Nature Stunner: "Global warming blamed for 40% decline in the ocean's phytoplankton" - "Microscopic life crucial to the marine food chain is dying out. The consequences could be catastrophic."

Scientists may have found the most devastating impact yet of human-caused global warming — a 40% decline in phytoplankton since 1950 linked to the rise in ocean sea surface temperatures.  If confirmed, it may represent the single most important finding of the year in climate science.

The headlines above are from an appropriately blunt article in The Independent about the new study in Nature, "Global phytoplankton decline over the past century" (subs. req'd).  Even the Wall Street Journal