Because Occasionally, Science Is Like B-Movies

Scientists in Australia estimate that squid now exceed humans in terms of aggregate biomass. It's like the perfect storm of squid: overfishing and whaling plus global warming equals exponential growth . . . and we're not just talking in terms of population size. "If you increase the water temperature by even a degree it has a tremendous snowballing effect of rapidly increasing their growth rate and their ultimate body size. They get much bigger and they can mature earlier and it just accelerates everything.''