Ocean heat record broken, with grim implications for the planet
Ocean heat record broken, with grim implications for the planet
The oceans are a vital regulator for the climate and our weather but are rapidly heating up.
The average daily global sea surface temperature beat a 2016 record this week, according to the EU's climate change service Copernicus.
It reached 20.96C. That's far above the average for this time of year.
Remember when fossil fuel company scientists discovered their industry was warming the earth at an alarming rate? They predicted the end of humanity as we know it if we didn't stop? And now people are seriously arguing the more proven science?
Honestly no, and not because it didn't happen, but because it happened in 1896 before even my great grandparents were born. 127 years and 5 generations later and people are still denying that it's happening at all and there's been very little meaningful progress to move away from fossil fuels in that time. Things won't start to get better until climate change kills enough people off that we can no longer sustain an industrial society.
Normal people aren't denying it at all. Conservatives are denying it. That's it. Conservatives. A blend of idiots and their leaders who are paid by the pollutors.
Conservatives should be shunned and excluded from polite society. They are proactively killing us and we just walk among them as if they are normal people. They are not.
Eunice Foote's experiments in 1856 and the documentation of acid rain in the 1850s were sufficient information to stop expansion of fossil fuels without a clear and precise picture of their effects.
Remember when climate change was identified for the past 60 years and people just ended up buying bigger houses, bigger cars, and consuming more?
This problem can't be solved on the individual level. Governments need to say enough. Not just to the fossil fuel companies but also some of the people on the center left. Nuclear power is currently the only viable option for electricity. For the life of me, I don't understand why it's so opposed. Modern reactors are so safe and produce so little waste it's a ready made solution.
Dr Samantha Burgess, from the Copernicus Climate Change Service, says March should be when the oceans globally are warmest, not August.
"The fact that we've seen the record now makes me nervous about how much warmer the ocean may get between now and next March," she says.
By March El Nino will be in full swing. 2024 is going to be a very sad year for life on Earth.
The most surprising thing to me here, is that I'm looking at a scuba diver writing on what appears to be a piece of paper on a clipboard.
Neato! It really is just a piece of (waterproof) paper on a clipboard – and you write on the clipboard, too – and with just a regular graphite pencil. I can't say I've ever given much thought to how one might write underwater in that situation, but if I had, I would've guessed some sort of waterproof tablet. But it's cool to see that sometimes the basics work better.
Yeah man I was like "yeah yeah we know we are fucked....but what is that!? Please tell me 🙏"
On the plus side, we don’t need to buy hot tubs anymore, so we’ve got that going for us, which is nice.
I'm glad someone can always look on the bright side.
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Don't worry, geoengineering to mask the absolute worst of it will start soon and everyone will pretend it's not a problem for another decade.
Just remember to recycle kids.
Corporations did this. Meanwhile the guilt goes onto the regular Joe.
humanity is totally fucked. only the top 0.5% billionaires will survive. If you are not worth at least $10 million by now? You might as well throw the towel in. Send ur kids to sleep forever, save them the agony of lifetime of agonised slavery.
“You know it's sad but truuuue!" 🎵
Just wow.