Ocean heat record broken, with grim implications for the planet
Ocean heat record broken, with grim implications for the planet
The oceans are a vital regulator for the climate and our weather but are rapidly heating up.
The average daily global sea surface temperature beat a 2016 record this week, according to the EU's climate change service Copernicus.
It reached 20.96C. That's far above the average for this time of year.
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No, I absolutely do not. In fact, that's my most optimistic outlook. If ocean acidification continues at the rate it's going, we'll have complete collapse of the oceans, which are the core and source of our entire planet's biosphere.
It's also beyond fucking stupid to read some asshole playing the "gotcha" game when the answer won't be visible in our lifetimes, and the solution needs to start happening today.
It's a great show, I've seen it. The problem is the rate of ocean acidification is unprecedented at this speed in our geological history, and that our current level hasn't been hit in 300 million years, and we're still trucking. This could create an irreversible change.
The other thing to factor in is this will be it for intelligent life. We won't get another chance at a species progressing the way we did because much of the world's easily accessible oil has been used up.
No previous life form based its expansion on oil like we did. And no previous life, in its unfathomable diversity, was even close to prior ones in shape, form or ability.
Why would you think that a future intelligent form would turn out like us and base its existence on fossil fuels?
Basic evolutionary and technological processes, I guess. Combustible fuels are the simplest step a species can take.
Since every evolutionary era, when devastation then a rise of life occured, the new life forms were more advanced than the previous.
It's likely that whatever life develops after we're gone will find more ecologically-sound ways to progress than we did. And that's a good thing, cause we were for shit at it.