To keep us distracted from what’s really going on in the world, our rulers constantly provide more and more circuses — a new Marvel superhero movie, the latest celebrity scandal of the week, a huge sale at Amazon — because if everyone was paying attention to *genuine* reality, the whole capitalist charade might just collapse.

But guess what: Earth's climate and environment pay no heed to such circuses. Instead, they respond directly to real physical inputs, the continual burning of fossil fuels, the ever-increasing amounts of greenhouse gases in our atmosphere, the enormous heat being trapped and absorbed...
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March 2024 was the hottest on record and the tenth straight month of historic heat, with sea surface temperatures also hitting a "shocking" new high.

It is the latest red flag in a year already marked by climate extremes and rising greenhouse gas emissions, spurring fresh calls for more rapid action to limit global warming.

Every month since June 2023 has beaten its own "hottest ever" tag – and March 2024 was no exception.

The EU's Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S) said that March globally was 1.68ºC hotter than an average March between the years 1850-1900, the reference period for the pre-industrial era.

Huge swathes of the planet endured above-average temperatures, from parts of Africa to Greenland, South America, and Antarctica.

March was not only the tenth consecutive month to break its own heat record, but capped the hottest 12-month period on the books – 1.58ºC above pre-industrial averages.
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FULL STORY -- https://www.lemonde.fr/en/environment/article/2024/04/09/global-temperatures-hit-record-highs-for-tenth-consecutive-month-in-march_6667824_114.html

#Science #Environment #Climate #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #ClimateEmergency

208 #ClimateEmergency #Coral

More bad news: nature is evolving...
who would have thought ?

"A parasite tied to bleaching in global coral reefs has infected B.C. marine life
By Rochelle Baker for Canada's National Observer

https://www.nationalobserver.com/2024/04/17/news/parasite-tied-bleaching-global-coral-reefs-has-infected-bc-marine-life

Quotes:
"The presence of the microbial parasite will have a big ripple effect on their study across the Pacific and how they might impact marine life in both warm and cold waters, said Keeling."

"If corals in tropical waters are more vulnerable to bleaching and warming waters because of the parasite, this may also pose concerns for marine life infected with corallicolids in cold-water ecosystems as ocean warming occurs."

"The parasites have probably been in B.C. waters for some time but simply weren’t found because people weren’t looking for them, he said, but also due to a scientific “blind spot” because typical water-testing methods would not readily identify the parasite."

"Finding the corallicolids in B.C. waters means more research is needed to learn more about how and which cold-water animals the parasites may affect most, Trznadel said."