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Terrifying chains of events are about to unfold
Hope you like pollinating your crops manually. I heard it’s easier with a little paint brush. Hopefully we meet the need as a species, but looking at the news it would appear it’s all doom and gloom ahead.
My great grandfather pollinated his tomatoes with q-tips when he realized there weren’t any pollinators around his porch anymore
This is the best summary I could come up with:
US government scientists have confirmed reefs in Panama, Colombia, El Salvador, Costa Rica, Mexico and six countries in the Caribbean, including the Bahamas and Cuba, are suffering significant bleaching, alongside corals in Florida that began turning white almost a month ago.
“I don’t think any of these places have seen heat stress like this before,” said Dr Derek Manzello, coordinator of Coral Reef Watch at the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
Coral reefs are home to more than a quarter of the world’s marine species despite taking up about 0.1% of the ocean floor and are considered one of the most susceptible ecosystems to global heating.
Dr Ian Enochs, head of the coral program at Noaa’s Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory, has inspected the Cheeca Rocks reef that used to be one of the healthiest and most vibrant in the Florida Keys.
Depending on the species and the amount of heat, corals can recover from bleaching but scientists say they are more susceptible to disease and don’t reproduce as well in the years that follow.
In Panama, Dr Sean Connolly, of the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, said there were reports of bleaching on the Caribbean and Pacific side of the country.
I’m a bot and I’m open source!
“It’s called summer, libtards. There’s always mass die-offs of entire ecosystems in summer.”
We’re fucked.
Conservatives are celebrating by pouring bottles of motor oil down their drains.
“Woohoo! We’re killing the world, baby!”
Fuck conservatives. They did this and they did it gleefully.
