Study: Dead sea creatures cover 98 percent of ocean floor off California coast;

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Study: Dead sea creatures cover 98 percent of ocean floor off California coast; up from 1 percent before Fukushima
Thursday, January 02, 2014

http://www.naturalnews.com/043380_Fukushima_radiation_ocean_life.html#ixzz2pM3P9QaO

(NaturalNews) The Pacific Ocean appears to be dying, according to a new study recently published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Scientists from the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI) in California recently discovered that the number of dead sea creatures blanketing the floor of the Pacific is higher than it has ever been in the 24 years that monitoring has taken place, a phenomenon that the data suggests is a direct consequence of nuclear fallout from Fukushima.

Though the researchers involved with the work have been reluctant to pin Fukushima as a potential cause -- National Geographic, [http://newswatch.nationalgeographic.com/2013/11/22/sea-snot-explosions-feed-deep-sea-creatures/] which covered the study recently, did not even mention Fukushima -- the timing of the discovery suggests that Fukushima is, perhaps, the cause. According to the data, this sudden explosion[possibly from sub marine volcanoes?] in so-called "sea snot," which is the name given to the masses of dead sea creatures that sink to the ocean floor as food, has skyrocketed since the Fukushima incident occurred.

Learn more: http://www.naturalnews.com/043380_Fukushima_radiation_ocean_life.html#ixzz2pM5772kQ

The article later suggests that this problem was already noted prior to 2011, and the Fukishima meltdown.

Let's focus on what occured prior to the Fukishima meltdown... a 9.1 earthquake!

Here's a few interesting facts recorded about this earthquake (Wikipedia):

2011 Tohoku earthquake was the most powerful known earthquake ever to have hit Japan, and the fifth most powerful earthquake in the world since modern record-keeping began in 1900.

The earthquake moved Honshu (the main island of Japan) 2.4 m (8 ft) east.

The earthquake shifted the Earth on its axis by estimates of between 10 cm (4 in) and 25 cm (10 in),[19][20][21] and generated sound waves detected by the low orbiting GOCE satellite. ...This deviation led to a number of small planetary changes, including the length of a day, the tilt of the Earth, and the Chandler wobble. The axial shift was caused by the redistribution of mass on the Earth's surface, which changed the planet's moment of inertia.

Japan has experienced over 1000 aftershocks since the earthquake, with 80 registering over magnitude 6.0 Mw and several of which have been over magnitude 7.0 Mw.

In Antarctica, the seismic waves from the earthquake were reported to have caused the Whillans Ice Stream to slip by about 0.5 m (1.6 ft)

IT seems that the Tohuku earthquake that was strong enough to cause affects as far away as Antartica might have been a "kick-off" event as there are other signs that undersea vents and submarine volcanoes in the Pacific's Ring of Fire are/have become much more active since that event.


Five months following the Japan eathquake an Underwater volcano off Oregon coast erupts
http://www.iceagenow.com/Surprise-Underwater_volcano_off_Oregon_coast_erupts.htm

9 Aug 11 - "An undersea volcano has erupted off the coast of Oregon, spewing forth a layer of lava more than 12 feet thick in some places," says this article by Andrea Mustain.

The eruption opened up new deep vents that are now belching forth "a cloudy stew of hot water and microbes from deep inside the Earth."

Scientists going back to pick up their monitoring equipment from an earlier expedition to the Axial Seamount, an underwater volcano some 250 miles off the coast of Oregon, were surprised to find a totally changed seafloor.

"At first we were really confused, and thought we were in the wrong place," said Bill Chadwick, a geologist with Oregon State University.

"Finally we figured out we were in the right place but the whole seafloor had changed, and that's why we couldn't recognize anything. All of a sudden it hit us that, wow, there had been an eruption. So it was very exciting."

In addition to producing lakes of lava, in places more than a mile across, the eruption changed the configuration of the region's seafloor hot springs.

