Baltimore Checkerspot (Euphydryas phaeton)
Driftless Area South Central Wisconsin, Dane County USA
2019-06-22 _F2A7067aaa
“Beyond 1.5 Series | Tipping points: Is there a point of no return?”
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“Eating one wild fish same as month of drinking tainted water: study”
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40F at midnight in Southern Wisconsin January 16 with winter tornado in Iowa.
Brace yourself for triple digit HEAT this summer.
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This is not good and gratefully its gaining some publicity. Ever hear the Amazon is the lungs of the planet? Well it emits oxygen and binds atmospheric carbon. That is changing to it being a net C02 emitter. Anyway, yeah, the Amazon emits oxygen we need to breath but the largest source of that is actually the oceans. And when the oceans heat, oxygen production goes down, and less oxygen enters the atmosphere. Oxygen levels in our atmosphere are going down and it will get worse.
Kevin Hester of Arctic News explains simply:
“"Atmospheric Oxygen Levels are Decreasing and Scripps attribute it to burning fossil fuels. Excluding Phytoplankton seems weird to me. Half of the world’s oxygen is produced by phytoplankton through the process of photosynthesis." [phytoplankton also oxygenate the ocean where they live]
Again, Half of the world’s breathable oxygen is produced by phytoplankton that die as oceans warm
There are other problems:
“Ocean deoxygenation: "Deoxygenated deeper ocean waters produce greenhouse gases such as nitrous oxide, carbon dioxide and methane that may reach the ocean surface and be released into the atmosphere, contributing to further warming" Ocean deoxygenation - resource | IUCN”
“Ocean deoxygenation
The oxygen content of the ocean has declined by around 2% since the middle of the 20th century overall, while the volume of ocean waters completely depleted of oxygen has quadrupled since the 1960s.
Ocean oxygen levels are expected to fall on average by 3–4% by 2100 overall due to climate change and increased nutrient discharges, though the scale of effect seen will vary regionally.
Consequences of ocean oxygen decline include decreased biodiversity, shifts in species distributions, displacement or reduction in fishery resources and expanding algal blooms.
Ocean deoxygenation threatens to disrupt the ocean’s food provisioning ecosystem services.
To slow and reverse the loss of oxygen, humans must urgently mitigate climate change globally and nutrient pollution locally.”
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“RIGHT WING EXTREMISM Unpublished J6 Report Reveals Social Media Companies Allowed Right-Wing Activists to ‘Exploit’ Platforms in Weeks Before Attack”
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