Crabs Are Getting Bigger
OK, I admit this is a bit of a stretch. But we need a laugh break, don’t we folks?
So the crabs getting bigger is indeed something that’s happening. A Washington Post story from 2013 describes a wild scene in which researchers pumped a tank of water full of carbon dioxide, and then dropped some crabs and oysters in:
It was like watching lions tear apart lambs. The crabs scurried from their side of the tanks, banged on the shells of the traumatized oysters, pried them open with a claw in a way similar to what humans do with a knife at restaurants and gobbled them down.
Yikes.
Weird, yes. But I include this because, improbably, this small line of research is promoted by climate deniers to show climate change is good, actually. (I wish I was joking.) Anyways, you’ll have plenty of time to enjoy your jumbo-sized crabs in 2200 while waiting in your cave for the Sun to get low enough and the heat to subside so that you can go forage for berries in February. That is, assuming they haven’t been chock full of a potent neurotoxin that’s becoming more common in warming waters.
