Must read: The Blob That Cooked the Pacific

This is a must-read.  Some stunning and scary pictures and information.

Between 2013 and earlier this year, some West Coast waters grew so astonishingly hot that the marine world experienced unprecedented upheaval. Animals showed up in places they’d never been. A toxic bloom of algae, the biggest of its kind on record, shut down California’s crab industry for months. Key portions of the food web crashed.

Source: The Blob That Cooked the Pacific