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Have you been to the Pacific Islands, thousands of miles from any continent with industrialised agriculture? Swam in Vanuatu? Dived in Samoa? Snorkelled in Fiji
by markdown 11y ago
Have you been to the Pacific Islands, thousands of miles from any continent with industrialised agriculture? Swam in Vanuatu? Dived in Samoa? Snorkelled in Fiji?
There is coral bleaching on a massive scale that can't be explained by any of the reasons you mentioned.
Here in Fiji, last month we had ocean temperatures so high that thousands of fish died. This is unprecedented in Fiji: https://www.newswire.com.fj/community/fisheries/fish-kills-unprecedented-temperature-threatens-marine-eco-system/ https://www.newswire.com.fj/community/fisheries/fish-kills-u...
The same happened in Vanuatu: http://eveningreport.nz/2016/02/09/vanuatu-heat-wave-suspected-cause-for-sudden-death-of-fish/ http://eveningreport.nz/2016/02/09/vanuatu-heat-wave-suspect...
A week after that happened, the same warm seas spawned the second biggest tropical cyclone ever recorded in the entire Southern Hemisphere, killing ~50 people. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyclone_Winston https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyclone_Winston
- jessaustin 11y agoI've lived on several Pacific Islands, and spent time on others. Sadly I haven't made it to Vanuatu, Samoa, or Fiji. Your links seem to refer to fish deaths rather than coral bleaching.
- markdown 11y agoThe coral bleaching is everywhere. Every reef I've ever seen is more dead than alive with most of the coral bleached. The links I provided were indeed fish deaths because they illustrate how warm the seas have been recently. Coral bleaching occurs at lower temperatures than fish death.