#Wildfires, including the #EatonFire & #PalisadesFire, have significant repercussions on #marine #ecosystems. The ash & debris from these fires can enter waterways & eventually the #ocean, altering nutrient levels & fostering conditions favorable to the growth of harmful #AlgalBlooms. The #toxic byproducts from these fires can exacerbate #OceanWarming, further promoting the frequency of these toxic blooms. This can lead to increased production of #DomoicAcid.
#Crisis On The Coast: #DomoicAcid Poisoning Strands 140 #SeaLions & 50 #Dolphins On #California Beaches
The recent influx of #marine #wildlife affected by domoic acid poisoning off the coast of Southern California underscores a critical #environmental crisis, w/≧140 sea lions suffering from this debilitating poison & reports of at least 50 stranded dolphins along local beaches.
#ClimateCrisis #climate #MarineLife #ocean #wildfires #ecosystems #algae #OceanWarming #science
https://worldanimalnews.com/crisis-on-the-coast-domoic-acid-poisoning-strands-140-sea-lions-and-50-dolphins-on-california-beaches/
Even the lobsters are leaving the U.S. ...
Lobsters are migrating north to Canada as the Gulf of Maine becomes one of the fastest-warming ocean territories in the world.
Maine, which produces 93 percent of the U.S. lobster supply, has seen annual catch numbers drop from 50 million kg in 2021 to 39 million kg in 2024.
The Gulf of Maine is heating up 3x faster than other ocean waters, pushing lobsters into Canada’s cooler waters and reshaping the industry.
#ClimateChange #Lobster #OceanWarming
Firings at US #weather and #oceans agency risk lives and economy, former agency heads warn
By SETH BORENSTEIN
Updated 9:48 AM EST, March 1, 2025
WASHINGTON (AP) — "The federal weather and oceans agency touches people’s daily lives in unnoticed ways, so massive firings there will likely cause needless deaths and a big hit to America’s economy, according to the people who ran it.
"The first round of firings started Thursday at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, a government agency that monitors the oceans, the atmosphere where storms roam and space, and puts out hundreds of 'products' daily. Those products generally save lives and money, experts say.
"#NOAA’s 301 billion weather forecasts every year reach 96% of American households.
The firings are 'going to affect safety of flight, safety of shipping, safety of everyday Americans,' Admiral Tim Gallaudet told The Associated Press Friday. President Donald Trump appointed Gallaudet as acting NOAA chief during his last administration. 'Lives are at risk for sure.'
"Former NOAA Administrator Rick Spinrad agreed.
"'We’re getting into prime #tornado time. We’re getting into #planting season for the agricultural season for the bread belt,' Spinrad said. 'It’s going to affect safety. It’s going to affect the economy.'"
https://apnews.com/article/noaa-doge-federal-cuts-musk-weather-danger-6f60e7c511989aeff8930ae87c9a5ee8
#USPol #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #PolyCrisis #HungerGames #FoodInsecurity #WeatherForecasts #ExtremeWeather #Safety #Spaceweather #SolarFlares #ClimateScientists #OceanWarming #Oceanographers
Finally, an answer to why Earth’s oceans have been on a record hot streak
A new study finds that the rate of ocean warming has more than quadrupled over the past 40 years — and pinpoints why.
by Sachi Kitajima Mulkey, January 28, 2025
"By looking back through satellite observations since 1985 and developing a statistical model that isolated the trends in both ocean warming and Earth’s energy imbalance, the researchers found they were escalating in lockstep. According to Merchant, the study is possibly the first to connect the two phenomena over recent decades. 'It’s a very tight correlation,' [Christopher Merchant, climate scientist] said.
"This relationship is bad news for the oceans, which have absorbed some 90 percent of the excess warming from human activity. Some of that heat will continue to seep down into the planet’s depths, while some will cycle back up toward the surface and escape into the atmosphere. According to the study, the next 20 years could warm up the oceans more than the last 40.
"If you think of the oceans as a bath, Merchant says, it’s like the hot tap was only a trickle in the 1980s — but now, it’s been cranked up. 'And what’s turning the tap more open, making the warming pick up speed, is an increase in#GreenhouseGases — #CarbonDioxide and #methane — which are both still rising, largely from the #FossilFuel industry,' he said.
"There are other factors turning up the heat. The El Niño pattern that began in 2023 added around 0.1 or 0.2 degrees Celsius, before the inverse La Niña pattern took over in December 2024.
