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Patzert + Nielsen + NYT dot earth = This

By Jeremy Rosenberg
March 22, 2009
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TTLA posted on March 21 these springtime tidings from JPL oceanographer Bill Patzert. The post happily included material from here.

Today, TTLA illustrator Richard Nielsen keeps the conversation going with a new illustration, above.

From the nyt.com and a Patzert email, below is his complete tuna tale:

Ode to Charlie Tuna Power plants pump out mercury, Winds and rain send it over seas, Phytoplankton munch mercury, and Zooplankton feast, accumulating more. Small fish continue mercury banquet, And so on to Frankenstein Charlie Tuna, Our mercury monster. Had your brain-destroying fix today? Not yet? ·well head for your sushi bar For a concentrated dose of mercury-laced Charlie. Hey, what's a little forgetfulness and depression? Get the last California roll ... adios Charlie. Sushi, the fast track to extinction ... and senility."

Illustration copyright and courtesy Richard Nielsen 2009

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