Massive Marine Ecosystem Crash Along Galicia’s Coast Due To Prolonged Atlantic Heatwave

[@jayleeper1512]

I live in what used to be a pristine wilderness. Lately, hundreds of people have moved here because of the beauty and peacefulness. As soon as they get here, they start destroying the place. There are the sounds of bulldozers, excavators and chainsaws going twenty four/seven. The wildlife is a nuisance so they shoot and kill everything that lives in the forest. The insect life that is the food base for the eco system are being sprayed with all kinds of chemicals because now they are a nuisance as well. Now all the birds are disappearing. When I say anything, they laugh and call me a liberal tree hugger and that Bill Krystal says the nature is more resilient than we think and it is fine. I say the only way you find out how resilient something is is when you break it. Soon, my paradise will be like the waste land they came here to escape. All I can do is shake my head in sadness.

[@Panzer_the_Merganser]

Right there with you - lived next to a national park for decades, until it was discovered as a haven for rich second-home assholes. Nothing but scalping mountains and polluting streams, and yes shooting animals that have more right to be there than any of us. Used to be surrounded by bees, butterflies, and fireflies. Now two keystone species of trees are a total loss due to drought and invasive, and it’s rare to see one bee. I treasure the memories I have of cool, mossy streams, shaded hills, and chilly high altitudes. Soon the memories will be all that is left.

[@davehendricks4824]

Join the growing crowd.

[@stanleykubrick8786]

Sounds like you live in Alberta, Canada

[@jayleeper1512]

@@stanleykubrick8786 I used to live in Alberta around Calgary but left several years ago. I go back to visit family and all the great places I used to canoe, hunt and fish are urban sprawl. It was getting that way when I left and that is why I did leave. I used to canoe and fish on Bearspaw Reservoir and the night before I left, I went for one last paddle. There was a big old beaver that used to swim along with me as I paddled. I went to where he lived and found him floating on the water, dead and bloated, shot through the head. I took that as an omen it was truly time to leave. I don’t think you can even get to the water now unless you are a rich property owner with a big house on the shore. Where I live now is turning into what I ran away from then. Sad.

[@JessicaTPeterson]

This is painful. The same is happening around here. I remember when the skies were clear and deep blue. Now hazy, full of dust and contrails. The forests were tall, cathedral-like, and fragrant. Now dead, beetle-killed, fallen in giant tangles, sun beating down on soil that needs shade, killing delicate forest floor plants and fungi. New neighbors race around noisily on 4 wheelers and snowmobiles, light the place up at night with their floodlights, spray poisons in their yards so only the lawn will grow, kill the wildlife. Why do they do it? Are they so afraid of dark, of quiet, of wildlife?

[@RefreshinglyMyself]

i walked into a market yesterday and i was shocked at how many hundreds of fish were packed into vacuum sealed bags in the freezer. Many, many different species. Octopus, anchovies, crabs, giant japanese spider crabs, cuttlefish, swordfish, mussels, sea cucumbers…. Wild caught, all of it. I know people must eat, but I feel at this point we need more regulation on wild harvesting. The ocean is already boiling and us over-fishing the animals that are barely surviving the heat is a recipe for extinction.

[@a.randomjack6661]

Only because of over-fishing, commercial fishing won't be viable by 2048. That's one study... plankton of both types are in decline as well as terrestrial photosynthesis. It's called "biosphere collapse", another topic to search about. 'Planetary boundaries' is also worth searching.

[@34ofaninchofbrain80]

Over 1 third of all fish taken out of the oceans every day ends up in pet food or the rubbish bin or turned into plant fertilizer. When all the fish are gone we are gone,,, but what do the world's governments do - nothing - they spend their time trying to convince people that a man can have babies.

[@TennesseeJed]

@@a.randomjack6661 Ecological overshoot, damn the maximum power principle!

[@bonniepoole1095]

Actually, people don't ned to eat seafood. I've been vegan for while now and scientific studies, including a study on identical twins show that veganism has health benefits over those who consume meat, fish and dairy produucts. Eating just plants also lowers out carbon footprint. According to the NIH, "Transitioning to plant-based diets (PBDs) has the potential to reduce diet-related land use by 76%, diet-related greenhouse gas emissions by 49%"

[@MrAgmoore]

Doesn't really matter at this point. When I was born in 1975, the population of the Earth was 4 billion. The population hit 8 billion when I was 48. If the powers that be really gave a shit about sustainability, the entire globe would have been doing aquaponics.

[@langdons2848]

"If we'd done something 20, 30 years ago..." This guys gets it. We are well beyond the point of being able to "fix" climate change. Now we're just along for the ride. Like the dolphins and otters.

[@EmeraldView]

We really are. 😕

[@pyroman2918]

We can't prevent it, but we can still determine how much worse it's going to get. There is a huge difference between 2C and 3C of warming

[@rrr33ppp000]

​@@pyroman2918 I'm sorry to crush your hopes but no, that's just another fallacy we've been told. Natural tipping points have been unchained (permafrost, desertification, marine currents...) and earth won't stop heating till it's equilibrium (much more than 2 or 3C). Plus, we are running out of fossil fuels, which will remove their aerosol effect and add some other degrees to the mix (see Hansen's faustian bargain).

