The Ring of Fire and The North Pacific Gyre

By John Ballard

Been thinking about recent seismic activity resulting in tsunamis and flooding around the Pacific Ring of Fire.
Sea levels are rising at the rate of a centimeter every five years.
Question: How much weight does one centimeter add to the weight of the Pacific Ocean?
By the way, the amount of garbage out there is now bigger than Texas. A hundred million tons and growing, maybe?
All that added weight might be enough to disturb the ring of fire, no?
Just wondering...
Here's a fun video for your viewing pleasure.

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When I was learning about wine one of the principles involved has to do with alcohol content as related to the amount of sugar. Yeast is a living organism that consumes sugar and creates alcohol as a waste product.

But one of the principles of life is that no organism can live in its own waste. That's why humans die in closed spaces when all the oxygen is replaced by Carbon Dioxide.

And that's why some wines are sweet and others are called dry. In the case of dry wines the yeast runs out of sugar and dies of starvation. But in the case of sweet wines the yeast is killed when a toxic level of alcohol is reached before all the sugar is gone, leaving enough sugar to make the wine sweet. (The word dry indicates the wine is not sweet but not necessarily sour or bitter either. It's simply not sweet.)

Sweet wines tend to have a bit higher alcohol content -- twelve to fourteen percent -- because yeast can survive past the starvation level before waste eventually kills off the colony.

I wonder how much waste humanity can survive before it reaches toxicity?

Earthquakes, volcanoes, floods and tsunamis may be Nature's way of complaining.