You're looking at the total annihilation of an ecosystem. What you can see is coral bleaching. Record-breaking water temperatures 2 degrees above normal are causing widespread coral reef bleaching in the Florida Keys archipelago. This is mass extinction in real-time.

🌊Heartbreaking scenes from the #FloridaKeys: At Cheeca Rocks, renowned for its high live stony coral coverage, 99% of corals are bleached. Even the resilient 'massives' are struggling. Rising water temperatures are to blame. It's time for #ClimateAction. #SaveTheCorals

These are the folks making decisions on endangered species:

Coral Crisis 🚨 As many have heard, Florida’s Coral Reef is in the midst of a significant bleaching event as a result of the unprecedented elevated ocean temps. There have already been devastating impacts through the FL Keys w/ continued bleaching and mortality expected… 🧵👇

The current heat stress in Florida has not been this high this early in the season since satellite records began in 1985. Learn about measures to protect, relocate, and “bank” live fragments of coral to help Florida’s Coral Reef survive this heat crisis. climate.gov/news-features/…

Earth just had its hottest month humans have ever directly measured and likely the hottest in over 120,000 years. July 2023 was a staggering 0.33°C (0.60°F) warmer than the 2nd warmest month on record and becomes the first month to breach 1.5°C above preindustrial levels

Today's ocean heat content in the Atlantic Main Development Region for #hurricanes is typically reached on August 1st. We're currently running about 2.5 months ahead of schedule.

For those not following what's happening in the Tropics this year, I made the graph below to make the record breaking surface temperatures as clear as possible:

2024 IT WAS A RECORD BREAKING WARM MAY! 🌡️ Our four climate stations (Miami, Ft. Lauderdale, West Palm Beach, and Naples) all broke their record for warmest month of May. Some sites have taken observations for over 100 years 😲Miami (1895) & W. Palm Beach (1888)

The Atlantic is in uncharted territory in 2024. Severe marine heatwave conditions have rapidly developed in the Caribbean, Gulf of Mexico, and off the coast of Florida, with water temperatures already peaking in the low 90s in Florida. The Florida Keys and the Bahamas are

Time-lapse of Galaxea larvae looking for a spot to settle 🪸 @CoralSymBiomiX

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Where Kamala Harris and Donald Trump stand on the issues that matter most to scientists | Science | AAAS science.org/content/articl…

I have a confession and a plea to folks who are flirting with voting Jill Stein. When I was a 20 year old college student in 2000, I voted for Ralph Nader instead of Al Gore. I loved the progressive message Nader offered, and Bush and Gore seemed kinda the same to someone who

***November 6, 2024

#MedTwitter There is a widespread outbreak of #norovirus, a GI virus that causes projectile vomiting & profuse diarrhea usually lasting 24-48 hrs. Wastewater levels nationwide are high. It’s miserable & incredibly contagious. So many friends are texting us SOS, so here’s a 🧵. /1

Yesterday, TIME broke news of a landmark advance in gene editing and de-extinction. This piece has proven divisive, and many criticisms I have seen are misplaced or incorrect. This 🧵 is intended to provide my take, based on my own expertise, and set the record straight.

Unsurvivable times.

🚨New paper alert: we used over 20 years of long-term coral reef monitoring data in southeast Florida to examine benthic community response to disturbance, with specific emphasis on coral and octocoral demographics link.springer.com/article/10.100…

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