Oxygen from the oceans? 
fledgling
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In 1970 I remember hearing some of an interview with a man who was doing a lecture tour across our country.
That was long before the days when a seat at a lecture cost hundreds of dollars...and protesters were a great novelty...to me, anyway.
The point this fellow wanted to make was that 70% of the world's oxygen comes from the green growing things in the oceans...and that we were/are killing off the green growing things in the ocean.
Apparently the Swiss have been keeping a record of the oxygen level world-wide, for decades...since the 1930's.
There are no isolated places for air. No one can claim it's theirs.
And now it is quite low.
The radio host asked the lecturer when the oxygen level would be dangerously low. The lecturer replied that he was worried now.
I expressed the opinion on Curezone that our most expensive fuel is the oxygen we use to burn fossil fuels...and now I would like to see all the machines we use to grow food hauled off our growing soils.
I mean, what is wrong with small communities of workers and their families living right on the land, and using no-till methods, and hardy heritage seeds...scattered.
I know big conglomerates would have coniption fits, but that's better than the alternatives we all face.
Fledgling
- Re: Oxygen from the oceans? Mira528
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This is a reply to # 1,749,065i always find it hard to believe this sort of thing. It's sort of like global warming, which is an idea that's continually pushed on us.
I do wonder though ... if oxygen levels are low, maybe it has something to do with the birds that have been falling out of the sky recently. - Re: Oxygen from the oceans? fledgling
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MoreThis is a reply to # 1,749,065I used to know the numbers.
At first, in the 1930's it was 36/38%, last I heard it was 18% in the cities.
At 16%, we die.
Something like that, they said.
But, don't take my word for it...ask the Swiss...if you can find the numbers published.
Or, ask Sylvia Earl and her contemporaries if the oceans are dying. http://www.nationalgeographic.com/field/explorers/sylvia-earle.html
Me? I prefer to live among trees.
- Re: Oxygen from the oceans? pawel110
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This is a reply to # 1,749,429Upon further digging up on information, it was about a project to help us produce more Oxygen since we are being depleting the Oxygen available by burning fossil fuels, creating water vapours, that will be causing more green house gases then CO2 could. The Current Oxygen levels are around 20.9%, this is well explained in Atmospheric Oxygen, Giant Paleozoic Insects and the Evolution of Aerial Locomotor Performance by R. Dudley, JExB, show a high of about 35% just before the beginning of the Permian, with a rapid decline to a low of about 13-14% near the beginning of the Triassic, then a small spike at about 17% in mid Triassic, another drop to about 14-15% early in the Jurassic, a sudden climb to about 21% by mid-Jurassic, then a gentle climb to about 26% early in the Tertiary, and a rather constant, steady decline to the present “20.9%.”Even now, we are not necessarily assured of a more-than-20-per cent oxygen level in the air at all times.
We have been losing oxygen levels due to the burning of Fossil fuels, especially Goal and Oil. This is a serious issue since we used to have 21.4% oxygen only a century ago. Should the oxygen level fall down below 19% then we would suffocate, and this could very well happen since Oxygen levels are still decreasing today, and still due to fusil fuel burning.
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