[@langdons2848]

@@pyroman2918 it's certainly good to know what is happening and why, but there's probably very little difference between 2 and 3 degrees in terms of the outcome, which is going to be loss of habitat for life on earth. Doesn't really matter how you get there, it ends the same way.

[@pyroman2918]

But the ecosystem loss, extinction is going to be greater with higher warming. It matters if 30% of species go extinct or 60% or 90%

[@TennesseeJed]

We live among relatives, not resources.

[@martiansoon9092]

Without resources... You would live outside in wilderness... Or more specific in empty space. Without resources... You would not wear clothes. Without rseources... You would not live in a house. Without resources... You would not eat. Without resources... You would not drink. Without resources... You would not breathe. Without resources... You would not live. You need resources to stay alive.

[@juliebarks3195]

E Coffeehouse should have this guy on,

[@TennesseeJed]

@@martiansoon9092 That is true, of course. Our biological overshoot and production of waste that no other creature can use for resources is hurting the basis of our existence though. We are not separate from these things as modernity suggest. We depend on a multitude of things we barely understand to provide the system that nourishes our existence. Those things are kindred, and if we keep killing them with our waste carbon, heat and chemical compounds we will perish too.

[@TennesseeJed]

@@juliebarks3195 No, I am only repeating the things I learned from folks like them.

[@snowstrobe]

@@martiansoon9092 It is the fact that you see them as 'resources' that is the problem... this is a relational issue.

[@bonniepoole1095]

Here in the US, no one seems to care about their personal responsibility for the climate catastrophe. They are all driving for pleasure, taking trips to foreign places, buying clothing that lands up in the landfill and filling the kitchen with platic trash and plastic wrap. Corporations get their money from us! We dont' need government regulations we need to regulate ourselves! We need movement that supports the idea that happiness isn't consumerism but is nature, friends, and a simple life.

[@farmishlypermaculture8631]

and even the people who are aware of the problem seem to now excuse it by saying it's "too late". Is it ever "too late" to stop doing the wrong thing? We're raping the planet to death and now we have proof that's the net effect of our actions. Instead of being horrified that our legacy is as rapists, we're using the excuse that the victim is already going to die to justify being rapists, ourselves. It's heartbreaking that we want this life even knowing what it really is. People always imagine that if they lived in the time of slavery, they would fight back against it, but by not changing our behavior, we're proving nothing has changed and we're just as evil as our ancestors, except the suffering we're dumping into the world is not limited to our species, it's all species, everywhere, and we each have a hand in it every time we turn up a thermostat or drive to get groceries. By not changing our ways, we're proving we're the bad guys.

[@BongRipBing]

US culture is a cancer, and it is spreading to other nations and places around the world.

[@graziflorida4377]

they are, don't worry, they are

[@graziflorida4377]

We are going extinct as we speak, by 2026 i don't think there will be much life around this Planet

[@rd264]

true. my generation cheered Earth Day1970. I was 15 then. My generation said they wanted to save the earth from polluters. But todays kids dont even say they care about it.

[@adrianmacfhearraigh4677]

Mirror mirror on the wall, who's the dumbest of all the species on Earth? The one that foolishly only looks and admires itself in me and misses all the wonder and beauty reflected by Life.

[@raclark2730]

Was not always that way, it is not the species it is the direction of mentality among some of the species.

[@NickDonnetelli]

Right, a consciousness level failure to appreciate wild life. I keep thinking we'll need a collapse to be humbled to then attain a higher consciousness, at least for those making it thru a population bottleneck.

[@raclark2730]

@@NickDonnetelli No we just need to roll sleaves up and start fixing things. No need to go full mental.

[@ChickpeatheTortie]

@@raclark2730 What the 99%

[@raclark2730]

@@ChickpeatheTortie No its way less than than that. This is just one of the many ages of degeneration. It will pass.

[@poigmhahon]

With a lifelong love of the ocean....raised on the Northwest Coast of North America, my mom, a biologist, would take us to the tide pools at a 4:00AM low tide, we went to the last operating whaling station in North America and saw them carving up the carcasses ...commercial fisherman for the first half of my working life (until I met my sweet wife) I've seen the decline firsthand....I lost her almost three years ago now.....I'm seeing abrupt and catastrophic declines in local insects and birds here where I live....I remember as a kid watching Jacques Cousteau marine documentaries with him saying in his indelible voice "as go the oceans, so go we"...and yes, I'm also having a hard time processing my grief...in so many ways.

[@farmishlypermaculture8631]

I'm right there with you, including the loss. When I saw the ecosystem I grew up alongside, collapse into one or two species of bottom feeders, then realized it was the air above the ocean that was the pressure causing the decline, I was paralyzed. We're living in a bubble of life with nothing on the other side, that contracts every time we burn a gram of fossil fuel. Disease, pests, cancer, novel viruses - all artifacts of an ecosystem, crashing... but we also seem incapable of imagining something more important than our comfort or a way of life that doesn't demand destruction. I've gotten to the point where I can't separate by personal grief from my grief for the collapse of the ecosystem. I can't help but see BAU as an act of violence and have lost my capacity to be complicit. In my quest to live a low carbon life, I've lost everything... because money and profit are the tokens of the enslavement and torture of the ecosphere. Everyone I talk to thinks I've lost my mind and I can't tell if I have or not; how can anyone continue in a pursuit they know to be the act that's ending the future of life? How can we be willing agents in our own extinction? All I want is to spend what days I have left living as a human being on/with the living planet, but to survive and to have anyone willing to be by my side, I have to pretend to care about the machine we built to tear the whole world down. I feel like a nazi and I hate it.

