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Sheril Kirshenbaum Jul 31, 2023

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

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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.