the greatest amazon desaster!

[mike dunagan]

I am not discounting anything in the article, but the comment someone made about writing on rocks that have not been seen for 100s of year is now visible. We "written history" in the Americas does not date back far. The earth moves in cycles. If we have now found writings from 100s of years ago, does that not tell us that at one time the water level was regularly at this level?

Now, I will let everyone make guesses about what they think the environment should be like.

Horrible things are being done everywhere to the fish populations we love so much. I really hope we can save as many as possible. I for one will be taking one of my tanks and setting it up for a CARES fish. If anyone has cares fish to pass on let me know.

 

[DavidW]

I did write a long bit....then the specific hard drive that I had it stored on died before I posted it...I will need to re-edit a first copy, but I will have a blow-by-blow rebuttal of the article sometime next week...kinda long...

i hope all have a great holiday season.

 

[DavidW]

One little bit, about the photo used:

....Sr Bleher provides a photograph of a dry riverbed. He claims copyright ( from the caption) but this is not his photo, he did not shoot it and he does not own its rights. It is actually the property of Euzivaldo Queiroz who is a shooter whose work is sold worldwide by Getty images.Given the caption he used and the policy of Getty images regarding their rights (no photog or agent sells his copyright, they only sell limited or agreed use) this is intellectual property theft by Heiko Bleher and it does seem to accurately symbolize the intellectual dishonesty of this article.
The photo was part of a series of photos taken by E.Q of that region during a recent 2010 drought and was widely internationally published, notably in the UK Guardian newspaper and captioned ' boy plays with paddle' . In its way, taken out of context as it is by Bleher, it is misleading. If you see other the photos in the series you will also see and read that the Rio Negro was still flowing and in fact remained 47 feet deep, where Sr Bleher implies with this photo and the headline that the whole river has dried up.

more to come later....

 

[Miguel]

Keep it coming, David, please.

If your statement is correct, I am most astonished...

 

[Gr8KarmaSF]

I did write a long bit....then the specific hard drive that I had it stored on died before I posted it...I will need to re-edit a first copy,

 

[CLDarnell]

FYI...I finally decided to read this thread and clicked on the link the OP originally provided. My virus detection software went nuts. If you have visited the site, you may want to run a virus scan.

 

[DavidW]

Keep it coming, David, please.

If your statement is correct, I am most astonished...

Here is the link to the original Guardian article with that photo...NOTE the photo credit. Q.E.D.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/oct/26/amazon-drought-tributary-rio-negro-climate-change
The text is more informative and much less alarmist that the PFK article.


Here are some more photos in the series by the same photog and others.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/gallery/2010/oct/26/amazon-drought-brazil

 

[Miguel]

I am sure Mr. Bleher will have some sort of explantion.....

 

[DavidW]

I am sure Mr. Bleher will have some sort of explantion.....

excuse?
I think you would have to go out of your way to make and perpetuate a 'typo' like that! This is copyright act 101 stuff that any publisher knows.

 

[Chaitika]

His article was published in PFK. You would think they would verify ownership of the photos?