{"id":113390,"date":"2020-09-24T15:25:07","date_gmt":"2020-09-24T22:25:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/09\/the-massive-blob-anomaly-has-our-fingerprints-all-over-it-study-finds"},"modified":"2020-09-24T15:25:07","modified_gmt":"2020-09-24T22:25:07","slug":"the-massive-blob-anomaly-has-our-fingerprints-all-over-it-study-finds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/09\/the-massive-blob-anomaly-has-our-fingerprints-all-over-it-study-finds","title":{"rendered":"The Massive \u2018Blob\u2019 Anomaly Has Our Fingerprints All Over It, Study Finds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/TdUsyXQ8Wrs?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>In 2013, a suffocatingly hot blob of water brewed in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of North America. It then decimated marine life.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/the-blob-has-been-implicated-in-an-unprecedented-mass-seabird-death\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Thousands of seabirds<\/a> washed up dead on shores, along with starving baby sea lions. Salmon, krill, and other marine animals vanished as the warmth fuelled a massive toxic algal bloom that also shut down crab fisheries.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fisheries.noaa.gov\/feature-story\/looking-back-blob-record-warming-drives-unprecedented-ocean-change\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Confused summer breeding fish<\/a> spawned during winter, while lost subtropical species such as swordfish and <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Pyrosome\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pyrosomes<\/a> appeared far outside their normal range. Over <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/gigantic-heatwave-brewing-in-the-pacific-threatens-a-return-of-the-blob\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">100 million Pacific cod<\/a> are thought to have perished.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 2013, a suffocatingly hot blob of water brewed in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of North America. It then decimated marine life. Thousands of seabirds washed up dead on shores, along with starving baby sea lions. Salmon, krill, and other marine animals vanished as the warmth fuelled a massive toxic algal bloom that [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-113390","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113390","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=113390"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113390\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}