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Date: July 30, 2023 at 08:00:14
From: The Hierophant, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Meteorologist: Humanity has reached 'a point we cannot return from' as |
URL: https://www.msn.com/en-us/weather/topstories/meteorologist-humanity-has-reached-a-point-we-cannot-return-from-as-ocean-temperatures-soar/ar-AA1eyhjh?ocid=hpmsn&cvid=008c6bec1a21401788ce07444fbbcfba&ei=11 |
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Meteorologist: Humanity has reached 'a point we cannot
return from' as ocean temperatures soar
Emmy-Award-winning veteran NBC Miami meteorologist
Steve MacLaughlin sounded his loudest-ever alarm on
Saturday about the state of Earth's oceans amid record
temperatures that were recorded off of Florida's coast
this past week.
"This is the first time that I have been overly
concerned that we have reached a point we cannot return
from, and that's because of those 101-degree ocean
temperatures," MacLaughlin said. "That was hotter than
any number we saw on the entire planet for the ocean
right here in South Florida."
Sweltering sea heat "leads to so many issues when it
comes to climate change," MacLaughlin explained. "The
six inches of rain yesterday; the twenty-six inches of
rain we got a couple of months ago; the air quality up
north; the hurricanes; the sunny day flooding; it all
comes from the ocean."
The world's coral reefs — which in recent years
underwent multiple mass-bleaching events due to human
activity — are in critical danger of going extinct,
perhaps as soon as the middle of the 21st Century.
As the World Economic Forum warned in a 2022 study, "At
1.5°C of warming, 99% of the world's reefs will
experience heatwaves that are too frequent for them to
recover," which "would spell catastrophe for the
thousands of species that depend on coral reefs, as
well as the roughly one billion people whose
livelihoods and food supply benefits from coral reef
biodiversity."
MacLaughlin thusly noted that "ninety percent of global
warming is stored in the ocean and twenty-five percent
of sea life lives in and around the reefs. We call it
the rainforest of the sea. Look at all these benefits:
Protection; food and shelter for marine life;
protection of coastlines when a hurricane is
approaching, so the storm surge actually gets tamped
down a little bit; education and research, tourism and
recreation."
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Date: July 30, 2023 at 09:44:55
From: ryan, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: Meteorologist: Humanity has reached 'a point we cannot return... |
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the writing has been on the wall for a long time now...all that is left to do is wait for the inevitable consequences and make what small moves we can as individuals...move...learn how to garden...etc
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