On land, Australia’s rising heat is ‘apocalyptic.’ In the ocean, it’s worse.

12/29/19
 
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from The Washington Post,
12/27/19:

Climate change had arrived at Tasmania near the bottom of the world, and the giant kelp that flourished in its cold waters was among the first things to go.

Over recent decades, the rate of ocean warming off Tasmania, Australia’s southernmost state and a gateway to the South Pole, has climbed to nearly four times the global average, oceanographers say.

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