Science

21% of the ocean is getting darker?!and 9% of it, a region the size of the ENTIRE content of Africa, has lost 50/200 meters of its life-bearing photic zone where 90% of marine life lives? :0 because of algal blooms? Fascinating! Had fun with this one!! Post your scicomm vids in the /science channel all!! :)

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What’s the driver, ocean temps? Dissolved O2, increased sunlight/nutrients?

Oceans absorb 90% of the heat trapped by greenhouse gases. It’s a huge regulator of temperature because of water’s high specific what capacity. But the past few years have seen global surface temperatures about 10% hotter than the 20 year average!! Potentially, it’s becoming oversaturated of heat.

Likely to influence faster volumes of evaporation as well.

Oh no way I’m happy to hear you’ve found it!!

Thanks for the science portion invite of farcaster here. I didn’t see it prior to your posts.