#Florida’s Record-Breaking Sea Temperatures Affecting #Coral

Story by Catrin Einhorn and Jason Gulley, July 31, 2023

"With #climateChange ravaging Florida’s beloved reef, people who’ve devoted their careers to restoring coral in the sea are now racing to get it out of the water, to tanks on land. They’re pushing through feelings of grief and fear over the future to save what genetic material and young corals they can. But in the background, an existential question looms: How can they restore reefs if the ocean is getting too hot for coral to live there?

"While marine #heatwaves occur naturally, the eye-popping sea temperatures recorded off the Keys this month (one reading hit 101 degrees Fahrenheit, or just over 38 Celsius) have been made worse by global warming, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. The world’s oceans have absorbed 90% of the additional heat unleashed by people burning fossil fuels and razing forests. Currently, about 44% of the #global #ocean is in a #heatwave.

"The mass coral bleaching happening throughout the Keys is the most severe in the state’s history, Derek Manzello, the coordinator of NOAA’s Coral Reef Watch program, said. Surveys over the next few months are needed to understand how much coral has died.

"'I fear for the worst,' he said."

Read more:
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/florida-s-record-breaking-sea-temperatures-are-forcing-coral-to-move-ashore/ar-AA1eBobC?ocid=winp1taskbar&cvid=db377e9d989448b28fc54a44b522a0f0&ei=19

#Coral #OceanTemperatures #OceanHeating #ClimateGrief #CoralBleaching #Dieoff #Extinction #ExtremeHeat #WaterIsLife

Mass #dieoff of #penguins off the coast of #Uruguay... "Nearly 2,000 dead penguins were found in ten days on the eastern coasts of Uruguay. The cause of this carnage, which remains unexplained, does not seem to be avian flu, local authorities said....90% are young specimens that arrive without fat reserves and with an empty stomach." #oceans #marine https://www.rtbf.be/article/pres-de-2000-manchots-retrouves-morts-en-10-jours-sur-les-cotes-de-luruguay-11231147

RawStory (AFP): Mexico says mass bird die-off 'most probably' due to Pacific warming

https://www.rawstory.com/bank/mexico-says-mass-bird-die-off-most-probably-due-to-pacific-warming/

via @knittingknots2

#birds #climate change #dieoff #Mexico #Pacific

This would be GREAT for your garden (aside from smelling like millions of dead #fish for years) #Texas #Fish #Dieoff https://www.chron.com/life/wildlife/article/dead-fish-texas-gulf-coast-18144224.php

This is all quite normal, I am sure. #Texas #fish #dieoff CBS: Beach crews spent the weekend clearing up thousands of dead fish along the Texas Gulf Coast, shore officials said. The fish began washing up on Friday because of "a low dissolved oxygen event" https://www.cbsnews.com/news/thousands-dead-fish-texas-gulf-coast-quintana-beach-oxygen/

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/05/climate/american-kestrel.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare #kestrels #dieOff #anthropocene

This idea that's been gaining currency that "#populationcollapse" due to declining birth rates is a "problem," is beyond perverse.

#Overpopulation remains near the top of the list of world crises. It's only overshadowed by #ClimateChange which is partially the *result* of past overpopulation.

We're deeply into population #overshoot in terms of having crashed through about 5 of the 9 #planetary boundaries. So yes, there will be a population collapse and it won't just be from declining birth rates.

It's likely to be far more unpleasant than that--competition over scarce resources leading to war, mass migrations, and famines.

#dieoff is the appropriate term. And it applies to humans just as any other species that's overfilled its ecological niche.

It would be possible for Earth to support 10 billion or more people, if we lived more sustainably. But that's way easier said than done. People want what they want and they will kill and die to get it. To say nothing about the devastating impacts of global income inequality.

We should be so lucky, as to "only" face a crisis of a greying population and not enough young people. If that were the case, #automation would be able to handle any worker shortages, provided we put in place the wealth redistribution and basic income needed to offset the decline of compensated labor.

What's actually likely to happen is we'll continue to make all the wrong decisions due to the #fascist / #nationalistic political insanity that's sweeping the globe.

We're out of runway to keep making repeated bad decisions, without consequences that will be terribly disruptive to #civilization as we once knew it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planetary_boundaries

@anamckellar Here's the article, posted by the author #JenniRussell in a very informative thread/discussion relayed on #Nitter - shocking reading. The #UK "will poison food chains forever unless we change..."
https://nitter.net/jennirsl/status/1612873215566569473

#MarinePollution #Teesside #ecocide
#fisheries #DieOff #crabs #lobsters #seals #seabirds
#toxic #IndustrialWaste #dredging #toxin #pyridine
#DEFRA #Coffey #Houchen #UKpolitics
#EnvironmentalDisaster #FoodChain
@JugglingWithEggs

A #graveyard of #giant #marine #reptile #fossils was #assumed to be the #site of a #massive #dieoff. It may have actually been a #maternity #ward #Nevada #ichthyosaur #paleontogy

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/fossil-site-nevada-huge-marine-reptiles-maternity-ward-ichthyosaur/#app

blink and you'll miss it. #postholocene #massextinctionevent #overshoot #dieoff #eattherich #ecosocialism #collapse

Tree Die-Off at Fellsmere Park.... https://youtu.be/ltU2YIIKYX0
#Geoengineering #Tree #Dieoff #Chemtrails #SAI #Depopulation #Eugenics #SoftKill #Terraformation #Ecocide #EcoWar #BiosphereCollapse #AI #Transhumanism #NWO Planned#MassExtinction Ruling#Psychopaths #NegativeET #Alien

#Pollution event could be the reason for thousands of dead #animals washing up on beaches #oceanhealth #dieoff

https://www.naturalnews.com/2021-10-28-dead-sea-creatures-wash-up-uk-beaches.html

#Pollution event could be the reason for thousands of dead #animals washing up on beaches #oceanhealth #dieoff

https://newstarget.com/2021-10-28-dead-sea-creatures-wash-up-uk-beaches.html