[@Ashitaka255]

Thank you for this incredibly moving interview. We must FEEL the impact of climate change, not just understand it on an intellectual level.

[@demontrader1222]

That's the problem. Too much feelings, not enough systemic logic. We feel we have a right to be middle class. We feel we have a right to free...ie capitalism. We don't think of the consequences.

[@farmishlypermaculture8631]

@@demontrader1222 I don't think it is. I think people always imagine they understand the problem and the feelings associated... until they actually experience it, and then it changes your entire frame of reference for reality, evil, and horror. I'm convinced that, no matter the political affiliation, if anyone could experience what I have and felt the emptiness on the other side of our actions, they wouldn't be able to burn fossil fuels without feeling physically nauseous.

[@Osoyoos-Wine-Tasting]

5-15 degree C temperatures above normal. All the fish will be gone soon, then us. So Sad.

[@usernametaken5619]

Do people really think we can sit back and watch all life in the oceans die and it won't affect us? When the seas die humanity will die as well shortly thereafter.

[@alanj9978]

Well. We already ate most of the fish.

[@a.randomjack6661]

@@alanj9978 Most? 40% of fish caught by trawlers is bycath and thrown back to sea, dead or dying. Then there's all the fish thrown away in the distribution line and in kitchens. We might be over 50% here... we do throw way 35% of our food.

[@farmishlypermaculture8631]

so stop. do literally anything else with your life except perpetuating the paradigm of destruction. It's not about whether your contribution matters, it's about not living a life of destruction and pain, and leaving that as your only legacy.

[@a.randomjack6661]

@@kingmantheman We are ran by junkies, "profit junkies"

[@timeenoughforart]

We have a similar collapse off the west coast of the United States. The sea weed died and led to the cascading collapse. On land we get the drought, fires, invasives, habitat loss, etc. East, west, north, south we can not escape, but we do manage to ignore. I think of all the people I knew who kept smoking even after a diagnosis of cancer. The drug addicts and alcoholics who just could not stop. The mentally ill who refused medication. The heart breaking part is I've known those who quit and beat cancer, found sobriety, or live full lives with mental conditions. We don't have time. What we have is denial. We have the knowledge it did not have to be this way.

[@aaronfranklin324]

Your denial is about your use of potent biotoxins in agriculture and forestry. They are industrial mining leaching agents patented on the 1950s as such, and branded as weedkillers and defoliants in the Vietnam War. This is your fault for allowing this. Not the lie of anthropogenic induced climate change, or any heatwaves.

[@a.randomjack6661]

We are ran by junkies, "profit junkies" Which is why of "The Top ten Jobs that Attract Psychopaths' (article) CEO is number one. 'Our politicians are interchangeable figureheads on the pirate ships of the Corporatocracy Empire'

[@EcoSailor]

Homo sapiens, the deluded apes.

[@timeenoughforart]

@@aaronfranklin324 I would ask you to explain how I managed to allow this, but obviously I'm not smart enough to grasp my agency prebirth. No don't bother explaining, let me suffer in my shame.

[@aaronfranklin324]

@@timeenoughforart I'm not pointing the finger at you directly, but the world's population, particularly the US, who, simply by choosing to eat toxic food like grass seed wheats etc "dessicated" by Glyphosate, Corn and animals fed it that is "Dessicated" by Atrazine, Any products containing GE roundup tolerant soy, or peas or beans, The practice of plantation forestry where they are spraying after felling, before replanting, as often as they can.... You have to take on board that more money is being made from leaching all these strategic and trace minerals out, then dredging rivers and harbours to harvest them than the forestry and food industries. It's also the pretending it's not these chemicals, but marine heatwaves and climate change that is yours to be ashamed about. It is the practice of keeping one's mouth shut for generations from the people who know that this is what is going on, for the sake of their paychecks. Or because they think they can do. Nothing about it, so they prefer to not think or speak. I don't have this shame. I don't Eat these foods, I don't use the Rubbish plantation grown pinus radiata timber, I shout from the rooftops and explain to everyone I can that this is why all the shellfish on our coasts and estuaries have died, and most of the fish that breed or live there too. How about you start doing the same? And encourage everyone you can to do this too. Then you can deserve to feel good. It's not acceptable to keep your trap shut rather than tell people they are full of it, when they claim that humans increasing the availability of the carbon all life here is made of is killing that life. Feelings are NOT more important than truth.

[@PNW_Marxist]

I'm really grateful to see climate scientists speaking out against the mainstream 'well things are bad but they'll be better later!' media BS. I know your work may come off as alarming but quite frankly noone is alarmed remotely enough for just how bad of a situation humanity has made for itself.

