Posted on 05/18/2024 5:13:17 AM PDT by DoodleBob
Ocean temperatures that have gone “crazy haywire” hot, especially in the Atlantic, are close to making the current global coral bleaching event the worst in history. It's so bad that scientists are hoping for a few hurricanes to cool things off.
More than three-fifths — 62.9% — of the world's coral reefs are badly hurting from a bleaching event that began last year and is continuing. That's nearing the record of 65.7% in 2017, when from 2009 to 2017 about one-seventh of the world's coral died, said Derek Manzello, coordinator of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Coral Reef Watch Program.
When water gets too hot, coral, which are living creatures, bleach and sometimes die.
In the Atlantic, off the Florida coast and in the Caribbean, about 99.7% of the coral reefs have been hit with "very very severe'' losses in staghorn and elkhorn species, Manzello said Thursday in NOAA's monthly climate briefing. Sixty-two countries are seeing damaged coral, with Thailand shutting off a tourist-laden island to try to save the coral there.
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“This wouldn't be happening without climate change. …But on top of that are changes in El Nino, the reverse of La Nina and a natural warming of ocean waters; reduced sulfur pollution from ships and an undersea volcano eruption.
Former top NASA climate scientist James Hansen said “acceleration of global warming is now hard to deny" in a new analysis and statement Thursday.
For coral, it comes down to how hot the water is and “things have just gone crazy haywire with ocean temperatures in the last year,” Manzello said. He said hurricanes bring up cool water from deep and benefit coral reefs if they don't hit them directly.
(Excerpt) Read more at msn.com ...
https://www.noaa.gov/media-advisory/noaa-monthly-us-global-climate-report-and-coral-bleaching-update-august-17
Get ready for a slew of bleaching stories this spring and summer.
My dad brought some back from his WWII gig...White as snow...I bet there’s a lot of guessing going on....because not too long ago, they found a huge mass glowing brightly that they had no record of.
That undersea volcano event was widely underreported. The worldwide impact has been enormous.
“Experts say”
So a Soros guy with an email domain and a laptop released a press release for the msm to cut and paste.
is this related to the bubble-headed bleach blonde who comes on at 5? hope there wasn’t another plane crash...can’t stand that gleam in her eye.
What about the “rising sea level”? If those stories were factual, no coral reefs would be bleaching anywhere? Or are these bleaching stories just another crock; dreamed up by the quacks who’ve been lying to us about everything else? Asking for a friend.
The gaslighting continues.
Remember when the Great Barrier Reef was disappearing? Years later, it had actually gotten bigger.
exspurts
“Experts say”.
Went snorkeling in the Great Barrier Reef 7 years ago and all of the local hippy boat and divers told us it’s 100 percent natural and happens in regular cycles.
No mention of raw sewage releases which does the same thing.
It is all a lie. There is no global warming.
That, as they say, is a BINGO!
Unfortunately, the complex global effects of the event are being used in media and government propaganda as evidence of AGW by the faithful in the church of global warmingism, as are cyclic variations in winter, summer, false springs, indian summers, “killer” storms, tornadoes, hurricanes and lack of storms, tornadoes and hurricanes.
No matter the weather, the Church faithful find a way to weaponize it against humanity.
...”CRAZY”!
They could tell us that an asteroid is going to collide with Earth in a few days and it would be hard to believe them.
Ol’ Joe Bastardi’s sea bed volcanic heating theory will one day be recognized as one of the greatest influencers of our weather.
That's what dead coal looks like.
Pure B.S.
Fear mongering from tyrants to scare people into submission.
Where do we sign away our rights as human beings to save the coral??? And to which group of human beings do we sign them away to???
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