More Dead Canaries

This from the Times on the crashing snow crab fishery: Miranda Westphal, a biologist with the state’s fish and game department, said on Friday that it was investigating why the crab population was declining. “From 2018 to 2021, we lost about 90 percent of these animals,” Ms. Westphal said. Alaska is the fastest warming state in the United States, according to Climate Central, an independent group of scientists who research and report about changing climate. And rising temperatures in Alaska’s cold waters may be killing the crustaceans. A few more people out of work, another ecosystem collapsing, another day, another dollar. I don't eat crab so without this article I wouldn't even feel the effect but this is how it comes down, a thousand small cuts, an extinction here, an extinction there. And we are only talking about a small degree of warming, a couple of degrees in water temp, thats how fragile the whole thing is. The other thing that isn't able to sink in, that people seem unable to fuly comprehend, is that this is not a strictly linear process. As I've said over and over and over to no avail, there are tipping points. Points where runaway feed back loops become self-generating and the effects cascade. You don't want to get there.