Article on potential El Niño-related mass coral bleaching event in 2024

" (...) 2023 is the first year of a potential pair of El Niño years, with the warmest average global surface sea temperature from February to July on record. Since 1997, every instance of these El Niño pairs has led to a global mass coral bleaching event"

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/dec/07/unprecedented-mass-coral-bleaching-expected-2024-professor-ove-hoegh-guldberg

Bleak perspective - here's to hoping Prof. Ove Hoegh-Guldberg's warnings are overly alarmist...

Edited December 11, 20232 yr by bghazzal