[@em945]

Bless You, Nick. Stay well. Bless us All. I watch very little climate change information now. I am too front line to issues being on farmland. I cry enough. My brain hurts with obliviousness and ignorant, damaging behaviour I am in the middle of, that is heading us 180 degrees away, at speed from what will be required and even permitted by Governing bodies. Big Nature will work out what to do, but it will messier and messier. No wonder the kids have their eyes on their phones.

[@ReesCatOphuls]

I'm pretty hardened to the bad news (expecting it, that is), but this is hard hitting. Yikes (again).

[@Ashitaka255]

Not just numbers on a chart. You can see and feel the pain that Guillermo Díaz Agras feels having to witness mass death like this.

[@jamesmckenna8092]

This is heartbreaking. Feels more poignant as Santiago is the pilgrim’s destination on the Camino. Galicia is also part of our Celtic family and the sea is very much a part of our cultural DNA. Thanks for sharing this video, Nick. 🙏

[@WhoeverNevermind]

I live in Spain, I constantly read about environmental issues, and I had no idea this was a thing. I can't even find anything online unless I specifically search for it. Thank you for sharing.

[@widescreen8964]

This is exactly what's needed Nick, well done. I was in the same rut. Now I'm about to cry.

[@DRpokeme]

I quote,' Life will go on, until it stops' We are looking down the barrel of a gun. Sadly it won't take long.

[@farmishlypermaculture8631]

People are noticing change in a system that's been a constant on earth for millions for years. If change is inside living memory, that's a planet that's in exponential runaway.

[@markshira7810]

Thank you for mentioning geoingeneering. Everyone else is silent on this subject. Thank you for getting the truth out there. Excellent report!

[@DrSmooth2000]

Smart to keep it in members section Geoengineering is almost as unpopular as GW

[@lshwadchuck5643]

Well, you have been busy! This is very sad. Up the Revolution!

[@brazendesigns]

I lived there 20 years ago. This is so incredibly sad to see. The seafood was so fresh and unlike anywhere else. Almejas are really not like clams elsewhere. Thanks for reporting on this.

[@commongivemeanicknam]

Thanks for bringing this to attention

[@MarneeMadsen]

Thanks you for presenting this devastating information Nick. You've always done great work but seeing the impacts and taking them to heart takes a lot of courage. It is so painful but far better than the gaslighting, hopium and outright lies that are pervasive. Our kin deserve at least our honesty and grief.

[@EpicTomorrows]

Thanks Nick. We appreciate you.

[@mlbh2os211]

Thank you for telling it straight. We are in deep sh!t.

[@russellgibbon8621]

I have a great love for Galicia, the "Gallegos". I saw and experienced the marine abundance and beauty there, during the Eighties. This video is fantastic but very obviously deeply saddening and worrying . . . show me some coastline where these problems are NOT apparent . . . Thank you for making this video.

[@patersjy]

Thanks

[@finishedarticle7953]

I applaud your generosity, Sir/Madam!

[@PeggyEscobar-v8j]

Thank you for this.

[@cora5445]

Thank you Nick Breeze for fighting the good fight, it must be tough dealing with this day in, day out. Even if the news is bad and hard to hear, its still important that we hear it and thanks again for your important work, take care and godspeed.

[@NickBreeze]

Thank you for the kind encouragement.

[@Nick-yz9fd]

Probably influencing the aggression of the whales in the area.

[@EcoSailor]

The Rias Baixas were Spain's best kept secret but even they are not safe from short sighted deluded apes. It is, regrettably, unsurprising to learn that the marine ecosystem is collapsing along the Galician coast. Percebes and zamborinas will be long lost memories. The local fishing industry must also shoulder some of the blame as the most common rubbish we collected from the Atlantic beaches in the winter of 2022/23 was fishing industry waste from the ubiquitous shellfish flotillas. 😢

[@lejbonk99]

We have no right to ruin any species ability to exist. This is not only man's earth. Every living being on this planet including trees have the right to maintain their place and life. We are not superior to any being. If anything we are much less superior as we do not play well with others in our beautiful playground.

[@seitanbeatsyourmeat666]

Go vegan 🌱

[@lejbonk99]

​@@seitanbeatsyourmeat666I did 10 yrs ago

[@NickDonnetelli]

At this point humans only accept the spoken word as having power. Let's hope that can change.

[@MyLoganTreks]

We are experiencing spinning fish from a neurotoxin in the Florida Keys where we also are experiencing high water temperatures .. scientists don't know what is causing it, but this neurotoxin in the scallops and oysters in this film sounds like something similar going on here also. #spinningfish #flkeys #climatechange

[@freeheeler09]

Heartbreaking! Same thing is happening in the Western US. Our forests are zombie forests, living, standing dead.

[@LievenSerge]

This video could be eye-opening to those who have not accepted the facts by today. Thank you for your work. We need a revolution.

[@buensomeritano1755]

We stuff our faces with seafood and wonder why the oceans are dying and the animals are disappearing. Quit eating the animals.

[@gabrielraphael8084]

Thank you for your work. This is very informative. I can only hope we will find a way to become still and peaceful and stop this devastation.

