Massive Die-off in Flower Garden Reef off the LA Coast.

Federal scientists say a massive die-off is taking place on a coral reef of a national marine sanctuary in the Gulf of Mexico.

Steve Gittings, chief scientist with the Office of National Marine Sanctuaries, reported this week that federal scientists are studying a large-scale mortality event of unknown cause taking place at the East Flower Garden Bank in Gulf of Mexico.

The reef is part of the Flower Garden Banks National Marine Sanctuary, about 100 miles off the coasts of Louisiana and Texas.

http://www.nola.com/environment/index.ssf/2016/07/noaa_mass_die-off_at_marine_sa.html 

Hat tip to Colorado Bob at Robertscribbler (Tampa 2090 Hurricane post).

Phytoplankton to Die Off if Seas Warm by 6 Degrees Celsius Due to Global Warming.

Report: The World Will Run out of Breathable Air Unless Carbon Is Cut

“As representatives from 195 nations gather in Paris to hammer out a global agreement to slash greenhouse gas emissions, a new study finds that the failure to do so could leave the world gasping for breath.

“Marine plants such as phytoplankton are estimated to produce more than half the Earth’s atmospheric oxygen, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. For the study, Sergei Petrovskii, an applied mathematics professor at the University of Leicester in the United Kingdom, calculated how unrestrained global warming could affect phytoplankton and thus the ocean’s ability to generate breathable air.”.

He found out that once the world’s oceans warmed by 6C (10F) the phytoplankton have a mass die-off, depriving us and other creatures of Oxygen with essentially zero warning.

http://news.yahoo.com/report-world-run-breathable-air-unless-carbon-cut-210604512.html