Global Warming Blamed For Recent Shark Attacks - With “Jaws” Capt. Quint Death Scene
You knew it was coming didn’t you? Well, I sort of expected to hear this. I spent a lot of time as a kid and teenager diving and fishing in the Pacific. My teen idol was a guy named Jacques Cousteau.
Anyone remember him? I had seriously considered becoming a Marine Biologist because of him.
Then Jaws came out and my friends and I didn’t go in the ocean for at least two months, I swear.
Ended up in the Coast Guard…patrolling the Bering Sea. No sharks up there, the water is 34 degrees.
But you just knew some guy with some letters after his name, more than likely on staff at a University near areas with large beaches loaded with tourists, was going to come out and blame Global Warming for the attacks.
From the Guardian:
Three decades have passed since the movie Jaws sent terrified bathers scrambling out of the ocean. But as any beach lifeguard knows, there’s still nothing like a gory shark attack to stoke public hysteria and paranoia.
Two deaths in the waters off California and Mexico last week and a spate of shark-inflicted injuries to surfers off Florida’s Atlantic coast have left beachgoers seeking an explanation for a sudden surge in the number of strikes.
In the first four months of this year, there were four fatal shark attacks worldwide, compared with one in the whole of 2007, according to the International Shark Attack File at the Florida Museum of Natural History in Gainesville.
‘The one thing that’s affecting shark attacks more than anything else is human activity,’ said Dr George Burgess of Florida University, a shark expert who maintains the database. ‘As the population continues to rise, so does the number of people in the water for recreation. And as long as we have an increase in human hours in the water, we will have an increase in shark bites.’
Some experts suggest that an abundance of seals has attracted high numbers of sharks, while others believe that overfishing has hit their food chain. ‘I’m not saying it doesn’t happen, but it’s a convenient excuse,’ Burgess said. Another contributory factor to the location of shark attacks could be global warming and rising sea temperatures. ‘You’ll find that some species will begin to appear in places they didn’t in the past with some regularity,’ he said.
Read the full article in The Guardian here.
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I wish chicken-little would just STFU. Global Warming is bunk. The theory has been disproved ad nauseum.
May 3rd, 2008 at 7:12 pmIt’s not global warming anymore it’s climate change.
May 3rd, 2008 at 9:03 pmHaving less money to spent also is the result of global warming. The hoax about it, that is.
May 4th, 2008 at 3:27 amJacques Cousteau was awesome! He invented the Self-Contained Underwater Breathing Apparatus (SCUBA) tank. Somewhat ironically, he hated JAWS and told Peter Benchley that sharks were badly misrepresented by the book and film. Benchley was too deep in royalty checks to get bothered about it.
May 4th, 2008 at 5:55 amThe Global temperature has not gone up at all since 1998. That is why the hysterical left is rushing to make their agenda into laws before it becomes obvious that this is just a natural cycle that they blew up into a media monster. Shark attacks are more a function of banning seal hunting than global warming. Seals are White sharks’ main food and people sometimes get caught up in the feeding areas, which are the same as swimming areas.
May 4th, 2008 at 6:34 am