high of 93 and then midnight next Sunday and Monday Kristie, well, as Betty just talked,
right now, Florida is just
sizzling with these record
crushing heat and that’s already
having destructive impacts on
our local ecosystems. High water
temperatures are concerning
scientists monitoring, extreme
weather events happening all
over the planet from our
depleting coral reefs to the
threat of another fish kill in
Biscayne Bay. But climate hits
home is tonight’s don’t Our
Treasure. On a sweltering July,
marine scientists calling
forward heads to the shore at.
Crandon Park Beach, all credible
extremely worried about
unrelenting triple digit heat
that for more than a month have
been smothering South Florida. I
Don’t think we’ve seen this type
of early this early in the year
ever in recorded history forward
is a coral biologist co-founder
of Coral Morphologic that hosts
a coral camp at Port Miami. Even
for the super resilient urban
corals that thrive at government
cut these surface temperatures
are. It’s 94 degrees Fahrenheit
in this water here 94 degrees is
just extremely hot. No Marine
life is going to be happier,
healthier water that that means
that corals begin to stress out
when water temperatures exceed
86 degrees. In fact Ward says
that some of the reefs in the
Keys are already experiencing
when an ocean that’s warm causes
corals flush out the life giving
algae in tissues, turning them
white. When a coral bleaches, it
is starving, loses its access to
the sunlight the coral can no
longer photosynthesize and
basically it’s got to live off
of its fat reserves and if that
goes on until September October
unfortunately we could be
looking a massive coral die off
here in south Florida concerning
because Florida’s reef has
already lost than 90% of its
coral cover and with
temperatures this high so on in
the summer, 40 years this could
spell it you know if bleaching
starts now in early July it
means that by October those
corals are probably going to be
down and that would be
devastating. The Sunshine State,
according NOAA, Florida’s coral
reefs represent, an $8.5 billion
annually in tourism dollars jobs
and help protect our coastlines
from catastrophic storm surge
during hurricanes. For climate
activists, yet another loud
alarm that our planet is on fire
. Our planet is screaming. Our
planet is telling us, you’re too
much carbon pollution into my
atmosphere and are facing the
consequences. Our D Rojo
underscores the need act with
more urgency, though we’re
starting to see clean renewable
being scaled too rapidly. Our
economy. We’re not doing it fast
enough. We to reduce the amount
of pollution that is warming
actually cooking our planet as
we speak. And Biscayne Bay is
also on the burner right now. We
are 11:30 a.m. and it’s 32.2.
It’s higher than expected for
time of the year. And if I use
of environment you see that
segments a noise ratio is where
students and scientists keeping
a close eye on the bay. As with
corals, these extremely
temperatures can trigger another
disaster for the fragile
watershed in the bass. Quiet and
it gets very, very hot. Yes
could have some problem. August
of 2020. Biscayne Bay
experienced an unprecedented
Fishkill with over 27,000 marine
animals suffocating to death in
the northern basin, a depletion
of oxygen in the water column
caused too much pollution. No
tidal flow and scorching
temperatures. We are hovering
between 31 and 32 degrees seas
that fish kill happen. We were
about 36 degrees is a little bit
above that. So we need to keep
an eye on it for. Research buoys
stationed in different locations
. The Bay provide real time to
24 seven monitoring what we’re
trying do is create that warning
system but. It’s only July and
scientists we’re already in the
grips of the hottest year on
record. You know, it’s almost
like our planet has, a fever.
And sadly, that’s what we’re
seeing across all of these
ecosystems really a global
problem. But we’re seeing the
local impacts right here in our
own backyards. Miami is already
spent more time above a 105 heat
index, and it ever has in any
recorded year since mid-June.
Weekly water temperatures. The
Gulf of Mexico have reached
levels, and the Gulf is the
warmest ever been the Midwest
Western Europe also in the grips
a heat wave as scientists all
over the planet hold their
collective breath and watch what
happens. If you’d like to the
real time data coming in from
research bodies. It’s available
online. We have that link for
you to scan the QR code. We’ll
take you straight to they don’t
trash treasure section on local
.com and I hope people are
paying this is real and it’s
happening right now. Yeah and so
sad to see what could happen and
it’s so hot outside and it’s I
hate to say it but we need a