[@petrlonsky2332]

I think, this video is very important, because shows not rising temperatures, not melting of ice somewhere on the other side of planet, but shows very profound and concrete consequences of climate change in ecosystems very close in Europe. I am so sorry, hearing those numbers of death dolphins 😥 it must hit everybody deeply

[@NickBreeze]

It's a small stretch of coast. These impacts are happening very far and wide.

[@petrlonsky2332]

@@NickBreeze I know it. But media emphasize only coral reef bleaching and sea turtles, sometimes ice bears. It seems then, that rising temperatures influence only some of those ecosystems. Interview like yours is rare. If you put "marine ecosystem crash in spain" to Google machine, you get results only relevant to plastic balls on beaches. And find something about massive deaths of dolphins is hardly impossible. Thank You very much 🌍🕊

[@markfrancis5164]

Bit by bit, then all of a sudden… They will wonder what happened after we told them it was happening and why.

[@T.R.75]

too many people, not enough resources. the math just doesnt work. enjoy whats left, try to be good too each other. wish you all well.

[@cynicalpenguin]

Too many people wanting to live beyond the earth's means*

[@T.R.75]

@@cynicalpenguin very true.

[@djtangable7550]

@@cynicalpenguin This opinion fails to recognize without the haber process, planet Earth could reasonably sustain about half a billion people without any mining inputs. Our great great grandparents mined out all of the natural phosphorus and nitrogen stores the planet created over 4 billion years of geological time and they spread this material over the nature they destroyed and declared as farmland, whatever ecosystem it was, same story. Now right when humanity couldn't seem to get any more material and was collapsing, a german scientist Franz Haber made a chemical weapon to kill people with but instead it failed as a weapon and is now what we refer to as the haber process. The haber process compresses that air and applies heat so as to allow the air to become naturally liquid in said atmospheric condition which then allows the creation of ammonia. This ammonia is then used to fertilize the soil. The problem though, is ammonia is acidic and turning soil causes runoff of the hummus layer of soil which hosts the micro-bacteria and microscopic creatures that then cause the soil exchanges of carbon, nitrogen and water, each of which have their own natural cycle that meets here at this tiny little layer which when you turn over and over and continue to acidify, deteriorates and over time results in that soil no longer being usable. Now for the last 60 years, we have known this, and to this date we understand that 60% of the worlds arable topsoil has been eroded away and no longer is capable of harboring the proper soil to grow the crops we use to sustain ourselves with. The fields become fallow, and it takes nature 1,000 years or so to restore that soil from this state. Our response for decades has been tear down more forest sir. We finally have reached a real tipping point where there isn't really more forest to go without kill the remaining 40% of life on this planet because mind you, right now, we are in the 6th great mass extinction event scientifically and our actions have driven the ecosystem of the planet to a breaking point and beyond. In the next 30 years, because of new population influx, we have to grow the last 500 years worth of food combined to date plus somehow do it without using any resources or we risk really cranking things beyond breaking. Like he said, the math really does not add up, we are in a lot of trouble going forward.

[@JemBowdenWatercolour]

Thank you, Nick. Keep going. And he's right about revolution, but I can't see it happening, at least not until things are beyond ghastly, and far far too late.

[@russtaylor2122]

Oh dear. Thanks for struggling through these nightmare scenarios and interviews, Nick. These are the truths that mainstream media avoid like the plague. Gee, i wonder why? Keep buying stuff and turning a blind eye everyone...!

[@NickBreeze]

Thanks Russ

[@russtaylor2122]

@@NickBreeze You're welcome. I hear the frustration, anguish and helplessness in your voice. Many of us share your agonies, Nick....

[@JBaxter-pi8oj]

Thank you for sharing this information. It's horrifying. Could we please stop pandering to the greedy corporations who refuse to think about the consequences of their "business"?

[@kirsten7072]

Thank you that interview and vidéo

[@markus_selloi]

The soil has to be worked as soon as possible!! We have to reduce run off with earth works. Our landscape is understandably designed to have water flowing away, but we HAVE to change this. This seems like a thing we can make a lot better very quickly.

[@lambdasun4520]

It's so over. Hope the next civilization will be more intelligent than us... their archaeologists will laugh at our stupidity. Political solutions clearly don't work. I'm doing civil disobedience in Thoreau's style since years but that's not enough and makes my life difficult.

[@cosmicenigmarevealed]

Greed is the problem not change.

[@mr.richardryan7506]

It will get worse, much worse.

[@heidibrault1313]

Great interview!

[@Bowl_sessions]

The Revolution has been televised! Nice gonzo piece nick! 👌 hala Galicia ! 💙🤍💙

[@NickBreeze]

Gracias hombre.

[@DJCatscratch]

excellent vid. thank you for sharing this.

