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Why Are 50,000 Starfish Washing Up on Ireland’s Shoreline?

Nov. 15, 2012 3:06pm Liz Klimas

Just as people were confused over a couple hundred dead dolphins washing up on a Peruvian beach earlier this year, so too are the 50,000 or so dead starfish turning up on an Irish beach causing a stir.

Thousands of Starfish Seen Dead on Irish Beach Due to Extreme Weather Event

Tens of thousands of adult starfish seen washed up on an Irish beach. (Photo: Belfast Telegraph)

The Belfast Telegraph attributes the mass echinoderm death seen on the Lissadell Beach in north Co Sligo to extreme weather.

“The most likely explanation is that they were feeding on mussels but it is a little strange that none of them were attached to mussels when they were washed in,” Slingo Institute of Technology marine biologist Bill Crowe told the Telegraph.

Tim Roderick with the National Parks and Wildlife Service agreed “an exceptional storm event” was the cause.

The Telegraph reported Crowe saying he didn’t seen any other evidence, such as an algal bloom, that could have been the cause of death.

This isn’t the first time such a storm-related phenomenon of starfish death has been seen.

(H/T: Grind TV)

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ChiefGeorge
Posted on November 15, 2012 at 4:01pm
Read Hosea! Its all there! Because wickedness abounds I will sweep the birds from the air and the fish from the seas. Livestock will perish as well. We see this happening all over the world and no real explanations to keep up with the mass animal die offs. Now we are dying off by storms, hurricanes, floods, famine, tornados, pestilences and by our own hand.

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- GhostOfJefferson
  Posted on November 15, 2012 at 4:05pm
  Well, technically, animals dying in large groups is nothing new. It has rained frogs before (and ducks) in the 1700′s for example. And storms etc. are not uncommon at all and have frequently wiped out towns across history.
  
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- revelation2012
  Posted on November 15, 2012 at 4:26pm
  I’ve researched – I don’t talk about because no one seems interested
  
  has caused me many sleepless nights – and ‘tears’ when I try to view the heavens
  
  and cant see the ‘stars’ when the so called contrails spread across the evening sky,,,,
  
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- The Giver
  Posted on November 15, 2012 at 8:50pm
  Reading the Bible and finding it fascinating. Things are being revealed more now. If you read it years ago, read it again now. It will blow your mind.
  What did they do with all those starfish? Hope they were really dead since I don’t think they move much out of the water. Maybe the high tide took them back out to sea.
  Stars washing up on the shore.
  Please pray for the prisoners in North Korean Concentration ( “Work” ) Camps.
  
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- Rita_Pita
  Posted on November 16, 2012 at 6:07am
  The left blames everythng on climate change. Read fresh political commentary at: http://smallcraftadvisorychronicles.blogspot.com
  
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- Bluefish49
  Posted on November 16, 2012 at 10:46am
  I’ve seen the same thing with sand Dollars…I think nature knows when there are to many to populate an area and takes care of it her self.
  
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watashbuddyfriend
Posted on November 15, 2012 at 3:59pm
Now, who counted the 50K?

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- GhostOfJefferson
  Posted on November 15, 2012 at 4:24pm
  Seamus
  
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- Eastinfection
  Posted on November 15, 2012 at 5:43pm
  No, unfortunately Seamus had a case of the “wobbly boot” and Padraig had to fill in.
  
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- applsfan
  Posted on November 15, 2012 at 9:56pm
  ACOrn
  
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Metallicat
Posted on November 15, 2012 at 3:47pm
I take it as an omen to go back to Ireland. Our lucks about to run out.

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- forthepeople
  Posted on November 15, 2012 at 3:55pm
  Well its not a good sign , unless you sell dried StarFish ?
  
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Anonymous T. Irrelevant
Posted on November 15, 2012 at 3:36pm
They just got the word that Obama was re-elected.

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- rickc34
  Posted on November 15, 2012 at 3:44pm
  Dolphins…Deers and now starfish? Hmmmm.
  
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- NobleDar
  Posted on November 15, 2012 at 4:45pm
  Could be discarded batch of Clinton afrodesiacs. It was a stressfull campaign for the old cigar dipper!
  
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dealer@678
Posted on November 15, 2012 at 3:32pm
They Seceded

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- Eastinfection
  Posted on November 15, 2012 at 5:40pm
  You mean “Se-sea-ded”
  
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gpaOy8b8X6A
  
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Stoic one
Posted on November 15, 2012 at 3:31pm
Oh yeah! Those evil oil people have cleaned up all of those dangerous tar pits filled with yucky hydrocarbons so now liberal children are safe to roam the hinterlands.

unintended consequences…………………..

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momrules
Posted on November 15, 2012 at 3:29pm
What I want to know is what the heck are they spraying on me. I have been watching the jets streaking back and forth across my little section of East Texas leaving chem trails all over the sky.

If you don’t know what they are look it up. If you don’t believe in them you haven’t seen them yourself.

On the HAARP chemtrail map this morning most of Texas was targeted to be sprayed today. Well they were right.

