Killer Jellyfish

The Independent Bloghorn was one of the first to identify that the global warming alarmists were shifting their laser beam focus on the soon to be extinct polar bear to other animals, like the American Pika.  For more on this, you can read Polar Bear Huggers.

I am always on the lookout for stories that focus on how global warming is affecting other carbon based lifeforms.  Apparently the warm oceans is causing Jellyfish populations to surge.  Did I mention that these are killer jellyfish?  Is my prose striking fear in your heart?  It’s not?  Well perhaps you should read a passage from the article published by the AP, written by Michael Casey:

A blood-orange blob the size of a small refrigerator emerged from the dark waters, its venomous tentacles trapped in a fishing net. Within minutes, hundreds more were being hauled up, a pulsating mass crowding out the catch of mackerel and sea bass.

The fishermen leaned into the nets, grunting and grumbling as they tossed the translucent jellyfish back into the bay, giants weighing up to 200 kilograms (450 pounds), marine invaders that are putting the men’s livelihoods at risk.

The venom of the Nomura, the world’s largest jellyfish, a creature up to 2 meters (6 feet) in diameter, can ruin a whole day’s catch by tainting or killing fish stung when ensnared with them in the maze of nets here in northwest Japan‘s Wakasa Bay.

Are you scared now?  I sure hope so.  It is not very often that we find professional journalists that are so adept at conjuring up the skills they learned from their freshman creative writing class.  The vivid imagery, tactful alliterations, the incomplete sentence in paragraph 2 all combine to communicate one simple message: Be afraid…Very afraid, of KILLER JELLYFISH.

Fine, I admit it, I am scared.  Please Mr. Casey, tell me there is something that government can do to solve this problem.

Addressing the surge in jellyfish blooms in most places will require long-term fixes, such as introducing fishing quotas and pollution controls, as well as capping greenhouse gas emissions to control global warming, experts said.

Whatever it takes, whatever the costs, I hope we can all do our part to fight back this invasion.