Current Events > The collapse of our oceans is accelerating, fyi

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In short, ocean hypoxia is when theres a low concentration of oxygen in water, which is caused by a lower solubility spurned on by heat and poor circulation (stagnant water). This in turn is causing "dead zones" in the ocean where marine life either swims away and is fine, or cant, and straight up suffocates.

It's basically a wildfire, but for water environments and without the regenerative effects afterwords.

This effect was first noticed to be increasing in 2002, but its been getting worse ever since, and with the near collapse of thermohaline circulation (ie, ocean currents) as of late, its likely to start getting exponential with the Indian Ocean to be the first to see large effects as its heating up faster than the other oceans are.

These issues are going to cause a lot of famine and food insecurities as time goes on, and coastlines are going to be hit hard. And thats before we even get into the weather, which as we're already seeing is going to go nuts.

But of course, this is all mumbo jumbo. Lets do the pop-up book version.

This is what the ocean current in question is supposed to look like:



The movement of surface and deep ocean water helps to keep the oceans non-stagnant and at a stable temperature to support life.

This is what this current looks like right now:



The water isnt circulating the way its supposed to, and pockets are getting stuck at various places along the currents path.

https://earth.nullschool.net/#2021/06/02/0000Z/ocean/surface/currents/

You can use the above link; it has animation as well to get an idea of whats actually moving. You can also go back to 2013 and see how its degrading. The highlighted areas are getting bigger with less movement.

Suffice to say, not good. Hopefully we'll be carbon neutral 30 years from now. Thatll fix this somehow...

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So what you're saying is, we are winning the war against the ocean?
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Slayer_22 posted...

So what you're saying is, we are winning the war against the ocean?

Yeah basically. Why fish when you can just suffocate the entire fucking ecosystem.


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Caligula would be proud

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CommonJoe posted...

Yeah basically. Why fish when you can just suffocate the entire fucking ecosystem.

Exactly we beat the fish at their own game. First the ocean, then: space.
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Yeah fuck Neptune

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Get fucked, ocean!

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I think this is Godzilla's doing.

ScazarMeltex posted...

Yeah man but we are making record profits for shareholders.

Stonks...chants the death cult.

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CommonJoe posted...

You can use the above link; it has animation as well to get an idea of whats actually moving. You can also go back to 2013 and see how its degrading. The highlighted areas are getting bigger with less movement.

That is actually interesting.
A lot of it makes sense.

Is there a time scale option.
I would like to see it with a weather pattern overlay.
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Let us now take our vengeance on this murderous ocean!
*stabs water*

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Good the ocean has killed many people. We need to kill it.

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Overfishing is contributing to this, too.

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Bump

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Maybe we can nuke certain parts of the ocean to get the currents flowing again

What do you want me to do about it?

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well that's depressing.

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JTilly posted...

Maybe we can nuke certain parts of the ocean to get the currents flowing again

Thatd be like dropping an ant into a swimming pool.

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Humans were a mistake. We're killing the planet and don't care.

This is why we do not need any means of interstellar travel, we'll just screw up every planet we inhabit.

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ocean gettin its ass kicked

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And yes, it should be pretty obvious to anyone paying attention that were in the middle of a (very likely irreversible) multi-system global ecological/environmental collapse.

Even if we were to halt all greenhouse emissions today, the tremendous inertia of changes already set in motion would still be enough to ruin us.

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didn't you guys see the movie? this is easy

fire, ice, and lightning
bring together all three
their powers combined tame
the beast of the sea

so all we gotta do is get moltres, zapdos and articuno together and hit up ya boy lugia (he lives in the underwater current) and he'll fix:

• the weather
• the ocean
• everything else

it's so easy a child could do it. and if we don't, the earth shall turn to ash.

LinkDaLunatic posted...

didn't you guys see the movie? this is easy

fire, ice, and lightning
bring together all three
their powers combined tame
the beast of the sea

so all we gotta do is get moltres, zapdos and articuno together and hit up ya boy lugia (he lives in the underwater current) and he'll fix:
* the weather
* the ocean
* everything else
it's so easy a child could do it. and if we don't, the earth shall turn to ash.

Better yet, let our powers combine!

UHH!!

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just pump more oxygen into the sea, it's fine

Payzmaykr posted...

Overfishing is contributing to this, too.

Yep. And it's responsible for about 10% of the ocean's plastic problem. And it's the most dangerous kind of plastic too since it consists of things like fishing nets, which are designed to kill fish.

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If only the ocean had a gun

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Aressar posted...

Better yet, let our powers combine!

UHH!!

EARTH

Bump

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