Colby

breadandcircuses , 2 months ago to random

When ocean waters become too warm, causing coral reefs to bleach and die, that imperils the entire marine food web — and ultimately a food chain that helps to feed eight billion people.

🚨 We are in a planetary climate emergency. 🚨

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Global heating has pushed the world’s coral reefs to a fourth planet-wide mass bleaching event that is on track to be the most extensive on record, US government scientists have confirmed.

Some 54% of ocean waters containing coral reefs have experienced heat stress high enough to cause bleaching, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Coral Reef Watch said.

The first global bleaching event happened in 1998 with 20% of the ocean’s reef corals exposed to a level of heat stress high enough to cause bleaching. The second event, in 2010, saw 35% reaching that threshold, and the third from 2014 to 2017 peaked at 56%.

Dr Derek Manzello, the Coral Reef Watch director, told the Guardian the current bleaching was likely to surpass the previous most widespread event soon “because the percentage of reef areas experiencing bleaching-level heat stress has been increasing by roughly 1% per week”.

Manzello said global heating had combined with a global El Niño to push up sea surface temperatures. He said predictions made by scientists decades ago about the fate of corals in a warming world were now coming to pass.

“The bottom line is that as coral reefs experience more frequent and severe bleaching events, the time they have to recover is becoming shorter and shorter. Current climate models suggest that every reef on planet Earth will experience severe, annual bleaching sometime between 2040 and 2050.”

Prof Ove Hoegh-Guldberg, a pioneer of coral research who was among the first to link bleaching to global heating, said: “It’s a shock. We clearly have to prevent governments from investing in fossil fuels, or we won’t have a chance in hell to save reefs.”

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FULL ARTICLE -- https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/apr/15/great-barrier-reef-coral-bleaching-global-heating

#Science #Environment #Climate #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #ClimateEmergency

Colby , 2 months ago

@breadandcircuses I appreciate it’s not a solution and agree we’re in a crisis, but I’m curious: are corals setting up new homes in parts of the ocean that used to be too cold for them?

GottaLaff , 2 months ago to random

Grrr. My thread got messed up again. I absolutely hate using my phone for live posting

Colby , 2 months ago

@GottaLaff it is imperfect but still super helpful. Just takes a tiny bit of work to see it all. Thank you!

exador23 , 3 months ago to random

Displeasure with Biden's handling of Hamas-Israel war was on display at closed-door White House meeting https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/white-house/displeasure-bidens-handling-hamas-israel-war-was-display-closed-door-w-rcna146244

Just five minutes into a meeting with President Joe Biden, a Palestinian American doctor who has treated gravely injured patients in Gaza couldn’t bear to stay, so he left.

Dr. Ahmad, who specializes in emergency medicine, recalled getting emotional when talking about the many Palestinians he cared for, describing the scale of death in the 6mos since the war began.

Ahmad stressed that he wanted “to let the administration feel the way that we felt this past six months and kind of get up and walk away from them.”

Colby , 3 months ago

@mikeblake yes, but sadly that ship has sailed. I thought I’d vote for him proudly. Now I’ll vote for him as the lesser of two evils

flexghost , 3 months ago to random

The teens of america are uniting!

To end war? No

To solve world hunger? Nope

To stop congress from banning TikTok? Yep

After the spyware… (ahem) after the app supplied users with numbers to call, one teen threatened “I promise you do not ban TikTok. If you want a January 6th riot, that's what's going to happen. Don't do it”

…this, after giving their full name and address at the start of the call
(Via Politico)

And the calls keep coming

We’re about to see the wackiest uprising ever 🇺🇸

Colby , 3 months ago

@flexghost the many on here claiming FB is not as nefarious as TikTok seemingly forgot how we got a Trump presidency

GottaLaff , 3 months ago to random

Stay to the very end.

Then share like crazy.

#Biden nailed it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R6e4ruziZBI

Colby , 3 months ago

@GottaLaff democrats better find a way to counter program these people effectively or we are doomed. Many Americans are highly susceptible to disinfo.

Colby , 3 months ago

@GottaLaff the people we need to reach are not going to listen to a Biden ad. Sorry. They’re just not. We need influencers

wdlindsy , 4 months ago to random

Robert B. Hubbell notes that we've now learned that Alexander Smirnov, key witness in the Biden impeachment inquiry, lied. And we've that the Texas-based outfit claiming voter fraud happened in 2020 in Georgia lied and never had proof of such fraud.

He writes:

"The major takeaway is this: The Republican party is built on lies and sustains itself through lies. They know it. We know it."

#Republicans #lies #ConspiracyTheories
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https://roberthubbell.substack.com/p/a-watershed-moment-for-the-truth

Colby , 4 months ago

@wdlindsy but how do Dems fight a firehose of lies? We best come up with an answer quickly, because the lie machines will almost certainly ramp up for the election