On Sunday August 28th, my phone blew up with reports of dead fish lining the shores of San Francisco Bay. San Francisco Baykeeper had been tracking a harmful “red tide” algae bloom since late-July. Given what we understood of the specific algae causing this bloom and the vast expanse of San Francisco Bay it now covered, we knew a substantial fish kill was possible. But nothing could have prepared us for the sight of hundreds of sturgeon and striped bass washing up on beaches, or schools of smaller fishes gasping for air. San Francisco Bay has not experienced such a prolonged or widespread algal bloom or a fish kill this devastating in recorded history.
Greenhouse gaslighting and California’s water crisisSource: My Climate Journey