Bad:
It just will not end. We may be witnessing the complete collapse of the ecosystem. Much of [southwest Florida] now enveloped in the smell of death.
This is just one canal. People are reporting the smell up to 15 miles inland.
Sad times. Still no Mainstream Media Coverage. Please share.
Florida has an algae problem, and it’s big. This year, an overgrowth in the waters off the state’s southwestern coast is killing wildlife and making some beaches noxious.
The toxic algal bloom, known as a red tide, is not unusual. Red tides appear off the state’s coast almost every year. But this one, still going strong after roughly nine months, is the longest since 2006, when blooms that originated in 2004 finally abated after 17 months.
The blooms can poison marine animals like sea turtles and manatees, while waves and ocean spray can carry toxins into the air and cause respiratory problems in people.
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Climate change is expected to intensify the freshwater algal blooms, according to Timothy Davis, associate professor of biology at Bowling Green State University in Ohio.
“They really flourish in warm waters,” he said. Also, increased rainfall can bring more nutrients into lakes. “We’re expecting to see larger blooms that last longer and could potentially be more toxic.”
Very bad.
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A propos climate change, southern California has recently seen the highest-ever-anywhere temperature during rainfall , 119 degrees Fahrenheit (for reference, I find that 110 degrees makes for a scalding-hot bath — although of course the rain itself was not 119).
Global Mean Sea Level rise as assessed by scientific organisations:
GMSL Rates
CU: 3.3 ± 0.4 mm/yr
AVISO: 3.3 ± 0.6 mm/yr
CSIRO: 3.3 ± 0.4 mm/yr
NASA GSFC: 3.2 ± 0.4 mm/yr
NOAA: 3.2 ± 0.4 mm/yr (w/ GIA)
http://sealevel.colorado.edu/
Do the arithmetic. 3.3 ± 0.4 mm/yr (CSIRO) ~ 33mm/decade (= 3.3 cm/decade ~ 33 ± 4 cm/century ~ 330 cm/1,000 yrs: ie 3.3 metres/1,000 yrs)
~ 33 metres/10,000 yrs.
And that is without a hunk of the Antarctic’s Totten Glacier departing from the rest and sliding off the land into the sea. The Totten holds enough ice the raise sea levels worldwide “by more than 11 feet,” according to:
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/01112017/east-antarctica-totten-glacier-melting-winds-warm-ocean-sea-level-rise-study
I’m in Europe at the moment, and I just read a headline about how Switzerland is so hot that fish are dying in historic nun numbers in the Rhine’s headwaters, and are protected to die along the river’s length before the heatwave abates. Here’s the first in a Google search: https://www.google.fr/amp/www.euronews.com/amp/2018/08/02/germany-fish-are-dying-in-rivers-from-heatwave
Some Chinese hoax indeed.
Projected*
It’s too fucking hot for spellcheck.