The UN just released a new ocean warming report
this week that was much more damning than this 2018 report. The report was issued by the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Control, and was pretty dire.
Among other things it said that the rate ocean temperatures are getting warmer has doubled since 1993, and if things aren't held in check somehow, we're looking at 5 to 7 times hotter oceans in the future (can't remember the exact time frame but it might have been 2100 and beyond?).
Because of ocean temperatures and other factors, the number of fish we'll be able to sustainably catch will drop by 25 percent by the end of the century. Plus with rising sea levels, a lot of coastal communities will be hugely impacted due to both the rising waters and less fish.
Just look at Hurricane Lorenzo if you don't believe ocean temperatures are rising - that's the first Cat 4 hurricane ever recorded that far out east in the Atlantic.
And to be honest, I'm not just concerned with ocean water temperatures rising, local streams, lakes and other bodies of water seem to be carrying dangerous bacteria. I have to look up the numbers but flesh-eating bacteria deaths due to people swimming in local lakes, etc., are at an all-time record high. That is one scary (and fast) death. We just had a 10 year old girl in Texas who died this month due to a bacterial brain-eating infection. That seems like the 3rd or 4th such death in the U.S. this summer alone.
https://www.engadget.com/2019/09/25/ipcc...ge-report/ (more on UN report)