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© The Independent, UK
Now, apparently, fish are shrinking, thanks to falling oxygen levels in the seas:
By 2050, the size of fish could shrink by 10 - 20 per cent, Dr William Cheung, a marine ecologist at the University of British Columbia, Canada, forecast.Some might say the shrinking Haddock might have more to do with over-fishing.
Dr Cheung, who gave a keynote address at the 50th Anniversary Symposium of the Fisheries Society of the British Isles at Exeter University this week, said some fish in the North Sea, including haddock, were already getting smaller.
He predicted the trend would continue with common species such as cod shrinking by up to a fifth within our lifetime.Get ready for "child's portions" of fish and chips. No really, that's the headline, not the punchline.
© Malaga Bay
I came to that conclusion because this delightful dentist dabbled in the precautionary principle.
He argued:
All teeth should be extracted because eventually they could cause pain and suffering.
Strangely enough, this particular self-enlightened "professional" never mentioned the pecuniary principle.
The pecuniary principle is particularly popular with "professionals" and "experts".
For example:
Nine out of Ten British dentists have expressed a preference for performing procedures that maximise their income for the least effort.
These self-enlightened "professionals" specialise in wallet welfare not patient welfare i.e. you get what you're given - not what you need.
This explains why Britain has a reputation for being a Bad Teeth Nation.
© YouTube/Adapt 2030 (screen capture)
© ibtimes.co.uk
By midday (0900 GMT), the city's emergency services had provided assistance to around 200 people who felt unwell, emergency services spokeswoman Katia Sungarska said.
She advised residents not to leave the house during the day and not to call the emergency services except in cases of urgency in order to allow ambulances to reach those in serious need.
Sofia has for years suffered from a chronic shortage of ambulances, with a fleet of just 25 vehicles serving a city of around two million people.
The red alert for extreme heat was activated on Saturday in 17 regions across the country for the first time this summer.
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Temperatures in Ahvaz (pictured, in Iran have reached 129F (53.7C) making it the hottest day in the country's history and one of the highest ever in the world
The scorching conditions were recorded in the city of Ahvaz in Iran's south west on Thursday, according to a French meteorologist.
It was a June record for Asia and came close to the world record 134F (56.6C) measured in Death Valley, California, on July 10, 1913.
The extreme high temperatures were highlighted by Etienne Kapikian, a meteorologist with the French national weather service Meteo France.
© NASA
The sun's magnetic field weakens during solar minimums, thus providing less shielding to the earth. With our protective shield thus weakened, the number of galactic cosmic rays that reach the earth's upper atmosphere increases.
The video is from NASA.
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© Bureau of Land ManagementA helicopter drops water via a bucket system on lightning-caused fire burning near Malad.
The 6-square-mile (16-sq. kilometer) blaze temporarily closed Interstate 84 on Tuesday but traffic resumed a few hours later. "The fire jumped into the median," Idaho State Police spokesman Tim Marsano said. The fire was burning about 11 miles (18 kilometers) from Grandview and was expected to be controlled later Wednesday.
