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10. Our use of fossil fuels may be the cause of this because the warming of the oceans from ....
Mon Apr 6, 2026, 05:27 AM
Monday

… human driven climate change aka global warming.* Burn fossil fuels and you get CO 2 which was
proven in 1862 in Germany to be a greenhouse gas and the now warmer oceans no longer support
the food that whales need in quantities that support whales. The same thing is happening to the
blue whales too.

Human driven climate change is also killing off the snow and king crab populations in the Bearing
Sea, lobsters in the North Atlantic, the white cedar forests in New Jersey because of the salt water
from the rising Atlantic, insects in the jungles of Costa Rica, and given time humans on the planet earth
too. The Earth will always be the third rock from the sun** but humans don’t have to be part of it.


* It could have just gotten lost too.
** except when our sun becomes a red giant

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