Posted on 07/11/2021 11:30:19 AM PDT by Libloather
(CNN) - The devastating heat wave that ravaged British Columbia last week is being blamed for a massive die-off of mussels, clams and other marine animals that live on the beaches of Western Canada.
Christopher Harley, a professor in the zoology department at The University of British Columbia, found countless dead mussels popped open and rotting in their shells on Sunday at Kitsilano Beach, which is a few blocks away from his Vancouver home.
Harley studies the effects of climate change on the ecology of rocky shores where clams, mussels and sea stars live, so he wanted to see how the intertidal invertebrates were faring in the record heat wave that hit the area on June 26-28.
Christopher Harley estimates that a billion mussels, clams and other animals may have died from the heat.
"I could smell that beach before I got to it, because there was already a lot of dead animals from the previous day, which was not the hottest of three," he said. "I started having a look around just on my local beach and thought, 'Oh, this, this can't be good.'"
The next day, Harley and one of his students went to Lighthouse Park in West Vancouver, which he has been visiting for more than 12 years.
"It was a catastrophe over there," he said. "There's a really extensive mussel bed that coats the shore and most of those animals had died."
Unprecedented heat
Mussels attach themselves to rocks and other surfaces and are used to being exposed to the air and sunlight during low tide, Harley said, but they generally can't survive temperatures over 100 degrees for very long.
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Is racism due to global warming, or is global warming due to racism? I’m so confused...
Some corn on the Cob.
Yes..
Trouble in Alaska? Massive oil pipeline is threatened by thawing permafrost
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They are experiencing problems along the Alaskan Pipeline due
to thawing and the support structures beginning to shift. May
not amount to much but is cause for investigation.
As am I. Let me know how it turns out. We are all in this together.
i used to live in ocean city maryland...
there was a bar just off the boardwalk called “the bearded clam”...
Self-cooking seafood? Seems more like a feature than a bug.
soft shell blue crabs? - closest thing to heaven on earth.
They are unrelated LOL.
By the way this heat wave news talks about breaking 100 year old records. So global warming was going on 100 years ago? How many auto’s were on the road in 1910’s?
Confused? Really?
Global warming is caused by using fossil fuels in personal automobiles which are owned by those exercising white privilege. Anything else I can help you understand today?
they’re good too...
i’ve got a couple of recipes for frying them...
It's true! I just triple bogeyed a par 3. Never happened before. Global Warming.
Hence the old saying, “Don’t eat shellfish during months that don’t have an R in their spelling.”
Ah that’s how you cook them , alive ,D’oh
Sad news about the billion invertebrates who died in the heat wave, still globalism has a billion more to replace them.
The MSM failed to report any of that.
Why So Much Effort to Suppress Record Cold Temperatures and Crop Losses (Youtube video - 10:40)
Wait is el nino active in the Pacific ?
The Brits have passed a law that boiling a live lobster is a crime.
(In the wild they get eaten alive by cod or other fish, but I digress.)
This is an unspeakable atrocity!
(Clutching pearls from dead oysters.)
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