[@Conus426]

This video should serve as a wake up call

[@Azamat421]

Too late

[@StabilisingGlobalTemperature]

Sea surface temperature has risen significantly since the cut of sulphur from ship fuel. And according to Leon Simons and James Hansen it is only going to get worse. Guillermo mentioned that marine health was getting worse since 2015. That is when sulphur was cut from ships in European waters. 2020 was when it was cut worldwide. The oceans are being subject to an inadvertent geoengineering experiment, in the wrong direction. There has been a hugely significant increase in solar flux particularly into the north Atlantic and north Pacific (major shipping routes) relative to before sulphur was cut. Some people do not like this fact, and seek other explanations, but they cannot - because in the southern Atlantic and southern Pacific these has not been such a sharp increase in solar flux.

[@kevinguyan522]

We must suggest that we drop the “R” from REVOLUTION , because the state knows how to deal with the R WORD. What they don’t know how deal with is a COLLECTIVE EVOLUTION.

[@nobody687]

Wasf. Co2 and methane release is at record highs . Nothing is even slowing down. Whats worse is that the permafrost has crossed the tipping point. Theres no stopping it now. Again wasf

[@a.randomjack6661]

You forgot Terrestrial photosynthesis decline, tipping point in 2 decades phytoplankton decline zooplankton/krill decline insect decline oceanic dead zones increase ocean acidification ocean stratification Jet stream getting more erratic AMOC slowdown ice and snow cover decline cooling stratosphere (2 causes) Only people whom are interested by profits over everything else run the Corporatocracy Empire' And... 'Our politicians are interchangeable figureheads on the pirate ships of the Corporatocracy Empire' See history book "The true flag". There are many other good ones, but this one explains a lot and Mark Twain is in there.

[@zoecohen9071]

Hi Nick, thank you for this. That you've had a break/pause to really process what's going on right now really resonated with me. I've kinda done similar to try to make sense of the off the charts acceleration

[@NickBreeze]

I hope you are well, Zoe. I realised a level of shock and subsequently had to close the gap between abstract climate data and this material death that is occurring right before us in realtime.

[@zoecohen9071]

@@NickBreeze thank you Yes I witnessed a mass fish death in a local river first hand last year, due to the heat and deoxygenation. It was devastating. And they were happening all over the UK and media weren't talking about it

[@Mike80528]

"It's too late". Yes. Yes, it is. But we still need to do what we can to extend what time may be available, and I think the only way to do that is to come to terms with our inevitable fate. It's no longer about saving us, at least in my mind, it's about giving Life as much time as possible. Maybe we make it, probably we don't...

[@seitanbeatsyourmeat666]

Go vegan 🌱

[@lorimason2288]

@@seitanbeatsyourmeat666 you like being the best person in the room, right? kinda like bike riders and yeah, I hope you dont beget or birth a child

[@Spice1_]

Thank you

[@jedturner9173]

wow wow wow, unreal, thank you Nick for bringing this important news

[@farmishlypermaculture8631]

I've seen and felt this very thing on in oceans and lakes of eastern Canada. I thought everyone knew we had to stop this way of life and were just waiting for "proof" that we could feel as individuals before we stopped. Now that proof is manifest and people are divided into still being blind to it (somehow) or deciding there's nothing we can do, so we might as well keep doing the same thing... never having tried anything else. I stand paralyzed in disbelief that the "good guys" of the world could use the same excuses as the villains we hunt for crimes against individual animals, like poaching, to continue down a path we are certain ends in our destruction... and what we're doing is infinitely more cruel, by corrupting the world life needs to survive rather than removing a single living thing in a cruel way. It's as if it's easier to accept the idea of extinction than it is to accept that our way of life is wrong. I still struggle with knowing that the legacy of my life will be a millions year blank spot in the fossil record, with the optimism that the climate stabilizes and life returns. How could any of this be worth that cost? Why aren't we begging for a global general strike and a new path to follow, knowing now that we're agents of an avoidable apocalypse? Instead, people are doing disaster tourism in helicopters to see glaciers before they disappear, as if it's not specifically them in that helicopter and the actions that gave them those resources that's causing glacial retreat. Whenever I have this conversation, people ask "what else am I supposed to do?" as if they've earned a replacement for the behavior that's destroying their own lives. You shouldn't need a reason to stop a behavior that's causing your own extinction. It's like begging someone not to play with hand grenades and them responding with "until you've got some kind of electric hand grenade..." as if that's the issue. I knew we were stubborn. I didn't know we were villains with a death wish.

[@ArneBab]

There are governments and people in governments who fight to protect our climate. Instead of calling for a revolution, we need to learn to support and strengthen those who are doing what’s right within the structures - and change structures incrementally for the better. Revolutions destroy far more than they improve, and they usually just switch the second level of powerful people and the first.

[@graziflorida4377]

It is not just local, it is World impact. LIFE IS DISAPPEARING, HUMANS INCLUDED

[@thunderstorm6630]

with this news, do you really think there is much work to do? I start thinking it is finally the time to realise the fact that it is too late to save anything. we all are in hospice.

[@johngray1439]

That's for sure😢 65 childless and glad of it, but this Global Collapse is still so very very sad.

[@thunderstorm6630]

@@johngray1439 me 47 an also childless and very glad of it too. I coundln't bear to see my children suffer.

