Comments on: Hurricanes and the Color of the Oceans http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/science/2010/08/hurricanes-and-the-color-of-the-oceans/ Ideas, innovations and discoveries from the world of science Wed, 22 May 2013 18:43:44 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4 By: WilliamB http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/science/2010/08/hurricanes-and-the-color-of-the-oceans/comment-page-1/#comment-2306 WilliamB Tue, 17 Aug 2010 01:34:27 +0000 http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/science/?p=4546#comment-2306 Which leads to another reason not to over-fertilize, be it your front lawn or the back nine or the 9000 agricultural acres. Over-fertilization -> excessive nitrogen run-off -> excess nitrogen in U.S. oceans (especially the Gulf of Mexico) -> algae blooms -> more opaque water -> warmer surface temps -> more storms. (This makes sense to me, based on an interested layman's reading of the science. If I'm wrong feel free to tell me why.) Which leads to another reason not to over-fertilize, be it your front lawn or the back nine or the 9000 agricultural acres. Over-fertilization -> excessive nitrogen run-off -> excess nitrogen in U.S. oceans (especially the Gulf of Mexico) -> algae blooms -> more opaque water -> warmer surface temps -> more storms.

(This makes sense to me, based on an interested layman’s reading of the science. If I’m wrong feel free to tell me why.)

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