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I’m pretty sure that’s one of those urban myths. Stop peeing on your wounds.

Yeah, that’s caused by increased CO2 levels and not by the heating itself, so it is a reasonable hypotheses even given the wildly varying temperatures where this is happening.

That’s what I said in my second paragraph but with more guessing.

But where? If the amount of heating caused these bacteria to spring to life off Washington, then why weren’t they already a problem off Southern California, which is much more than one climate change warmer, or somewhere in between?

Sure, it can somehow lead back to climate change, or to us in some other way, but it’s not just that it’s a bit warmer now.

That was also my guess, but these creatures live(d) all up and down the Pacific coast, over a much wider range of climates than the 1.5°C change so far.