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posted by janrinok on Tuesday January 14 2020, @08:52PM   Printer-friendly
from the we-used-to-wish-for-warmer-weather dept.

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


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  • (Score: 3, Insightful) by JoeMerchant on Tuesday January 14 2020, @09:30PM (5 children)

    by JoeMerchant (3937) on Tuesday January 14 2020, @09:30PM (#943282)

    How much is caused by cryptocurrency farms?

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  • (Score: 2) by ikanreed on Tuesday January 14 2020, @09:33PM (4 children)

    by ikanreed (3164) Subscriber Badge on Tuesday January 14 2020, @09:33PM (#943285) Journal

    Not that much. About the same as the entire city of las vegas, which is a lot for a pointless idea with no real value, but less than all the millions of computers and tvs running netflix put together.

    • (Score: 2) by JoeMerchant on Tuesday January 14 2020, @09:54PM

      by JoeMerchant (3937) on Tuesday January 14 2020, @09:54PM (#943296)

      What happened to all the statistics about Bitcoin (alone) consuming more electricity than Switzerland? Then factor in all the alt-coins, etc.

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    • (Score: 3, Interesting) by Freeman on Tuesday January 14 2020, @10:25PM (1 child)

      by Freeman (732) on Tuesday January 14 2020, @10:25PM (#943318) Journal

      I would put good money on the average bitcoin miner consuming lots more power than the average netflix device. Especially, considering the huge use of tablets / phones for watching Netflix. Even then, I would imagine the average user is more likely using a Roku type device as opposed to a full-fledged Desktop computer. So, it's entirely possible that for every bitcoin miner you could have a hundred or more netflix devices using the same amount of power.

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      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 14 2020, @11:37PM

        by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 14 2020, @11:37PM (#943356)

        For every bitcoin miner you have thousands to tens of thousands of users with thin clients.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 14 2020, @11:41PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 14 2020, @11:41PM (#943357)

      So says the cancer research who can't understand the armitage doll model of carcinogenesis... I assure you 100% of your work has been worthless reading of tea leaves, or worse, i you have trouble with that one.

      I can just imagine you finding all thesignificant correlations between genes and then there are too many so you say "lets make .00005 the new significance level instead of 0.0005!"