doom's Journal: A new continent of garbage forming in the North Pacific?

This San Francisco Chronicle story: Continent-size toxic stew of plastic trash fouling swath of Pacific Ocean, discusses "the so-called Great Pacific Garbage Patch - a heap of debris floating in the Pacific that's twice the size of Texas, according to marine biologists. The enormous stew of trash - which consists of 80 percent plastics and weighs some 3.5 million tons, say oceanographers - floats where few people ever travel, in a no-man's land between San Francisco and Hawaii."

But according to the wikipedia article on North Pacific Gyre, some details of this are in error: "Some sources[2] have incorrectly reported that there is a 'floating continent' of debris that is roughly twice the size of Texas, however no scientific investigation, including Moore's, has verified this." The Chronicle was using the terms "marine biologists" and "oceanographers" very loosely: this is not a finding that's been confirmed by any degree-holding scientists.

I fear I may have been taken on this one

[doom]

I first saw this story over at Bill Weinberg's WW4 Report [ww4report.com] site, and despite a few reservations about the sources, as I did various websearches on the subject I gradually started believing it. It took a tip-off from the Wikipedia article on the "North Pacific Gyre" to convince me there were problems here... Here's my current conclusions on the subject: in the form of a comment over at Weinberg's site [ww4report.com].

I don't know what conclusions there are that can be drawn from this... one is "google ain't that great": m