Oh fer crying out loud, stop dumping fertilizer laden water into the rivers that feed the dead zone and it will clear up! Why do people look for high tech solutions to low tech problems? In this case the decline of California's agriculture would have a side benefit for the Pacific ocean.

I guess a dead marine zone must be more desirable to those that run the show than forcing the agriculture industry to treat it's own excrement.

Nothing must get in the way of profit.

This is not quite as controversial as “An Inconvenient Truth,” though scientists do differ. A 2007 United Nations study estimated the rise in sea level by 2100 at between 7 inches and 2 feet.

Pilkey and Young, however, argue that number is flawed, or at least misleading, since the U.N. panel that wrote the report neglected to factor in the melting of ice caps in Greenland and Antarctica. These ARE melting, along with most of the world’s glaciers – satellite photos prove it – and other studies indicate this melting sped up in the past few decades. All this melting will release tons and tons of water into the ocean.

What does this mean?

Well, goodbye to a lot of low-lying Pacific atolls. Several island nations, such as Tuvalu and Kiribati (site of the World War II battlefield of Tarawa) are already hastily planning evacuations. Goodbye to beautiful Venice; St. Mark’s Square is already flooded one-third of the time (something that happened maybe once or twice a year before 1900), and the city’s population has been halved since the mid-1990s.

Goodbye, maybe, to Miami, and to much of Louisiana – coastal erosion is already washing away 20 to 35 square miles of Louisiana wetlands per year, and much of the Mississippi Delta is well below 7 feet in elevation.

Oh fer crying out loud, stop dumping fertilizer laden water into the rivers that feed the dead zone and it will clear up! Why do people look for high tech solutions to low tech problems? In this case the decline of California's agriculture would have a side benefit for the Pacific ocean.

and what are they gonna do with it?