Ocean Heat Has Shattered Records for More Than a Year. What’s Happening?
Ocean Heat Has Shattered Records for More Than a Year. What’s Happening?
There have been record temperatures every day for more than a year. Scientists are investigating what’s behind the extraordinary measurements.
“There’s no ambiguity about the data,” said Gavin Schmidt, a climatologist and the director of the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies. “So really, it’s a question of attribution.”
Understanding what specific physical processes are behind these temperature records will help scientists improve their climate models and better predict temperatures in the future.
My wife told me I was a doomer gloomer for not wanting to have kids due to climate uncertainty. I wanted to adopt instead.
I'm terrified of how the world will look over the next century for my 6 month old son.
You gave in, huh?
Is his name Max Rockatansky? If so he’ll be fine.
Well i'm not a scientist (actually I am, but not a climate scientist), but im gunna take a wild flailing stab in the dark and suggest it's maybe due to unfettered fossil fuel emissions.
Call me crazy but i think this might be what's happening here.
we should really wait until we have more evidence before making such wild and unfounded statements
Pretty much every damn scientist nowadays, no matter their subject, seems to be a climate alarmist. I wonder what that could mean!
The only reasonable conclusion is a conspiracy, of course.
Nah, its the avacado toast.
What makes you so sure? As I see it, it could be that or illegals... maybe there is a synergistic relationship beetween the two?
Couldnt El Nino also be a contributing factor this year?
I was watching a video about past extinctions and they had a line where the oceans warmed two degrees over two million years, which was just about enough time for the ecosystems to evolve and adapt.
Look at what we've done in two hundred.
I went down a wiki rabbit hole a few weeks back, I found this graph very interesting https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Younger_Dryas
I would love to watch that, do you have a link or know where I can view this?
It was Kurzgesagt. Which was even more troubling since they are pretty reputable and they've done videos on the past trying to spur hopes on climate change. It seemed like a weird little factoid thrown into the mix rather than something directly related to current events.
Humanity! Fuck yeah! Only in 200 years!
we're all the frogs in god's slowly boiling kettle.
Fortunately Exxon et al made STELLAR profits for damn near a century, it only cost us the one viable ecosystem we have in the entire known universe.
Tsk. Well profits have to be made, it's capitalism. Can't argue with that.
Good thing that I don't have children to experience the fucking Apokalypse
I wouldnt worry about that, you and I are likely to experience it ourselves
This is why I didn’t have children
Woohoo! The beginning of the end!!
It doesn't have to be. That's entirely a human decision.
climate change. climate change is happening.
It's a little more complicated than that — El Niño, plus climate change, plus a cut in the amount of sulfur in the fuel burned by ships, plus something that's not fully understood.
what’s happening?
Gettin hotter, innit?
First time?
Have fun while you can guys. Shits gonna get rough sooner than we all think
The beginning of the end, obviously. Dinosaurs 2.0 shall inherit the Earth since they're fine with a shitton of CO2 in the atmosphere and warmer everything.
Meh humanity had a good run.
gg no re
We will be a footnote in Earth's history, a dead branch on the tree of evolution
Our species is like a nuclear reactor that went out of control.
I like that description
Hurricane season gone be fun!
Who knows maybe we get to experience that also in Europe!
Quick, push the glaciers into the sea to cool it down again!
I have a lot of conservative family members in my extended family. You can tell them this all day long, present all the data in the world, and they wouldn't care one single crap.
"Hoax, lies, fake news, liberal agenda, etc, etc."
The messaging needs to come from somebody they trust.
We're all about to die, that's what
We fucked it.. Plain and simple..
This is not a good answer. 10 years ago nobody cared and we kept doing what we always did. Now everyone realises humanity is facing a severe survival-problem in the near future and people instantly switch from denying it to accepting it. Please don't! There are so many things one can do to fight our collapse. Apathy, catastrophism and cynicism gives power to the fossil destroyers. Don't let those fuckers win, go solarpunk on them! Take your money to a green, ethical bank, go vegan, grow potatoes with your neighborhood, repair stuff and blow up a pipeline.
In a strange way, the global heating gives our lifes way more meaning than 30 years ago, when nothing mattered and we just kept buying toys until we die.Unfortunately, there is no peaceful solution. Conservative greed cannot be stopped by pacifism. Physical force will be required. Because we don't talk openly about this, most normal people cannot see a way to win.
The rules that benefit conservative corporations are designed for us to follow all the way to our graves. One cannot step out of line without risking health, home or freedom. Protests are ineffective. Action is required - widespread action that would require coordination and communication.
We aren't allowed to communicate openly about the specific actions needed, as those actions break the rules. So it is perfectly reasonable for people to recognize the impending loss, given the obviously ineffective options we are presented.
what’s happening?
Instead of the bathwater cooling off after the tubs been filled, its heating up. We don't understand why.
No body understand the ocean. 🤪
Ocean Heat sounds like a nu wave synth band from the early 90s.
purple neon, i can see it now...
The article says the tonga eruption is the biggest since Krakatoa. That's nuts.
What’s… happening? What’s happening?? Bro…
Get a vasectomy.
It's 3D printing.... All those people getting cancer giving resins at home for 3D figurines and other useless items. That must be a large blip in some toxic item polluting the environment right now.
I love 3d printing... It sucks that laws should probably regulate that toxic shit.
