https://www.cbsnews.com/news/coral-reef-mortality-florida-ocean-temperatures/
Almost every single coral in a coral reef nursery in the Florida Keys has died as NOAA raises its coral bleaching warning system to the highest level possible for the area.
You’d think that would be true but all the Florida government is doing at the moment is saying shit like “slavery benefit black people”. They’re are still very much fucking around
Unfortunately, the people who did the fucking around aren't actually finding out, because they're still insisting climate change isn't real. DeSantis claimed climate change was "politicization of weather" and won't do anything.
It feels like the earth said, 'well, the pandemic didnt kill you, lets turn up the heat. Literally.'
I used to live in Florida 20 years ago. I also went scuba diving off the keys. Back then it was already worrisome that water temps were getting in the upper 80s and there was some occasional bleaching. Algae move in on the dead coral skeletons.
It breaks my heart to see what’s happening now. It’s so much worse than it already was when I lived there.
It’s so much worse than it already was when I lived there.
That’s what happens when we do nothing to stop the problem. Sure the house is on fire, but everything will be fine. Twenty minutes later…. This is so much worse than it was 20 minutes ago.
Yep. We rang the alarm bells 20 years ago. No one listened. I left the state, but the fact that this was going to happen was as plain as the nose on your face. People just didn’t want to see.
People don’t want to do the hard work that it will take to live by a new paradigm. It will break the economy for years, but it’ll likely take that to change things. Eventually, we could build back something more in tune with our ecosystem.
I don’t believe it would break the economy. I think it would open up the world to new economic opportunities. But, people like the Koch’s want to keep a stranglehold on what they got and they’re willing to pump money into propaganda along with idiots like Murdoch. Why convince the dumb population to change when you can make them angry and rob them blind.
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California specific, but it's a cool program so I'm including it:
Thank you for this, it's sad and depressing news like this that makes me want to make a difference
I'm really hoping we can do something about that coral reef we found that is resistant to heat and bleaching and learn from it or maybe even somehow use it to genetically help the other reefs
Jesus christ no. What we need to do is stop flying, stop driving cars, stop eating meat and fish and dumping waste in the ocean... We cannot bioengineering all the coral. Being open to new technology to save us, at some point just resembles waiting for Jesus to rapture you on doomsday.
Um...i don't know what i said made you think i was a fossil fuel person. I agree completely. But we are going to need to help the corals that have died off and are struggling even if we stop all fossil fuels today. That is what i was getting at. I guess cause of other assholes, i can see why you'd assume that im a "just out techno climate change", but I'm not.
Fixing our emissions problem absolutely is the most important part, but technology for ecology restoration is ALSO very important. There are things (quite possibly the survival of many species of coral) that are already gone or past the point of no return, that are necessary to fix or replace to prevent further collapse of ecosystems. And don't downplay the effort and work done by biologists and ecologists to save individual species, it is difficult and often underappreciated.