"Another piece of the puzzle is the planet’s diminishing reflectivity, according to Brian McNoldy, an atmospheric scientist at the University of Miami’s Rosenstiel School of Marine, Atmospheric, and Earth Science. The ocean’s dark surface helps it absorb heat, whereas white clouds and aerosol particles in the atmosphere help bounce the sun’s radiation back into space. In 2020, the International Maritime Organization adopted a new rule to cut back on sulfur pollution from shipping fuel, but because the aerosol particles in emissions acted as a seed for clouds, the regulation had the unintended effect of dimming the marine layer of clouds that blanket the ocean.
"'So you get rid of a lot of those, and now more of the sun’s energy can be absorbed in the ocean instead of reflecting off clouds,' McNoldy said. According to Merchant, efforts to curb air pollution from factories in countries like China also had the side effect of cutting back reflective aerosols.
"The excess ocean warmth has had wide-ranging consequences. In April 2024, as the oceans started simmering, 77 percent of the world’s coral reefs became imperiled in the most extensive bleaching event on record, threatening the livelihoods of a billion people and a quarter of marine life. Changing ocean temperatures also shift weather patterns, potentially intensifying droughts, downpours, and storms alike.
"'Hurricanes love warmer water. So all other things be equal, a warmer ocean can produce stronger hurricanes with maybe more frequent instances of rapid intensification,' McNoldy said. Last September, Hurricane Helene slammed into Florida’s Gulf Coast after surging from a Category 1 to a Category 4 storm in a single day.
"'The oceans really set the pace for global warming for the Earth as a whole,' Merchant said. The knock-on effects — like wildfires, drought, and floods — will continue to escalate, too. 'That really needs to be understood, but it also needs to filter through to governments that changes might be coming down the line faster than they’re currently assuming.”"
Read more:
https://grist.org/oceans/why-earth-oceans-record-hot-streak/?utm_source=firefox-newtab-en-us
#ClimateCrisis #OceanWarming #BigOilAndGas #ClimateCatastrophe
Scientists Sound Alarm: Oceans Hit Record High Temperatures, Threatening Life on Land | SciTechDaily…
A recent study reveals that #oceanwarming in 2024 has set new record-high #temperatures. This marks the hottest conditions ever recorded by humans, … Scientists Sound Alarm: Oceans Hit Record High Temperatures, Threatening Life on Land | SciTechDaily…
That is an INSANE amount of water. 
“That’s enough to fill the Dallas Cowboys’ stadium 51,000 times, or Lake Tahoe just once. If it was concentrated just on the state of North Carolina that much water would be 3.5 feet deep (more than 1 meter). It’s enough to fill more than 60 million Olympic-size swimming pools.”
#HurricaneHelene #ClimateCrisis #ClimateAction #ClimateActionNow #Flooding #OceanWarming
Unveiling the hottest period in a million years: The MIS 11c paradox
https://phys.org/news/2024-08-unveiling-hottest-period-million-years.html #climate #geology #OceanWarming
A 'catastrophe' in [#Florida's] #LowerKeys: Summer #heatwave wipes out iconic #ElkhornCoral 
WLRN Public Media | By Jenny Staletovich
Published August 16, 2024
"The blistering summer heat wave that hammered South Florida’s coral reefs last year wiped out the last wild stands of its iconic elkhorn coral in the Lower Keys, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration [#NOAA] announced this week.
"The deaths amounted to a 77% loss in genetic diversity needed to help sustain a vanishing coral that once blanketed Florida reefs.
"That’s left scientists who have been working for decades to restore the antler-shaped coral struggling with what to do next.
"'The community wasn't expecting this kind of off-a-cliff #catastrophe,' said Ilsa Kuffner, a research biologist with the U.S. Geological Survey. 'There were already declines that were pretty pronounced in the last 20 years. So this was a big ratcheting down of that.'
"When the heat wave hit, scientists were already struggling to keep up with efforts to grow and plant coral on an ailing reef under attack from a new disease that cropped up in 2014 near Miami. That disease had intensified restoration efforts and focused work on breeding a new resilient coral that could both tolerate heat and disease. The unexpected heat wave was like a fire alarm.
"By July, prolonged heat that began rising three months earlier was wilting coral, causing them to begin expelling their life-sustaining algae, turn white and die."
Read more:
https://www.wlrn.org/environment/2024-08-16/elkhorn-coral-reef-heat-florida-keys
#SeaLevelRise in #Antarctica
#ClimateCrisis
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...#Caribbean is not cooled by it anymore, and the #BritishIsles will not be warmed anymore.
In contrast to that phenomenon, current events of #OceanWarming 1) show, IMO, that at least one "tipping point" has already been passed that will affect glaciers.
Last but not least, all past global-warming models have erred on the "high side."
That said, why is humanity doomed:
Via #TheCryosphere
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Almost like there is an accelerant underneath, fueling them: an accelerant with ever-increasing energy potential.
