‘Millions of tons of ocean plastic have gone missing’
5th July 2014
For a decade or more, scientists have assumed our seas carry millions of tons of plastic, much of which should be floating in open water, forming vast midocean “gyres” — islands of man-made mess such as the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. But according to a new study, something more worrying is happening to 99 percent of the ocean’s plastic: it’s disappearing.
Think about that for a second: Because an actual scientific study can’t find all the plastic that ‘scientists have assumed’ exist in the seas, it must have gone missing somehow. Oh noes!
I am reminded of the Calvin and Hobbes cartoon where Calvin puts a couple slices of bread in a toaster, waits, and shows Hobbes the resulting toast. Hobbes looks carefully at the toaster: “Wow. Where does the bread go?” and Calvin responds “Beats me. Isn’t that strange?”
These are the people who believe in Global Warming. Be very afraid.