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16 April 2015 by under Climate Change
An unusual threat is looming off the Atlantic coast of Africa. Now roughly 2000 kilometres wide the mass that scientists are calling “the blob” has lingered off the coast for a year and a half and has set size records.
Fresh research published in Geophysical Research Letters has examined the causes and impacts of this anomaly, which has grown more recently.
The blob has changed water-circulation patterns, affected inland weather and reshuffled ecosystems at sea. Although scientists say the planet’s warming oceans may not be responsible for the mysterious and long-lived anomaly, some see it as an early warning of changes that might be coming to Africa in the next few decades.
Satellite imagery first alerted scientists to the strange formation in August 2013, when the roundish blob was seen over the Atlantic. Researchers don’t know what to think…
Exposing the Big Game 
Funny, at first I thought you were talking about the blob in the picture above, the one with the rifle. My mistake.
You got it, that was the joke.
Yeah, I thought that might be because I couldn’t make the connection between the blob in the picture and the blob in the Pacific. But, I did notice the blog in the picture was far more hideous.
Yeah, as much as I hate the effects of the effects of the Pacific blob, as least it doesn’t look so repulsive.