L.M. wrote:Oh that's right because only problems need solutions and climate change isn't a problem because I said so. Obviously all the trash in the ocean clumps together, not floats wherever the wind blows and ends up covering the entire world. I'm sure nothing like that is true.
Dez your insane capabilities to disprove scientists on their own subject without studying it is mind blowing. You should be the next president.
Can you prove without a doubt that climate change is a problem. Other than the fact that climate scientists had to change their models when the data showed they were wrong. But lets keep trusting what they say, because they have a proven track record.
Meteorologists have trouble providing an accurate forecast, but we should totally believe climate science.
Again, the largest trash pile in the ocean is in the Pacific and is 600,000 square miles. The one in the Atlantic ocean is only a couple hundred square miles. How much of the worlds oceans do you think would be covered in trash if we took all of the trash in the oceans and made one big floating pile? 10-20M square miles. I doubt that. I doubt it's over 1M square miles.
What is amazing is that with all the science and numbers out there, there is no actual estimate on the size it would cover. All you get is 5.25Trillion pieces of plastic trash and 4 billion plastic microfibers per square kilometer of deep ocean. Large numbers sound super horrible until you get down to what is actually being said.
The 2 liter soda bottle is roughly 13in tall and 4in wide. That gives you an area of 52 square inches. Assuming that all 5.25 Trillion pieces of plastic trash in the oceans are 2 liter soda bottles, which they aren't some may be larger, most are probably smaller. That gives you an area of 273 Trillion square inches or 68,004 square miles.
So all of the plastic bottles in the ocean is about 1/10 the size of the Pacific Garbage Patch.
Oh and the 4 billion plastic microfibers per square kilometer.
Microfiber (or microfibre) is synthetic fiber finer than one denier or decitex/thread, having a diameter of less than ten micrometres.
Assuming a 3cm length. That's 30000micrometers by 10 micrometers which gives you an area of 300000 square micrometers. Multiplied by 4 billion. 1200000000000000 square micrometers or 1200 square meters or 0.0012 square kilometers. Remember that's per square kilometer of deep ocean.
And note that for this they don't use per cubic meters (volume for you science illiterates) because the numbers would look way worse.
Science!!
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