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- GhostOfJefferson
  Posted on November 15, 2012 at 3:36pm
  Um, that’s ice formed from air moisture at high altitudes. It quick freezes after being expelled from the jet engine, causing contrails. You could see similar contrails on high flying bombers during WW2.
  
  So, to answer your question, you’re being chemtrailed with water and minute amounts of whatever precipitate occurs when jet fuel burns.
  
  The More You Know ™
  
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- copatriots
  Posted on November 15, 2012 at 3:40pm
  Yikes!!! Stay safe down there, Girl!
  
  I’ve been wondering when Texas was going to get targeted for revenge for not supporting Zer0. We just escaped the advance of liberalism in CO. I’m not sure how long TX will be able to fight it off.
  
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- momrules
  Posted on November 15, 2012 at 3:42pm
  Ghost I know the difference between a contrail and a chemtrail. Contrails do not stay and spread. Contrails are not usually laid in a grid pattern. As I said look it up. Or look up.
  
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- ChiefGeorge
  Posted on November 15, 2012 at 3:58pm
  Seems to be going off like crazy here in Socal skys as well. I watch the skys and notice when its being done and not. We can go for long periods of time and see very clear skys no matter what the temps are and then whammo, their getting busy crisscrossing the skys. This is weather mods!! Or something worse!
  
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- GhostOfJefferson
  Posted on November 15, 2012 at 4:04pm
  All chemicals dispersed that high would stay and spread slowly. The ice is ice, it’s not like it melts that high up (at least not quickly), it simply disperses since there is nothing causing it to bind as with clouds. How you can tell a chemical from another 20,000 feet below the “trail” is a bit puzzling. It’s a matter of altitude. At a given altitude, the contrail may disappear almost immediately, at other colder altitudes it could stay for a very long time (and spread out due to high altitude winds).
  
  Large commercial aircraft also fly across specific air corridors called Victor airways (look it up). So yes, they would grid actually. They’ve always flown like that, Victor airway routes are long, long established.
  
  The notion of “chemtrails” would require thousands and thousands of people to be in on it. Logistically keeping something like that secret is nigh impossible with that large of a participatory element. Sorry.
  
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- revelation2012
  Posted on November 15, 2012 at 4:08pm
  research! that’s what they have the majority of the population believeing
  
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- GhostOfJefferson
  Posted on November 15, 2012 at 4:14pm
  Yeah Revelation, I just wrote two paragraphs that contain more information on basic contrails than the average person is aware of I’d wager, so I doubt that the average person would be going by my explanation. More likely they don’t even care about the topic in a general sense.
  
  If you ever get some high quality flight training and apply a basic application of science and logic, and this kind of thing becomes rather easy to grasp. :)
  
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- revelation2012
  Posted on November 15, 2012 at 4:17pm
  btw ,,,, We the taxpayers are paying for the chemtrails too.,, military planes and commercial
  
  Why do You think ‘THEY’ are so HOT to TROT for GLOBAL warming ie Climate change
  
  it’s not like we don’t have enough on our plates BUT if some of us don’t get involved we won’t
  
  have to worry about having anything ON our plates – Air – Water – Soil – NWO – UN – AGENDA 21
  
  (sighs)
  
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- GhostOfJefferson
  Posted on November 15, 2012 at 4:19pm
  Yeah…I remember my first beer…
  
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- momrules
  Posted on November 15, 2012 at 4:27pm
  ChiefGeorge…….They are painting the skies here today. Interesting and scary to watch.
  
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- GhostOfJefferson
  Posted on November 15, 2012 at 4:30pm
  Um….yeah….
  
  I tried.
  
  You folks have a great day.
  
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- copatriots
  Posted on November 15, 2012 at 4:56pm
  I learned something, GHOST, as I wouldn’t know the difference between a contrail and a chemtrail from the ground or the sky. So, thanks, for your post.
  
  Whether there is any truth to the HAARP conspiracies, there is little doubt that Zer0′s hatred for conservative, white Americans make us targets since we are viewed as the enemy.
  
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- DeavonReye
  Posted on November 16, 2012 at 9:19am
  My brother is one who believes the “chem trails” conspiracy. But one needs to consider what something like that would be used for. What do you believe the “chemicals” to be? What do you believe to be their effect on humans?
  
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Maximus_Delta
Posted on November 15, 2012 at 3:27pm
Who actually sat there and counted them??

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- GhostOfJefferson
  Posted on November 15, 2012 at 4:06pm
  Probably not an Irishman, as he’d already come in seeing 3 or more of everything. Can’t expect accuracy when wearing the wee goggles o’ Guiness, lad.
  
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Maximus_Delta
Posted on November 15, 2012 at 3:26pm
It is Bush’s fault of course…

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- GhostOfJefferson
  Posted on November 15, 2012 at 4:15pm
  I believe that’s a given, Maximus.
  
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Gonzo
Posted on November 15, 2012 at 3:25pm
They were just trying to evolve, guess they weren’t quite ready for air.

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Leslie Anne
Posted on November 15, 2012 at 3:24pm
“Why Are 50,000 Starfish Washing Up on Ireland’s Shoreline?”

