Oceanwire 🇺🇦🌻

Curating the knowledge, news and sheer wonder of our planet's remarkable ocean

“You have to love it before you're moved to save it.” ~Sylvia Earle

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Our Twitter banner is climate warming stripes of the Arctic Ocean since 1893.

Learn about climate warming stripes & their inventor
@ed_hawkins here: https://t.co/3R2ieZmDe1

and make your climate stripes here: https://t.co/9N4NtotTvD

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#OurAmazingOcean

Isle of Jersey Expands Marine Protections to Cover 21% of Territorial Waters

https://t.co/tcAolXqAvE

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#whales

Hundreds of baby whales are washing ashore dead – and the suspected cause is horrifying

https://t.co/K93pb5Ykfu

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#climateemergency #climateadaptation

Underwater Umbrellas Could Protect Coral Reefs From Heat Damage

https://t.co/L3JUpmnDvi

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#OurAmazingOcean

To Heal These Bleached Corals, All It Took Was a Little Touch

gift link 👇
https://t.co/QN0qbLqyka

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#RemarkableOceanPlanet

Rare 1-in-100M ‘Ghost Lobster’ Goes to School to Help Scientists Crack Genetic Mystery–in Time for Halloween

https://t.co/uL0aRooFQl

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#alohafriday

Ocean fun!

Play the "Anyone For Mollusks" Wonderword word game!

Free -- for a week or two
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[Jeff Berardelli @WeatherProf]

New paper by the World’s most prominent climate scientists shows rapid acceleration of human-caused warming, with a warming rate now that tracks to near 2.4°C by 2050, far faster than was expected, if it continues.
From paper: “We are witnessing the rapid destabilization of the Earth’s climate system. This is no longer a warning for the future; it is a diagnosis of the present. Earth’s life-support systems are being pushed beyond stable limits, with changes unfolding faster than our ability to respond. Human activities are driving profound shifts in the atmosphere, oceans, and biosphere.”
Paper Link in replies… H/T @LeonSimons8 …

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To cull or not to cull: Greenland debates fate of world’s slowest shark

https://t.co/HSxUfQ4V3d

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Trawl fishing catches huge amounts of seafood. It can also devastate the seafloor

https://t.co/XCY3jye6eE

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#OceanHope

‘Beyond priceless’: how a halt to dredging saved the seas of Scotland’s Summer Isles

https://t.co/FncZRFUYUq

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#OceanHope

‘Beyond priceless’: how a halt to dredging saved the seas of Scotland’s Summer Isles

https://t.co/FncZRFUYUq

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#seabirds

Coastal Golf Course Turned into Vital Wetland Habitat for Seabirds

https://t.co/Tybz8jaa6X

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#RemarkableOceanPlanet ✨

The deep sea is still 99% unknown to humans

And NOAA Fisheries Service researchers just identified nine new deep sea sponges!

One identified species is so unique they had to create a new genus for it

https://t.co/7rEcCbAKMl

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Satellite data reveal massive scale of routine oil pollution in oceans
Oil slicks from ships and offshore oil platforms cover nearly 1.6 million square kilometers (618,000 square miles) of the ocean surface each year, an area slightly larger than the nation of Mongolia.
https://t.co/aIaNqbJ4v6

[Jeff Berardelli @WeatherProf]

It’s almost like climate change is real.

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"Deforestation is not development. It is self-sabotage on a planetary scale."
Every forest cleared for short-term profit steals long-term security from future generations. True progress protects nature; it doesn't erase it.

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The herring fishery that took 400 years to rebound—and what it teaches us today

https://t.co/8UdrI0txji

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@Speaking4Trees @giveashitnature Try this cool thing - it tells you how tall/wide the native plants will get a maturity so you can figure out what will work with your town's regs

https://t.co/WrWo1ZEecg

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#ElNino #climateemergency

Concern mounts over slow-moving, planetary-scale ‘Kelvin’ wave heading for California

https://t.co/AYDrvJSMex

[Jeff Berardelli @WeatherProf]

I’d agree here. We’ve seen a lot of deviant weather/ climate behavior over the past few years. But my honest assessment is: this El Niño is by far the most extreme outlier. If we are being honest, a year ago, could any climate/ weather expert legitimately say that they could conceive of an El Niño so far outside the distribution? I’m genuinely curious? Anyone? Bueller??Because I’ve become accustomed to now “expect the unexpected”. But for this I apparently need to adjust my expectations wayyyyy upward.