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Oceans Warming 40% Faster than Previously Predicted

posted by martyb on Friday January 11 2019, @01:52AM   Printer-friendly
from the bigger-and-stronger-hurricanes dept.

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https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/10/climate/ocean-warming-climate-change.html

Scientists say the world’s oceans are warming far more quickly than previously thought, a finding with dire implications for climate change because almost all the excess heat absorbed by the planet ends up stored in their waters.

A new analysis, published Thursday in the journal Science, found that the oceans are heating up 40 percent faster on average than a United Nations panel estimated five years ago. The researchers also concluded that ocean temperatures have broken records for several straight years.

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  • (Score: 4, Insightful) by bzipitidoo on Friday January 11 2019, @08:48PM (1 child)

    by bzipitidoo (4388) on Friday January 11 2019, @08:48PM (#785215) Journal

    Amazing how these sorts of stories always bring out heaps of shrill denials that are not backed by rhyme or reason.

    What is it that so bothers the denialists? Is it that the possible consequences-- you know, coasts underwater, ocean acidification killing off most species of fish, mass starvation and migrations and war, and, oh, a few scientists getting a funding increase of 0.01% of what the military gets-- are just too scary to face? Are they in love with cars and fear that they'll have to give them up, somehow suffering a total mental block about the existence and potential of electric cars? They'll miss the sound of that Harley growl and unmuffled hotrodded v8 at 1 AM? They can't stand change, can't conceive that changes can be changes for the better? What a sad, sad world.

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  • (Score: 1) by evilcam on Monday January 14 2019, @03:06AM

    by evilcam (3239) Subscriber Badge on Monday January 14 2019, @03:06AM (#786231)

    US spend about $680Bn on Defence and about $8bn on the EPA (which obviously isn't 100% fighting climate change; closer to 0% given the present administration) so they currently go about 1.2% of the Defence budget, or approximately 1.4 government shutdowns...