crisis. experts believe a perfect storm of low tide coinciding with the hottest part of the day exposed sea animals to the worst of the extreme heat. one marine ecologist discovered beds of dead mussels while on a walk in vancouver. she joins me now and an adjunct professor at the university of british columbia also with me, emily carrington, a professor of marine biology at the university of washington. i m so excited to talk to you. alyssa, first you told the washington post that this is the first time you ve ever seen anything with this magnitude of mortality. tell us what you saw. yeah, it actually started with a smell. i went down to the beach to cool off because it was incredibly hot and it just smelled like cooking shellfish, sort of rotten putrid cooking shellfish smell and that triggered alarms
what are you things people can do and should be doing to address what this tells us is wrong. i mean, this is a fundamental climate change issue. these animals can t move. this is where they live. and so we, unfortunately, the thing that needs to happen is we need to stop the progression of climate change in order to make this area livable for them. at the moment one of the things can you do if you live in an area with a beach nearby is go down and take images and see if you see dead mussels. and that will get us give us more information about how many died during this event. we only have 30 seconds left literally, emily, but is there one tangible thing you can say to people who are concerned go in that you can do this weekend? a change in your personal habits, for example. sure, anything that would reduce carbon emissions, so, you know, there s lots of things
that we can do in terms of changing our daily habits, changing our travel plans, using less fossil fuels and the other thing you can do is just support your local politicians, get involved locally and get involved nationally with our different policies. alyssa, emily, such an important topic and to the washington post for bringing this to our attention. thanks to all of you for watching us this hour. i m chris jansing in. hallie jackson will pick up our coverage next. t. and taking ibrance. ibrance with an aromatase inhibitor is for postmenopausal women or for men with hr+, her2- metastatic breast cancer as the first hormonal based therapy. ibrance plus letrozole significantly delayed disease progression versus letrozole.
for me and went and looked closer. you can see in these images mussels during low tide should be closed. they should be completely closed and holding water in to withstand the high temperatures and these had just all of them that i was looking at had died and you re seeing at the top of these rocks all of the mussels that were there died because were you just completely shocked? looking at these pictures, i can t believe what i m seeing? yeah, i had been worried about the high temperatures because of the coincidence with the low tides but hadn t expected anything like this. these animals do experience high temperatures regularly. they are adapted to live in these sorts of conditions. but this was hotter than they could handle. they were just literally cooking on the rocks. some of them up to 120 degrees. so, emily, what does this mean? i mean when you see pictures like that and understand what s happening, what is the real
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