Depressing but true, like Richard Ellis's meticulously researched and sobering book, "The Empty Ocean."

And the situation is not helped when science is coopted by corporations that have only their own profits as their goal.

We've known since at least the 1970s that leaking septic systems and fertilizer runoff are primary causes of toxic algal blooms, yet Mote Marine Lab, in Sarasota, Florida, now claims that the causes are not clear, which is a baldfaced lie.

Even sadder, in the 1960s Mote was a real and highly respected scientific research lab, headed by Dr. Eugenie Clark, aka "The Shark Lady, who, along with oceanographer Dr. Sylvia Earle, was a primary inspiration for my choosing marine science as my college major.

And a depressing study it became.

I'm in the middle of preparing a post on the Southern Resident orcas of the Pacific Northwest, and as beloved as they are, I'm afraid my post will be pretty depressing as well.

Man, I wish humankind would wake the #:*/ UP!!!

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