Macleod SawyerAug 1, 2023
Sheril Kirshenbaum

The extreme heat has devastated corals. As a former marine scientist, this is a truly heartbreaking read:

“The coral didn’t even have a chance to bleach, it just died. It just felt like, ‘Oh my God, we’re in the apocalypse.’ What’s happening?”

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/31/climate/coral-reefs-heat-florida-ocean-temperatures.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

“Demand #climate action right now. Not in a year, not tomorrow, right now. Actually yesterday.”

Florida’s Record-Breaking Sea Temperatures Are Forcing Coral to Move Ashore

Teams dedicated to ocean restoration are urgently moving samples to tanks on land as a marine heat wave devastates entire reefs.

The New York Times
Jul 31, 2023 at 11:25pmMetatext
Show threadDeterioratedStuccoJul 31, 2023
@Sheril
I am told that large-scale coral extinction is one of the key markers in the fossil record of a mass extinction.
Show threadDagnabbit, Pascaline! 💥Aug 1, 2023
@Sheril I am crushed, only two weeks ago scientists were sounding the alarm for this, one said she was 'sweating under water': that's how warm the water was. And still people don't get it, like Rishi Sunak, who allows renewed oil drilling in the North Sea. It is all so bad.
Show threaddana Aug 1, 2023
@Sheril Probably past time to stop all jet-based transport. How do we get from here to there?
Show threadMark EvansAug 1, 2023
@Sheril this is devastating.
Show threadRay HayesAug 1, 2023
@Sheril What's really sad is that there are people that love the warmer water even though it's killing the ocean. We spent a 3 day weekend in Miami Beach about a month ago and the wife just loved the warm water. It's now her favorite beach. I blistered the bottoms of my feet walking on the sand until I realized no one was walking barefooted except me.
Show threadSanjay ThakurAug 1, 2023
@Sheril Very sad to see such disastrous environmental damage with no sense of urgency despite the fact that action of tomorrow deserved attention to be completed yesterday.Movement towards protecting environmental damage is just too slow and we need another Covid moment to react as human brain and human community wired for procrastination unless there is threat of survival staring right on the face.
Show threadChalk Outline HieroglyphAug 1, 2023

@Sheril

I remember diving in The Keys when I was a kid. This is dreadful.

And because we are in an El Nino cycle, I believe I read that 2024 is likely to be even hotter in the region, regardless of what we do.

I hate being negative, but I feel that the ecological crash is already guaranteed regardless of what we manage to get corporations and denialists to do to modify their behavior. The question isn't will it crash, but what will be left afterward.
Earth will go on... humanity has no such guarantee.

Show threadPirateJoieAug 1, 2023
@Sheril How can people continue to be so blind to what we’re doing to this, our one and only planet? It’s as if they believe the consequences won’t affect them, too.
Show threadnatriumchlorideAug 1, 2023
@Sheril this really hurts to read 😭 something about corals devastation gets me feeling really hurt