#WorldOceanDay🐠
1. 80% of the oxygen humans breathe comes from the Ocean
2. global warming will kill corals within decades causing rippling ecosystem collapse with devastating effects on the planet
3. ocean acidification & deoxygenation cause extinction both are happening now
“You like to breathe?” Crosby asked. “Estimates are that up to 80% of the oxygen you are breathing in right now comes from the ocean. businessinsider.fr/us/coral-reefs…
90% of corals dead by 2040s.
(99-100% dead soon after we hit 2°C of global warming by 2035 - 2050)
independent.co.uk/environment/en…
Severe ocean acidification:
'Breaching a “carbon threshold” could lead to mass extinction
Carbon dioxide emissions may trigger a reflex in the carbon cycle, with devastating consequences.'
news.mit.edu/2019/carbon-th…
"observations of the modern ocean suggest there is significant widespread deoxygenation which may cause greater stresses on organisms that require oxygen, and may be the initial steps towards another marine mass extinction."
phys.org/news/2019-08-o…
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