{"id":6709,"date":"2016-06-02T07:41:21","date_gmt":"2016-06-02T15:41:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/?p=6709"},"modified":"2016-06-02T08:29:08","modified_gmt":"2016-06-02T16:29:08","slug":"i-for-one-welcome-our-new","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/?p=6709","title":{"rendered":"I, for One, Welcome Our New…"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’d just like to say that, when you read Annalee Newitz<\/a> writing<\/p>\n

“If trends continue, cephalopods may be among the species who are poised to survive a mass extinction in the oceans, leading to a future marine ecosystem ruled by tentacles.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\u2014or Cory Doctorow<\/a> warning that\u2014<\/p>\n

“To imagine the ocean of the future: picture a writhing mass of unkillable tentacles, forever.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\u2014or even Doubleday et al<\/em><\/a> (whose research inspired the preceding dire warnings) opining more calmly that\u2014<\/p>\n

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From Doubleday et al<\/i> 2016.<\/p><\/div>\n

“…the proliferation of cephalopod populations has been driven by large-scale processes that are common across a broad range of marine environments and facilitated by biological characteristics common to all cephalopods. … anthropogenic climate change, especially ocean warming, [is] a plausible driver of the observed increase. … Further, it has been hypothesised that the global depletion of fish stocks, together with the potential release of cephalopods from predation and competition pressure, could be driving the growth in cephalopod populations.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I’d just like to point out that I called it twelve years ago, in \u03b2ehemoth<\/em>:<\/p>\n

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Note the t-shirt.<\/p><\/div>\n

To Clarke this is the scariest part of the ocean, the half-lit midwater depths where real<\/em> squid roam: boneless tentacled monsters thirty meters long, their brains as cold and quick as superconductors. They’re twice as large as they used to be, she’s been told. Five times more abundant. Apparently it all comes down to better day care. Architeuthis <\/em>larvae grow faster in the warming seas, their numbers unconstrained by predators long since fished out of existence.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Now.\u00a0 Aren’t you ashamed none of you read the damn book?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’d just like to say that, when you read Annalee Newitz writing “If trends continue, cephalopods may be among the species who are poised to survive a mass extinction in the oceans, leading to a future marine ecosystem ruled by tentacles.” \u2014or Cory Doctorow warning that\u2014 “To imagine the ocean of the future: picture a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,22,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6709","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biology","category-marine","category-rifters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6709","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6709"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6709\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6728,"href":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6709\/revisions\/6728"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}