As we wait on a deluge of rain, possibly as much rain as is usually expected in a six month period, in just two or three days, as people in various parts of Southern California - Ventura County, Sun Valley in the San Fernando Valley, and Long Beach in Southern Los Angeles County, are asked to evacuate or be prepared for flooding, I'm confident that the home I live in will not flood. However, these storms always end in pollution being rushed into the ocean. Two rivers, the San Gabriel and the Los Angeles empty into the Pacific not far from here. Rivers are the way that most plastic pollution enter the ocean. However, I also believe that cruise ships are using the ocean as a toilet and dump. I believe that the massive ships that hold thousands of passengers are responsible for killing marine animals both by dumping, by collision, and by fuel pollution.
Intense rainstorms are the result of Climate Change. Here at Siren's Link to Sea BlogSpot, I use the term Climate Change rather than Global Warming, because I'm not entirely convinced that we aren't actually moving into another Ice Age.
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