[@wind-leader_jp]

The types of fish that can be caught in Japan are already changing. In addition, small fish generally have short migration distances, so their numbers are drastically decreasing. The rise in ocean water temperature is said to be 5 to 7 times hotter than the atmospheric temperature, so major changes are currently occurring. The other day, it was broadcast on TV that there are more coral reefs in Tokyo Bay, and that tropical fish that didn't live there in the past are swimming there even in the winter. There was a topic about shellfish, and Japanese research explained that as a result of CO2 dissolving in the ocean, the ocean changes from weakly alkaline to acidic, making it difficult to make shells. If we were to take action globally right now, it would be to stop factory production at night, when solar panels are not generating power, for several years. In hot weather, it is important to use passive cooling to consume as little electrical energy as possible.

[@Tyranthraxus78]

So do we enjoy life and spend all our savings now, or hold onto them as the world crumbles? 😢

[@GetFochD]

Start arming and organising yourselves.

[@QT5656]

It's a good question.

[@seitanbeatsyourmeat666]

Go vegan 🌱

[@GetFochD]

@@seitanbeatsyourmeat666 That won't do a lot

[@Jc-ms5vv]

Live like there’s no tomorrow

[@GhostOnTheHalfShell]

The die off is really happening ..

[@martiansoon9092]

Seems like AMOC is not shutting down. It is just divering its course from subpolar gyre to Golf stream... At least one study says that more melting waters from Arctic means stronger Golf stream. And it diverts toward Greenland too. Study links Spanish/middle/south Europe heatwaves to the Golf stream behivior too. This change is also messing up the jet streams.

[@michaelrynn2465]

Biosphere crash in progress . . . so fossil fuel powered resource grab continues - if there is a lot, we can take a lot, if there is a little we take it all.

[@paxwallace8324]

When the Oceans die so do we. The last time the Oceans died was 250 million years ago. That's called the Permian Extinction. The Oceans heated up became acidic then stinky pink slimy anaerobic 95% of all life died on Earth.

[@paulzozula1318]

There are no good choices other than doing our best to sufficiently address what's going on. There is no viable alternative. In addition to bringing down emissions as soon as possible, we could leverage land and sea ecosystem restorations in order to draw down resident greenhouse gases. However, if we are not able to preserve major systems such as both the boreal and tropical forests, especially the Amazon Basin, we are toast. To avoid this we must develop benign ways of reducing temperature with well thought out and carefully deployed SRM.

[@cindyforbess8449]

Noticing numerous things of nature changing here in Louisiana also most folks however are blind

[@stanleykubrick8786]

Amazing. A disaster well under way. Thank you.

[@Devo491]

As Roger Waters wrote: 'Give any one species too much rope and they'll fuck it up'.

[@Enlightened_Ape78]

It's such an odd feeling knowing that you're slowly heading to your death, but you can't do anything to stop it. This summer is going to be cataclysmic.

[@seitanbeatsyourmeat666]

Go vegan 🌱

[@jb-fp2vs]

humans are only watching their cell phones so they will never know till they can no longer buy food

[@jocelynevkb5889]

Very sad to witness the collapse of ecosystems in one's lifetime. It's a worldwide phenomena & does require nothing less than a global Eco-Revolution. Increased temperatures in the Southern Hemisphere oceans are also causing irreversible kelp die backs, marine life migrations & unprecedented loss of biodiversity. Not to mention ever more severe coral reef bleaching events in tropical waters!

[@tordkarl]

Guy McPherson will be proved right soon.

[@oceanbreeze1440]

McPherson has claimed no humans left on earth by 2030?

[@johngrundowski3632]

Thanks for the program, to go from 2seasons to 1 temp. the currents may stop soon in the atlantic.They are slowing. Bringing in other species sounds like a band aid.

[@mfwagged]

Thank you for reporting on this unacceptable human-caused tragedy.

[@klimaalarm]

thx for sharing

[@beccig2216]

Hi Nick, I have just stumbled across your video, thank you for bringing awareness to this. I first heard of the AMOC around 6 yrs ago, from Ben Davidson from Suspicious 0bservers Channel. Are you familiar with his channel? Blessings from Australia 🇦🇺

[@NickBreeze]

Hi, no. Will look. Thanks for feedback.

[@publicdomain1103]

Revolution, human evolution.

[@sailawayteam]

Very alarming. It's a shame how little the marine ecosystems (along with most other ecosystems) are appreciated in mainstream media. We still have too many "bearers of good news" like the Rosling family.

[@jb-fp2vs]

I liked. his comment to the question what should be done it will go on till it does not

[@melbournewolf]

We are one family, on one planet. WTF ?

[@glike2]

I hope the locals, scientists,and government cooperate to preserve the local species before extinction so that someday they can be restored

[@QT5656]

Corporate interests are more powerful than locals, scientists, and government so... no it won't stop.

[@brianwheeldon4643]

Nick this interview sounds like it could be describing New Zealand. The marine heatwaves around the country have been operating 9 months to a year over 3, 4 or more years. It's resulted in 10's of thousands of fish, penguins and other life dying. Because we're a southern hemisphere country with a small population there's not enough funding ( I guess ) not enough satellite cover and so on. In truth we don't know just how many fish are dying or bird life. We do know that in the first 4 months of 2022 I think it was, we landfilled 1330 tons of farmed salmon in pens in the South Island because of water temp rise. It feels out of control. Politicians in the 2 mainstream parties are (shit) it's the only thing to say about their behaviour. Fishing corps are worse. Complicity between the 2 of them makes them both morally and ethically bankrupt. I could go on and on Nick, but it's distressing to keep hearing and reading this . Thanks for what you're doing. Invaluable.

