Scientists now link massive starfish die-off, warming ocean

[NickB79]

7. It's not how much the water varies from month to month. It's the sustained high temps

Which is what we are now seeing with climate change: ocean waters routinely hitting temperatures, and staying at those temperatures, that in centuries past were hit only rarely, sometimes not for years between.

It's just like what's occurring on land. Once-in-a-century heatwaves and droughts are now happening once every decade, killing forests that otherwise survive temperature swings from -30F to 100F annually.

What IS funny is certain DU'ers who try to link Fukushima's radiation leak into the Pacific Ocean with starfish dieoffs that are occurring in the Atlantic Ocean. Or certain DU'ers who are trying to link radiation in general to starfish dieoffs that were first documented in the 1970's.

Hilarious, don't you think?