

145. Even the UCSC study that ironically Earl cited as evidence

is NOT claiming it has a bit to do with radiation. Moreover, the phenomena is also occurring in the Atlantic. Which Earl avoids with a passion, since geographically it is even harder to explain how star fish from the Atlantic reached the Aleutians.

See here for the Rhode Island outbreak as detailed by the WAPO

http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/sea-stars-are-wasting-away-in-larger-numbers-on-a-wider-scale-in-two-oceans/2013/11/22/05652194-4be1-11e3-be6b-d3d28122e6d4_story.html

It also started before the accident, and it seems to be a repeat of an outbreak in the 1980s. And if you read native american lore, this happens with star fish. We do not know why, but it is like either a virus or a bacteria, likely both, spreading like wild fire across the population every so often. With humans think smallpox, or any other highly infectious disease that used to run thought the population.

I am worried about radiation into the environment, but ascribing something that is not related to Fukushima does a diservice and steals credibility from those who want to have their hair on fire over this. The poster actually believes that Fuku is an extinction level event. An extinction level event would be the Cambrian Extinction or for that matter the asteroid that hit the planet sixty five million years ago. Scientists are making the argument that we might very well be living through one, the holocene extinction, and it started well before we even split the atom. It is likely related to human activity, likely not 100 percent, and it has to do with climate change and habitat destruction, not radiation.

So there you have it. He keeps pushing this even when his sources contradict it.