The target of keeping long-term global warming within 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 Fahrenheit) is moving out of reach, climate experts say, with nations failing to set more ambitious goals.
Global warming is the major factor, said Piers Forster, professor of climate physics at the University of Leeds, but El Nino, the decline in Saharan dust blowing over the ocean and the use of low-sulphur shipping fuels were also to blame.
“So in all, oceans are being hit by a quadruple whammy,” he said. “It’s a sign of things to come.”
Thousands of dead fish have been washing up on Texan beaches and heat-induced algal blooms have also been blamed for killing sea lions and dolphins in California.
Yeah we are so fucked, I don’t trust corporations to make any meaningful changes.
Yeah we are so fucked, I don’t trust corporations to make any meaningful changes.
And that’s not even mentioning how most of the plankton in the Atlantic have died due to ocean acidification.
We’re well past the point of no return and into the era of the anthropogenic mass extinction event.
Articles like this are narrative-control propaganda to keep the poors from killing the wealthy before they can get into their bunkers.