Writing at Power Line, Steven Hayward posts about research that finds alarmist claims of ocean death either greatly overstated or completely false. COTTonLINE is not surprised.
The other DrC and I did a cross-Pacific cruise last year. We sailed from Los Angeles to Osaka, Japan, by way of Hawaii and Guam, with stops in Taiwan, Okinawa, and Shanghai.
Having heard about the ugly mats of indestructible plastic garbage supposedly floating on the ocean surface, I made a point of looking over the side whenever I was near the rail. Translation: several times a day for 26 days - a decent sampling of the world's biggest ocean.
In the open ocean I saw a single small piece of floating garbage exactly once in all that distance, 9000+ miles. Harbors are a different story, but not nearly as bad as you'd imagine.
