{"id":252177,"date":"2024-06-05T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-06-05T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.republicofgreen.com\/the-pollution-paradox-how-cleaning-up-smog-drives-ocean-warming\/"},"modified":"2024-06-05T09:10:41","modified_gmt":"2024-06-05T09:10:41","slug":"the-pollution-paradox-how-cleaning-up-smog-drives-ocean-warming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.republicofgreen.com\/the-pollution-paradox-how-cleaning-up-smog-drives-ocean-warming\/","title":{"rendered":"The pollution paradox: How cleaning up smog drives ocean warming"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>\n      <iframe style=\"margin: 0 auto 20px; width: 100%; height: 100px; border: none; display: none\" data-project-id=\"Yual8er4aaQbafhcldNK\" allowfullscreen=\"false\" allowtransparency=\"\" allow=\"clipboard-read; clipboard-write\" frameborder=\"0\" id=\"ad-auris-iframe\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe>\n    <\/p>\n<div class=\"article-partner-content\">\n        <em>This story was originally published by\u00a0Yale 360\u00a0and is reproduced here as part of the\u00a0Climate Desk\u00a0collaboration.<\/em>\n    <\/div>\n<p class=\"has-drop-cap has-default-font-family\">They call it \u201cThe Blob.\u201d A vast expanse of ocean stretching from Alaska to California periodically\u00a0warms\u00a0by up to 4 degrees Celsius (7 degrees Fahrenheit), decimating fish stocks, starving seabirds, creating blooms of toxic algae, preventing salmon returns to rivers, displacing sea lions, and forcing whales into shipping lanes to find food.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-default-font-family\">The Blob first formed in 2013 and spread across an area of the northeast Pacific the size of Canada. It lasted for three years and keeps coming back \u2014 most recently\u00a0last summer. Until now, scientists have been unable to explain this abrupt ocean heating. Climate change, even combined with natural cycles such as El Ni\u00f1o, is not enough.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-default-font-family\">But a new\u00a0analysis\u00a0suggests an&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/grist.org\/oceans\/pollution-paradox-how-cleaning-up-smog-drives-ocean-warming\/\"target=\"_blank\">Read full article originally published on grist.org<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This story was originally published by\u00a0Yale 360\u00a0and is reproduced here as part of the\u00a0Climate Desk\u00a0collaboration. They call it \u201cThe Blob.\u201d A vast expanse of ocean stretching from Alaska to California periodically\u00a0warms\u00a0by up to 4 degrees Celsius (7 degrees Fahrenheit), decimating fish stocks, starving seabirds, creating blooms of toxic algae, preventing salmon returns to rivers, displacing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":35,"featured_media":252178,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v20.0 (Yoast SEO v20.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>The pollution paradox: How cleaning up smog drives ocean warming - Republic of Green News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/grist.org\/oceans\/pollution-paradox-how-cleaning-up-smog-drives-ocean-warming\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The pollution paradox: How cleaning up smog drives ocean warming\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"This story was originally published by\u00a0Yale 360\u00a0and is reproduced here as part of the\u00a0Climate Desk\u00a0collaboration. 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