Jellyfish Burger: the delicious new global warming snack of champions
Posted by holly on 07 Apr 2009 | Tagged as: Chesapeake Bay, climate change, global warming
One of the bonus side effects of global warming is that warming water is super hospitable to jellyfish. This will have impacts in the Chesapeake Bay as well – more open seas as marsh lands floods, along with warmer temperatures and dead zones caused by algae blooms all mean more jellyfish.
The fate of the crab cake sandwich that you love so much? Well, since blue crabs are in trouble due to loss of habitat, we’re going to have to replace them with the squishier and potentially less delicious jellyfish burger, like this one, created by digital artist Dave Beck and marine scientist Jennifer Jacquet. Maybe it will taste ok with some Old Bay…
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5 Comments »
on 07 Apr 2009 at 8:07 pm 1.Walter said …
Old Bay makes everything taste better, even jellyfish.
on 07 Apr 2009 at 8:57 pm 2.susannamurley said …
I love this image!
on 07 Apr 2009 at 10:28 pm 3.hollyg said …
Oh, and by the way… here's another jellyfish hazard, coming our way with more global warming. The giant kind: http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2006/01/0...
on 08 Apr 2009 at 6:50 pm 4.susannamurley said …
on 10 Apr 2009 at 5:13 am 5.Mark Smith said …
This is really cool stuff. It’s an amazing article. Looking forward to a very virtual and automated 2009.
Thanks,
Mark Smith(http://www.healthinsuranceinfo.org/)