Ocean Heat Has Shattered Records for More Than a Year. What’s Happening?

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“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.

umbrella,
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climate change. climate change is happening.

silence7,

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.

umbrella, (edited )
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el nino is that bad because of climate change. i think this was predicted.

im curious about the sulfur thing, what changes?

silence7,

There was an international treaty to cut the amount of sulfur in the bunker oil that the big ships burn. This is because the particulates it produces when burned kill people. They also reflected a bunch of sunlight, preventing it from warming the water.

Ultragigagigantic,
@Ultragigagigantic@lemmy.world avatar

El Niño is Spanish for the Niño

werefreeatlast,

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.

werefreeatlast,

I love 3d printing… It sucks that laws should probably regulate that toxic shit.

silence7,

None of that is a greenhouse gas.

Blackmist,

Quick, push the glaciers into the sea to cool it down again!

Chickenstalker,

Ocean Heat sounds like a nu wave synth band from the early 90s.

unreasonabro,

purple neon, i can see it now…

GiddyGap,

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.”

silence7,

The messaging needs to come from somebody they trust.

viddin,

The article says the tonga eruption is the biggest since Krakatoa. That’s nuts.

unreasonabro,

We’re all about to die, that’s what

Ultragigagigantic,
@Ultragigagigantic@lemmy.world avatar

Get a vasectomy.

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