"There are more vents, they're higher temperature," said Chadwick.

Do you suppose that lakes of lava more than a mile
across and 12 feet thick might heat the water a tad?

Could it be that the March earthquake resounded around the globe, causing more vents to open up? Thereby releasing more CO2/SO2
as well as releasing more methane caldrates, acidifying the coastal waters, disrupting marine ecosystems, and causing a rapid increase in the rate of die-offs? One would think if radioactivity were to blame for the current increase in marine die-offs, they could test the "sea snot" for radioactivity, but there's only been speculation without proof sited.

An image of an area around the Juan de Fuca Ridge being studied by the Oceanic Observatories Initiative shows increasing acidification of coastal waters already back in 2007. Imagine how much this area of acidification has expanded since then:

http://www.ooi.washington.edu/story/Ocean_Acidification
Curiously, this image depicts the range of ocean acidification along North American's Pacific coast, but mentions nothing about the very active undersea vents contributing to the ocean's acidification, just the same old song and dance about fossil fuel emissions. They even have a caption that says "60% of active volcanoes are under the sea"; I would estimate this to be much higher only because most of the ridges on the tectonic plates hosting these gas spewing vents ARE on the ocean floors!

This LiveScience article seemed to have a clue back in 2011:

The new proof higher-than-expected levels of carbon dioxide in the magma from a volcano off the coast of Oregon suggests the volcanoes may play a greater role in global climate than thought.

Of all the volcanic activity on Earth, 75 to 80 percent of it takes place at deep-sea ridges in the middle of the oceans. Most of these volcanoes apparently spew out huge volumes of lava instead of erupting explosively , as many volcanoes on land do.
[...]
"Direct evidence for high carbon dioxide concentrations in a mid-ocean-ridge volcano was unexpected and surprising," researcher Christoph Helo, a volcanologist at McGill University in Montreal, told OurAmazingPlanet.

These findings suggest the amount of the global-warming gas carbon dioxide that is released from the deeper mantle into the Earth's atmosphere at mid-ocean ridges falls within the higher end of past estimates, nearly 10 times more than the lowest end. That could have key implications for climate change.[ya think?]

Still, Helo said, volcanic carbon dioxide, unlike man-made emissions, "is not a variable that has undergone drastic changes within the past century."[say whaaaATT!]

The extensive research going on off the northwest pacific coast leads me to think they are anticipating something big.
This model shows all the areas of study the Ocean Observatories Initiative has invested in since 2005, you'll find it's a massively funded project which is stingy on sharing data and stubborn on editing their conclusions about the causes of climate change.
A case for "not seeing the forest for the trees".

We've been forewarned by the C's regarding the 10.4mag earthquake, and HUGE tsunami to enter Puget Sound.

Session 4 July 1998:

A: In Florida now, where to next? How about a shattering subduction quake in Pacific Northwest of U.S.? We estimate 10.4 on the Richter scale. We have warned of Rainier. Imagine a 150 meter high tsunami in Puget Sound...
[snip]
Q: (L) Anything else other than a tsunami in Puget Sound and a big subduction quake... 10.4 on the Richter scale is almost inconceivable.

A: Rainier... caldera.

Q: (L) What about the caldera?

A: Expect one.

And more recently, a new island appeared off the coast of Japan
http://www.sott.net/article/269010-New-island-created-off-Japan-following-dramatic-Pacific-Ocean-volcanic-eruption

see also on forum Laura's post: The Sign that Things are About to Change Rapidly http://cassiopaea.org/forum/index.php/topic,33168.msg456550.html#msg456550

The rate at which things are changing does seem to be increasing rapidly. Radioactive pollution seems to be irrelevant in this case of mass marine die off.
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In Japan it is believed the appearance of oar fish means an earthquake is imminent. Since November, over 19 of the rare fish have washed up on the shores of Japan. Perhaps the 98% increase in dead sea life on the ocean floor off California's west coast should be considered with a similar perspective?