They renounced their American Seatizenship :)

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- GhostOfJefferson
  Posted on November 15, 2012 at 3:36pm
  Win!
  
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- White Devil
  Posted on November 15, 2012 at 3:40pm
  Well, it would be more of a win if you spelled “citizenship” correctly. But still… WIN! :)
  
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- copatriots
  Posted on November 15, 2012 at 3:59pm
  It was intentionally misspelled, DEVIL. Starfish…..”Sea”tizenship. Get it?
  
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Mainer forever
Posted on November 15, 2012 at 3:23pm
George Bushs fault.

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- The Giver
  Posted on November 15, 2012 at 8:32pm
  I knew it!
  
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Cavallo
Posted on November 15, 2012 at 3:22pm
GLOBAL WARMING. it causes everything .. the only way to stop GLOBAL WARMING is to sacrifice your freedom, liberty, and economic well being to a central authority that will tell you how you should live, eat, reproduce, and die. It is the only way. Bow before the altar~!

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GhostOfJefferson
Posted on November 15, 2012 at 3:20pm
The answer is simple. They didn’t get enough cowbell.

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- CanteenBoy
  Posted on November 15, 2012 at 7:40pm
  I have a fever that can only be cured by – coincidentally – more cowbell!
  
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Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra
Posted on November 15, 2012 at 3:19pm
It’s the 1% of the starfish world, they are trying to escape to a country that has a low corporate tax rate. Those evil, rich starfish just don’t want to pay for the 99% of the rest of the bottom feeders.

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commonsenseguy
Posted on November 15, 2012 at 3:17pm
how about someone just say hell i don’t know maybe it was because they party to hard or the same reason a bear craps in the woods { or zoo } because it is nature.

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OBUMAURMAMA
Posted on November 15, 2012 at 3:16pm
Tell Al Gore to quit swimming there.

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TooManycats
Posted on November 15, 2012 at 3:15pm
Must have been the video!

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- 4xeverything
  Posted on November 15, 2012 at 3:25pm
  …which was also George Bush’s fault.
  
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Metallicat
Posted on November 15, 2012 at 3:14pm
The souls of Irish immigrants from America, who wish they never got on the boat in the first place,seeing what America has become.

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- Oneirishman
  Posted on November 15, 2012 at 4:14pm
  Aye Laddy, Aye.
  
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commonsenseguy
Posted on November 15, 2012 at 3:14pm
they want some good old Irish whiskey before they start star gazing.

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charleyrocks
Posted on November 15, 2012 at 3:13pm
It is obvious that there is some **** going on under the water probably government experiments, it does not make sense for all of them to beach themselves including the dolphins.

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- Small World
  Posted on November 15, 2012 at 3:18pm
  Haarp !
  
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- GhostOfJefferson
  Posted on November 15, 2012 at 3:36pm
  Could be, given as the harp is the national instrument of Ireland.
  
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- revelation2012
  Posted on November 15, 2012 at 3:49pm
  Yes! (someone besides me)
  
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- revelation2012
  Posted on November 15, 2012 at 3:53pm
  not many know H.A.A.R.P….
  
  http://www.examiner.com/article/haarp-secret-weapon-for-weather-modification-electromagnetic-warfare
  
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- revelation2012
  Posted on November 15, 2012 at 4:04pm
  disturbing:
  
  http://aircrap.org/spooky-hurricane-sandy-forecast-ny-oct-1997-simulated-emergency/335806/
  
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- GhostOfJefferson
  Posted on November 15, 2012 at 4:21pm
  And of course, this can’t be a coincidence!
  
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irish_harp
  
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Mandors
Posted on November 15, 2012 at 3:11pm
It must be because they were all denied abortions.

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Small World
Posted on November 15, 2012 at 3:10pm
Revelations!

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- GhostOfJefferson
  Posted on November 15, 2012 at 3:20pm
  Ah right Chapter 88, Verse 4: “And the Lord spake and said unto those who would hear, ‘Beware thee of the porpoises and starfish that will wash ashore on the shores of a land containing a highly unnatural amount of fermented grain beverages!”
  
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copatriots
Posted on November 15, 2012 at 3:10pm
Perhaps the earth is groaning………..

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- momrules
  Posted on November 15, 2012 at 3:30pm
  More than likely right Copatriots.
  
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- HOOT_OWL
  Posted on November 20, 2012 at 12:51am
  http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2012/01/120124-solar-storm-geomagnetic-auroras-flights-sun-earth-space-science/
  
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banjarmon
Posted on November 15, 2012 at 3:08pm
Sandy did it!!

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- commonsenseguy
  Posted on November 15, 2012 at 3:20pm
  they we’re fighting over their food stamps and all of the other free stuff,but the failed to notice the time and the tide left them high and dry,just like all of these free loaders here in america who will soon be left high and dry or up the creek without a obama paddle
  
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- GhostOfJefferson
  Posted on November 15, 2012 at 3:23pm
  See? See?!? This is what happens when you don’t have an Obamaphone to call for help!
  
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