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General Category => Science, Technology and Knowledge => Topic started by: flowers on April 16, 2014, 03:13:20 pm

Title: Climate change causing fish to lose their minds, researchers say
Post by: flowers on April 16, 2014, 03:13:20 pm: http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/apr/16/climate-change-causing-fish-lose-their-minds-resea/

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Climate change’s latest casualty appears to be fish — or more specifically, fish brains — as researchers say the carbon dioxide that’s being absorbed into the ocean is causing the scaly creatures to lose their survival instincts.

In other words, the fish are losing their minds, The Daily Mail reported.

The acid from atmospheric carbon dioxide seeps into sea waters, dissolves and ultimately lowers the pH balance, researchers said. The acidic waters then hamper the fishes’ sensory systems, so they’re not able to distinguish between smells any longer, the scientists went on.

When the acid levels get really high, the fish lose their GABAA receptive powers — a specific piece of DNA that’s in most marine life forms that guides their nervous systems. Without GABAA, neurons don’t properly fire — and thus, the fish lose their full brain capacities, researchers concluded, The Daily Mail reported.
Title: Re: Climate change causing fish to lose their minds, researchers say
Post by: jmyrlefuller on April 16, 2014, 03:14:34 pm: Fish insanity. This is a new one.
Title: Re: Climate change causing fish to lose their minds, researchers say
Post by: DCPatriot on April 16, 2014, 03:14:43 pm: Me, too!
Title: Re: Climate change causing fish to lose their minds, researchers say
Post by: alicewonders on April 16, 2014, 03:28:32 pm: I can see the inklings of a great science-fiction movie with this.

:th_10444:
Title: Re: Climate change causing fish to lose their minds, researchers say
Post by: Relic on April 16, 2014, 05:14:44 pm: You have to marvel at the left's creativity. They simply keep throwing out claims that are virtually impossible to prove or disprove. But, it keeps that under current of "something bad is happening" in the public's mind. It's human nature to think we are at the end of the world's existence. The left plays off of that.

If you have no morals, and no ethics, as is true of most leftist leaders, you can accomplish a lot.
Title: Re: Climate change causing fish to lose their minds, researchers say
Post by: katzenjammer on April 16, 2014, 05:18:48 pm: Climate change causing researchers to lose their minds, fish say

(makes more sense....)

:silly:
Title: Re: Climate change causing fish to lose their minds, researchers say
Post by: Oceander on April 17, 2014, 05:31:40 pm: Quote from: katzenjammer on April 16, 2014, 05:18:48 pm
Climate change causing researchers to lose their minds, fish say

(makes more sense....)

:silly:

definitely makes more sense.
Title: Re: Climate change causing fish to lose their minds, researchers say
Post by: NavyCanDo on April 17, 2014, 06:38:26 pm: Quote from: alicewonders on April 16, 2014, 03:28:32 pm
I can see the inklings of a great science-fiction movie with this.

:th_10444:

I have the title. One swam over the cuckoo's nest
Title: Re: Climate change causing fish to lose their minds, researchers say
Post by: alicewonders on April 17, 2014, 06:40:57 pm: Quote from: NavyCanDo on April 17, 2014, 06:38:26 pm

I have the title. One swam over the cuckoo's nest

That's good! :silly:
Title: Re: Climate change causing fish to lose their minds, researchers say
Post by: Oceander on April 21, 2014, 02:50:19 am: Quote from: NavyCanDo on April 17, 2014, 06:38:26 pm

I have the title. One swam over the cuckoo's nest

:bigsilly:
Title: Re: Climate change causing fish to lose their minds, researchers say
Post by: Bigun on May 08, 2014, 04:45:07 pm: (https://fbcdn-sphotos-f-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash3/t1.0-9/10256494_10152078408705896_4310960091804287979_n.jpg)
Title: Re: Climate change causing fish to lose their minds, researchers say
Post by: PzLdr on May 08, 2014, 10:02:46 pm: Well, Since even I can catch them, it might be true.