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Climate 911 - Ocean temps spike to record levels! [1]

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Date: 2023-05-01

Just a wee bit concerning.

I am no expert, but I can recognize a serious problem when I see it. Does anyone remember the movie, The Day After Tomorrow? Does anyone remember watching it and thinking “well at least not in my lifetime?”. Well, I was at least thinking it, not anymore.

New reports just out, from Axios:

Since mid-March, the world’s oceans have been hotter than at anytime since at least 1982, raising concerns among some climate experts about accelerated warming. Why it matters: Hotter oceans are hugely consequential for land areas, since they can contribute to more frequent and severe extreme weather and climate events, from deluges to heat waves.

In addition, the temperature spike could be a sign that warming is speeding up in ways that climate models failed to anticipate.

Again, no expert here, but in my mind, I always feared this. I am also smart enough to realize that if the true experts begin to see that shit is truly going to hit the fan, in horrific ways, they are certainly not going to truly warn us, to prevent mass hysteria.

Here’s more:

Threat level: The steady and record-setting accumulation of ocean heat throughout the water column, not just at the surface, actually has climate scientists more concerned than the recent sea surface temperature spike. Researchers like Mann and Kevin Trenberth of the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) told Axios this is a clearer sign of human-caused global warming than the ongoing record sea surface temperatures. What they're saying: "2023 is off to an alarming start, even before El Niño conditions fully develop later this year," Kim Cobb, a climate scientist at Brown University, told Axios via email. She noted that even a moderate El Niño is likely to lead to a new global temperature record. "Given the current pace of warming, however, even a new record will likely be surpassed in a matter of years. The planet is warming so fast now, even a natural cycle as strong as the El Niño-Southern Oscillation is beginning to be lost in the noise," Cobb said.

I wonder if it will take the earth freezing over for people to wake up and finally ditch the earths oil fetish. If money just wasn't the driving factor to our species, things could be so different, and maybe, just maybe, we would live to enjoy what we have, and not “what we could have”.

When is enough, enough? How many innovations do we really need? I know we need innovations that don’t rely on oil, other than that, personally, I am aware of none. But go ahead billionaires, keep wasting billions launching your dildos in to space, its truly helping to solve earths problems..

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