December 7, 2018
by Source
By Brett Warnke
The ocean water is getting warmer. But our kelp like the cold. So what, right? The fly-blown smelly kelp ruins the beaches, anyway! Well, the precious kelp is a temporary ecosystem. Our species in Southern California, the Giant Kelp, needs to live or else an entire ecosystem will be disrupted. This “foundational species” then needs less heating, not more and if nothing is done their numbers will degrade with terrible results for life beneath the sea.
Lais Lima is a doctoral student at SDSU’s Dinsdale Lab. She has spent time diving in the waters around Point Loma, down in the cool waters our kelp love so much. But Scripp’s recently recorded the highest-ever seawater temperature of 78.6 degress, following a series of individual daily records of sea-surface and seafloor temperatures. In Lima’s beautiful dives around LaJolla and Point Loma she has seen a change in the temperature of the water, the thermocline.
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December 7, 2018
by Frank Gormlie
Dear friends of the Ocean Beach Green Center,
We will not be having any activities this month because we are moving December 2nd. We will be busy setting up our new center. We will be moving across the street to Jim Bell’s property. ….
Every Saturday at 10:00 a.m. Dec 1st, 8th, 15th, 22nd, and 29th. Climate Mobilization Coalition Meeting Ocean Beach People’s Cooperative Community Room, 4765 Voltaire Street. Come help plan for the upcoming Climate Action events. Contact: oceanbeachgreencenter@gmail.come
December 14th Friday 6:00 p.m. – 7:00 p.m. Vigil to End Gun Violence,
December 16th Sunday 2:00 p.m. – 4:30 p.m. Free Film: 1948: Creation & Catastrophe
Point Loma/Hervey Library 3701 Voltaire St. 92107. Jewish Voice for Peace – San Diego Chapter and The American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee, San Diego Chapter present a documentary film about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict
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