[@NickBreeze]

Thanks, Brian. That this is just one tiny stretch of coast is a key point. I spoke with people in the Med, saying the same thing. These are material consequences and the people in charge have no idea what to do, or in worst cases, how to behave.

[@brianwheeldon4643]

​@NickBreeze I understand completely Nick. Thank you

[@NomdeGuerre589]

Just wanted to say how shocking and unknown this is, even within Spain, even to someone who follows climate issues. Very little national coverage, in spite of recent regional elections. Mostly regional press. It's taboo I guess.

[@cynicalpenguin]

Mass die offs happen regularly, perhaps this is an anomaly and the ecosystem will recover? Or some of the wildlife will be able to migrate north? Obviously this sort of thing will become more regular and more deadly as time goes on but i hope we have more time before seeing such temperature related disasters on a wide scale.

[@Lioness_UTV]

With respect as I hear a need for hope in your words I don't think you are listening. This coastline is a 'canary in a coal mine' and is just one example of whats happening around the world. The seas are becoming more sterile due to the change in acidity and areas where there is a lack of oxygen are increasing. We have been warned about one of the biggest dangers and thats the slowing down of the world's sea currents. I sm simplifing it as I am no expert (easy to look up) it used to be a possibility but a huge IF now its a WHEN. This will be devastating to sea life as the whole food chain around the world will shift, be disrupted and will collapse. For instance this is how plankton and the smallest creatures profilerate around the world, once they're life cycle is disrupted the cascade up the food chain is unstoppable. Massive die offs of our largest whales and other mammal groups will be seen. So many unknowns but none of it is good. And as the world's currents slow down the effect on air currents is mirrored, all is linked and that will in turn has a huge effect on weather -->farming-->famines-->equal more wars, migrations of ppls-->illnesses increase... I know I sound like a doomsday siren 🚨 and I would be incredibly happy to be wrong. But as the world is wilfully ignoring all the signs and in some cases covering things up I just don't see how this escalation of a planets ecosystem barreling towards its death is stopable 😞

[@cynicalpenguin]

@@Lioness_UTV It's only that I try to avoid jumping to conclusions about the health of the Earth's ecosystems based on localised events. I know everything is screwed in the long run without orders of magnitude more of a response but over a shorter time frame temperatures do fluctuate and extreme weather events can occur in some regions without a wider or permanent impact, and without more data I'm cautious to conclude that what we're seeing here is part of a global chain of events or extreme tipping point as you imply. I'm curious as to why I can't find any information about this event other than this video; the other results are about plastic and an oil spill. It is depressing but I will try to educate myself further on it, thanks for your reply.

[@CatsInHats-S.CrouchingTiger]

This is so sad… 😞

[@hendrikbarboritsch7003]

Ironically, since the sulphur content of ships fuel oil has been legally reduced drastically in 2020, we have cleaner air, but also fewer white clouds forming over the Atlantic Ocean (in particular, because there is so much traffic). This may be the prime reason for the hot waters. The sulphur particulates are catalyst to water droplets condensating around them, thus the clouds. Then there is the effect of global dimming, which has been going on ever since humans have been burning fires. Now, in the US and EU, the air is cleaner than ever and more sun is getting through. Like during 9/11 when temps spiked over the US because no planes were polluting the air. Last year we also had El Nino, and the catastrophic sea ice loss around Antarctica. The sea ice of the North Pole receives much less sunlight, and also has a smaller area, than the southern sea, because the latter is much further from its pole. So there is a huge loss of albedo, and a lot of warming. To cool down the Poles, there will probably have to be some geo-engineering, spraying of particulates? If we don't try, we fry!

[@seitanbeatsyourmeat666]

Go vegan 🌱

[@SachinGanpat]

Revolution!

[@gustindun]

Al Gore told us !

[@richdiana3663]

How much of El Nino's wrath will we escape?

[@graziflorida4377]

" it is like a signal" lol.....the signal was 100 years ago dude

[@slussen6693]

I saw a video from britain a couple of years ago where they calculated that it was 12% more atmospheric moisture, that represent 1,8 celsius warmer atmosphere, that would mean that today we are over 2 celius warmer and it will Not Stop. and not to forget global dimming.

[@jatigre1]

If you ask most people, would you rather have cheap gasoline and an expensive SUV, or a planet to live, 99 per cent would prefer an SUV.

[@crisismanagement]

Paul Beckwith talks about the same kinds of things. Don't worry. The crisis that face mankind are being managed.

[@davehendricks4824]

😂👍

[@JohnMullee]

'managed' with a stiff drink

[@davehendricks4824]

Unfortunately, the earth has turned into a ball of meat on a spit, getting broiled by the sun.

[@ChickpeatheTortie]

Its the poor dolphins my heart breaks for.

[@Insideoutie]

And this is only the start.