Jellyfish plague Spanish beaches (AP/CNN)

[eppur_se_muova]

Thursday, July 27, 2006; Posted: 9:31 a.m. EDT (13:31 GMT)

MADRID, Spain -- Sweltering temperatures sweeping Europe have brought a plague of jellyfish to Spain's eastern seashores, forcing holidaymakers to stay out of the sea, the Red Cross said on Thursday.

The unwelcome visitors, which can reach the size of a dinner plate, have flourished thanks to a glut of plankton brought on by higher sea temperatures and a decline in natural predators like dolphins and turtles.

The Red Cross has treated more than 10,000 jellyfish stings this summer so far in the eastern region of Catalonia, a spokesman for the organization said.

"Nearly a third of those have been in the past week," he said.
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http://www.cnn.com/2006/TECH/science/07/27/spain.jellyfish.reut/index.html

It's not cockroaches that will take over the Earth, it's jellyfish. They've popped up in the news several times in the past few weeks -- always because of in increase in temperature.

[ladjf]

1. The problem with the RW dominionist and a lot of the other

Republican thinkers is that they feel that the success of the human race has been due to their superior intellect and that perhaps they were anointed by God to rule the world. The raw facts are that Earth conditions during the past 300,000 years have allowed home sapient to adapt in ways that has allowed it to achieve success in terms of distribution and quality of life. During that time, conditions also were good for religious activities to spread and prosper.

However, vast and rapid changes are taking place that will tilt the balance against humans, in particular, those humans whose survival skills are based upon subjective and therefore invalid base values. The cognitive processes of the religious are exactly the wrong mode of thinking to be able to survive. The sad thing for us that this probable "die off" could have been postponed for hundreds of thousands of years had we not squandered our gifts of adaptability on the alter of fallacious thinking.

I have attached this post to the one about jellyfish to show the parallel. The jellyfish are thriving only because conditions are more favorable, not because they are God's chosen species or because they have superior intellect. In the end, conditions will decide which species succeed or fail. It has always been that way.