2 Reports on the latest ocean temperature measurements, above, and below, what it feels like for a scientist to find dire predictions coming true.
2 Reports on the latest ocean temperature measurements, above, and below, what it feels like for a scientist to find dire predictions coming true.
Apart from marine heatwaves and damage to corals and ecosystems, our oceans are gradually changing color.
“More than half of the world’s oceans have become greener in the past 20 years, probably because of global warming. The discovery, reported today in Nature1, is surprising because scientists thought they would need many more years of data before they could spot signs of climate change in the colour of the oceans.”
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-02262-9
and on top of all this the oceans are transporting health disruptive forever chemicals around our globe.
“PFAS is used in almost all industries and is found in many products such as textiles, carpets, shoes, food packaging, cosmetics, fire foam and pesticides. ”
https://phys.org/news/2023-07-alarmingly-high-pfas-populations-greenland.html
Let’s all remember than cold water is able to hold much more oxygen than warm water. Aquatic life able to swim from equatorial waters toward polar waters will do so. Life unable to swim, will die.
You won’t have to worry about home and vehicle efficiency OR payments when you lose them in a storm or flooding or wildfire. This is what’s known as a ‘self-limiting’ problem.
Monbiot today:
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/jul/15/food-systems-collapse-plutocrats-life-on-earth-climate-breakdown