Marine heatwaves reshape British seas

🌊 Marine heatwaves need to be thought of as the ocean equivalent of wildfires: Acute climate-driven disturbances that can rapidly overwhelm ecosystems, cause mass mortality, and fundamentally reorganise habitats.

‘Our new normal’: how marine heatwaves affect life in British seas

Marine heatwaves are serious & species are moving in order to survive. But I would LOVE us to observe & enjoy the new species arriving at our shores, rather than immediately seeing them as food or as something to hunt for pleasure. So depressing to search for the species & get fishing + recipes 😢

From @financialtimes.com: Mark Maslin, a professor of earth system science at University College London, said he had “run out of expletives to describe the record-breaking weather we are seeing all around the world”.

🚨Marine heatwaves are hitting UK seas with increasing severity & frequency due to the climate crisis, & it's having dire impacts on ocean life, from kelp forests to seagrass meadows, from catsharks to fish populations 🌊🔽 www.theguardian.com/environment/...

🌊 Persistent marine heatwaves in British waters are forcing native species north while warm-water species like sunfish surge off UK coasts. Our marine ecosystems are shifting rapidly, disrupting delicate food webs. Will our conservation policies adapt in time? #ClimateCrisis

Marine heatwaves are a CDR problem too: warmer oceans absorb less CO2 and destabilise the biological carbon pump that removes roughly 10 gigatonnes a year. Maslin's expletives aside, ocean-based removal pathways get harder as the baseline shifts.

Happy to share our new paper in Global Change Biology! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... Can marine protected areas buffer red gorgonian populations against recurrent marine heatwaves? 👇

It is unusual that there are so many sunfish. And the jellyfish blooms this year have been crazy! Along with seeing fewer colder-water species, climate change is having undeniable effects in the sea www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Op-Ed: Marine Heatwaves are Cooking Ocean Ecosystems, And Will Get Stronger ->The Maritime Executive | More on "Marine heatwaves and ocean ecosystems" at BigEarthData.ai | #Ecosystem #ClimateChange #Heatwave #Ocean

Climate change-induced marine heatwaves and drought are expected to devastate fish populations and marine life through mass die-offs, and also lead to crop failures and wildfires across Europe.

"The extraordinary temperatures are causing shifts in marine life far beyond an increase in sunfish. Some species are moving away from warmer waters, other “invaders” are appearing for the first time around Britain’s coastline, while some marine life is dying off under the rays of the sun."

Marine Heatwaves: The Structural Violence of the 'New Normal' Defining ecological collapse as a 'new normal' is a cultural complicity that masks violence with narrative. 海洋热浪：被定义为“新常态”的结构性暴力 将生态崩溃定义为“新常态”，是典型的用叙事掩盖暴力的文化共谋。