The #GulfOfMaine had one of its hottest years in 2023, part of a worldwide trend
New Hampshire Public Radio | By Patrick Whittle, Associated Press
Published April 29, 2024 at 4:37 PM EDT
"The sea off New England, already warming faster than most of the world's oceans, had one of its hottest years on record in 2023.
"The Gulf of Maine, which abuts New England and Canada, had an annual sea surface temperature nearly 2 degrees Fahrenheit above normal last year, scientists with the Portland, Maine-based Gulf of #Maine Research Institute said Monday.
"The institute said it was the fifth-warmest year on record for the Gulf of Maine, a body of water critical to commercial fishing and other maritime industries."
Read more:
https://www.nhpr.org/ap-news/2024-04-29/gulf-of-maine-atlantic-ocean-had-one-of-its-hottest-years
#ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #OceanWarming
#Maine #AtlanticOcean #NewEngland
Check out our new paper led by Chloé Carbonne on the response of two temperate scleractinian #corals to projected #OceanWarming and #MarineHeatwaves
https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsos.231683
Study confirms #GulfStream warming, shifting toward #MaineCoast
December 19, 2023
"The latest research finds the Gulf Stream has warmed faster than the global ocean over the past two decades, and has shifted toward the #AtlanticCoast.
"Scientists say the ocean current, which carries tropical water up the #EasternSeaboard, has warmed two degrees Fahrenheit since 2001 and could be pushing warmer water into the #GulfOfMaine.
"Robert Todd, an associate scientist with the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, said years of data collection confirm what climate models predicted.
"'Long-term ocean observing really is important,' said Todd, 'and we need to keep making those observations so we can understand what’s actually happening in the climate system.'
"Todd said #OceanTemperatures are steadily rising as a result of human activities. He said the findings could determine how changes in the Gulf Stream will impact Maine’s coastal industries.
"The Woods Hole study relied on more than 25,000 ocean temperature and salinity observations collected through the Argo Program — an array of some 4,000 floating robots throughout the global ocean.
"In addition, underwater gliders have slowly navigated the Gulf Stream — revealing warm rings of water, which Todd says could enter the Gulf of Maine and alter marine #environments and species.
"'You can imagine if you have an organism that likes cold water, and suddenly the water is a whole lot warmer because this ring was there,' said Todd, 'those organisms might not be there anymore or might suffer — and then, the fisheries associated with that would suffer.'
"The Gulf of Maine — which stretches from #CapeCod in #Massachusetts to #NovaScotia, #Canada — is already considered one of the fastest-warming ocean regions on the planet.
"Todd said the data collected is shared in real time with scientists around the world."
https://mainebeacon.com/study-confirms-gulf-stream-warming-shifting-toward-maine-coast/
We're kind of getting accustomed to "only" 3 degrees of sensitivity being mid-band thus by our flawed psychology tempting to understand as what passes for moderate but...
"We find that maximum ocean temperatures will become warmer (by 1.07° ± 0.17°C under 2°C warming and 2.04° ± 0.18°C under 3.2°C warming)."
Keep it down, y'all.
1.5 seems like too much hope and not enough plan right now.
#ClimateResearch
#OceanWarming
https://www.science.org/doi/full/10.1126/sciadv.adj5569?af=R
Ocean heating breaks record, again, with disastrous outcomes for the planet
‘Astounding’ ocean temperatures in 2023 intensified extreme weather, data shows‘
#oceanWarming #heat #globalWarming
#oceans #2023 #climateCrisis
‘Astounding’ #ocean #temperatures in 2023 intensified #ExtremeWeather, data shows - Record levels of #heat were absorbed last year by Earth’s #seas, which have been #warming year-on-year for the past decade - The #oceans absorb 90% of the heat trapped by the #carbon #emissions from the burning of #FossilFuels, making it the clearest indicator of #GlobalHeating. Record levels of heat were taken up by the oceans in 2023, scientists said, and the data showed that for the past decade the oceans have been hotter every year than the year before."
Why did Hurricane Otis get so strong, so fast?
The storm burst to Category 5 strength before devastating landfall near Acapulco, Mexico.
#hurricane #pacificCoast #mexico #oceanWarming #climateChange
#Temperatur der #Weltmeere: Aus der Balance | ZEIT ONLINE
>Besorgniserregende Temperaturen und verheerende #Unwetter zeigen: Der #Ozean, die Klimaanlage der Welt, ist in Aufruhr. Die Folgen an Land sind dramatisch.
https://www.zeit.de/2023/40/temperatur-weltmeere-erderwaermung-unwetter-klimakrise
