Yet another horror/scifi fable brought to you by Warmists who refuse to give up their own big carbon lifestyles
(Climate Progress) Add “losing fear of predators†to the long list of impacts acidifying oceans could have on fish and other marine life.
A new study published in Nature Climate Change has found that elevated CO2 levels in marine waters make reef fish attracted to the smell of their predators, rather than being repelled. Researchers looked at multiple species of reef fish living near natural volcanic CO2 seeps in Papua New Guinea, an environment the study says is acidified to levels comparable to projections of what the entire ocean’s acid content will be in the next 100 years. They compared the behavior of the fish living in the acidified environment to fish in nearby, less acidified reefs, and found that, while fish in the nearby control reefs avoided water streams that contained predator odor, fish from the acidified reef spent 90 percent of their time in water streams that smelled of their predators.
I have to wonder: what did fish do during the majority of history when ocean temps and CO2 levels were higher than today? But, you know, the Warmists have to continue their hysteria in order to push their cult.
