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Ocean temperatures hit record high as rate of heating accelerates:
The heat in the world's oceans reached a new record level in 2019, showing "irrefutable and accelerating" heating of the planet.
The world's oceans are the clearest measure of the climate emergency because they absorb more than 90% of the heat trapped by the greenhouse gases emitted by fossil fuel burning, forest destruction and other human activities.
The new analysis shows the past five years are the top five warmest years recorded in the ocean and the past 10 years are also the top 10 years on record. The amount of heat being added to the oceans is equivalent to every person on the planet running 100 microwave ovens all day and all night.
[...]"We found that 2019 was not only the warmest year on record, it displayed the largest single-year increase of the entire decade, a sobering reminder that human-caused heating of our planet continues unabated," said Prof Michael Mann, at Penn State University, US, and another team member.
Journal Reference:
Cheng, L., Abraham, J., Zhu, J. et al. Ocean Temperatures Hit Record High as Rate of Heating Accelerates Adv. Atmos. Sci. (2020) 37: 137. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00376-020-9283-7
(Score: 0, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 14 2020, @09:07PM (16 children)
... and tell her to glare at the ocean until it cools down.
(Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 14 2020, @10:11PM (11 children)
Ok boomer.
(Score: 3, Funny) by RS3 on Tuesday January 14 2020, @10:26PM (9 children)
It's the lamest insult I've ever heard of. Does that really insult anyone? Or does it just make the millennial feel better about his hateful emo self? I think the whole thing was promulgated by boomers to give annoying adolescent 20-somethings something to quench their malice. The whole thing is pretty amusing.
(Score: 5, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 14 2020, @11:27PM (4 children)
It's not an insult. It's a dismissal.
Your opinions have been heard.
Your actions have been observed.
You can go now.
The rest of us have work to do.
(Score: 2) by krishnoid on Wednesday January 15 2020, @01:52AM (1 child)
Good point, but bad idea. "Oh, they don't care about us. Might as well crank up the AC and vote to keep coal plants open, live it up until we die, and let these young ingrates sear on the outside to seal in their own juices to stew in."
(Score: 2) by ilsa on Wednesday January 15 2020, @04:14PM
Considering that that's what they were doing already?
(Score: 2, Insightful) by Coward, Anonymous on Wednesday January 15 2020, @02:15AM
It's like when kids close their ears and sing "La La La".
(Score: 2, Funny) by khallow on Wednesday January 15 2020, @04:14AM
Ok, boomer.
(Score: 2, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 14 2020, @11:49PM (1 child)
Not the same AC, but:
It's the lamest insult I've ever heard of. Does that really insult anyone? Or does it just make the boomer feel better about his grumpy old self? I think the whole thing was promulgated by millenials to give annoying geriatric 60-somethings something to quench their malice. The whole thing is pretty amusing.
(Score: 5, Funny) by RS3 on Wednesday January 15 2020, @01:31AM
You got it! Very good. Now run along and vape.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 15 2020, @03:39AM
Indignant boomercel is crying on the inside.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 15 2020, @07:51PM
Ok boomer [cnn.com]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 14 2020, @10:56PM
Mod parent up... he's a special little snowflake who deserves recognition.
(Score: 5, Insightful) by Azuma Hazuki on Wednesday January 15 2020, @03:02AM (3 children)
Daily reminder that an autistic teenager is giving you shit-aneurysms...because she's correct. You have, quite literally, gotten owned by a little girl.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 2) by RS3 on Wednesday January 15 2020, @04:51AM (1 child)
Yeah, we're all Samsons to any Delilah that happens along; it's one of the side effects of testosterone poisoning.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Azuma Hazuki on Wednesday January 15 2020, @05:19AM
Is it? I thought it was a side effect of being a whiny little manlet with a stomach full of bile and a head empty of ideas.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 2) by Coward, Anonymous on Wednesday January 15 2020, @06:56AM
Maybe you're the one who got owned by her.