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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: 5, Informative) by ikanreed on Tuesday January 14 2020, @10:00PM (10 children)
Dumbass shill who's paid hundreds of thousands a year to lie to you lies to you.
In what fucking psychotic-ass world is spain's rate of change being "50 percent superior to the average of nations in the northern hemisphere" "Hotter than everywhere else".
I'll tell you where, straight up Watt's ass. That's a flagrant lie to fool extremely stupid people. Are you an extremely stupid people, Capitval?
How many predictions has this dumbass made around that time frame that have been overwhelmingly proven wrong by only a few years' time. Let's see, from just 2008..., as I'd like at least a decade to show how wrong he is. So you can see I'm not skipping any predictions [wattsupwiththat.com]
Oh wow, only 8 of the 10 hottest years have happened since cooling was portended, what a well validated hypothesis from someone who's not full of shit.
The Ice in Greenland is Growing [wattsupwiththat.com]
Weird that, today it's at the smallest extent of any winter in history [nsidc.org] since it was growing so much. We just missed the signal in this one's noise, I'm sure.
Met Office recycles last years PR: 2009 to be one of the warmest on record [wattsupwiththat.com]
Weird that 2009 turned out to be the hottest ever at the time. Gosh, I'm sure his underlying beliefs are sound and it was just a coincidence he rejected this one totally accurate prediction
Temperatures could drop to 50 below zero in parts of Alaska [wattsupwiththat.com]
Now, I couldn't find any evidence of this actually happening at any alaska weather stations in 2008 In this somewhat bare historic record, even confusing weather for cliamte, he can't make an accurate fucking prediciton. Err. I mean. Surely just missing data
Pielke Sr. takes on the London Times over erroneous climate reporting – says "warming has stopped for at least 4 years" [wattsupwiththat.com]
I'm sure the very next year being the hottest ever and the proceeding decade getting hotter was just a mistake. Roger Pielke Sr. just got his sunspot magic wrong. He needs to ask the spirits again.
God, I can't even get out of the last couple days of 2008 before I'm just exhausted of trying to pretend. I was intended to get a week's worth of stories, but I'm so tired of it. He's not acting in good faith. A sensible person would have learned from making so many so wrong predictions. You're a sesnsible person right?
This isn't cherry picking. Every word out of Watt's mouth, in the most generous possible interpretation is totally and completely wrong.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 14 2020, @10:07PM (2 children)
I dont get it.... his post I do get thou.
(Score: 2) by ikanreed on Tuesday January 14 2020, @10:13PM
Watt of Watt's Up With That is a paid shill, and only stupid people believe a word out of his mouth.
(Score: 4, Funny) by Gaaark on Tuesday January 14 2020, @10:19PM
Thou is Yoda.
Get you do not!
--- Please remind me if I haven't been civil to you: I'm channeling MDC. ---Gaaark 2.0 ---
(Score: 2) by ikanreed on Tuesday January 14 2020, @10:30PM
My link to alaska weather data got eaten by the formatting gremlin [wunderground.com]
(Score: 2) by Coward, Anonymous on Wednesday January 15 2020, @02:49AM (5 children)
Oh well, Al Gore makes millions playing the same game. In fact, Watts' record is not bad when he points out Gore's errors.
Gore (2006): Within the decade there will be no more snows of Kilimanjaro. [youtube.com]
Debunking (2018): Greatest Snowfall on Kilimanjaro Glaciers in Years [glacierhub.org]
Gore (2006): Within 15 years this will be the Park formerly known as Glacier. [youtube.com]
Debunking (2019): Glacier National Park is replacing signs that predicted its glaciers would be gone by 2020 [cnn.com]
(Score: 2) by ikanreed on Wednesday January 15 2020, @01:34PM (3 children)
No dumbasses come by and link al gore in every thread to shit it up do they? no they link the fucking journal of atmospheric sciences
(Score: 2) by Coward, Anonymous on Wednesday January 15 2020, @02:16PM (2 children)
Appeal to authority is not an argument.
(Score: 3, Informative) by ikanreed on Wednesday January 15 2020, @02:54PM (1 child)
No, but a lazy ass tu quoque that doesn't even address a true fucking point is?
Come on with that intellectually vacuous fallacy spotting bullshit. You know as well as I do that the rigor of this particular paper is quite high, because you can read the fucking methodology section.
You don't, of course, for reasons that elude me, but your high horse isn't even reach knee level right now, my dude.
(Score: 2) by Coward, Anonymous on Wednesday January 15 2020, @07:18PM
I linked to an article that shows a huge scientific miss that anyone can appreciate. Signs were put up at a National Park that had to be taken down again because climate-model-based predictions were wrong.
Some technical article about ocean heat content or whatever you're referring to doesn't cut the mustard against that. Like it or not, science requires falsifiable predictions. Otherwise you're just going through the motions.
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 15 2020, @07:20PM
Gore is a self-serving asshole. That doesn't mean all of the other climate research being done is wrong.
I have a relative that works for the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration. He spends months at a time out at sea taking temperature readings from sensor buoys that measure the temperature at the surface and then down every 50 feet or so to the ocean floor, all over the Pacific Ocean. Temperatures have been going up, consistently, all over the ocean for years.
But Exxon, Peabody Energy, the rulers of Saudi Arabia, hundreds of others, and their puppets have spent hundreds of millions on propaganda to convince us nothing is wrong. The earth is a huge fucking chunk of rock and water, it seems impossible to believe humanity could affect the global temperature averages. But consider: the total energy output by all explosives in World War 2, including the two nuclear bombs dropped on Japan, is around 3.5 TWh. Humanity is currently consuming 113,000 TWh per year. Yeah, the earth is huge - but do you really think we can consume 32,000 times the explosive energy output of all of World War 2 every year without affecting the global climate? Or the most powerful volcanic eruption in human history, Mount Krakatoa - 232 TWh. So humanity uses the same energy as 487 Krakatoan eruptions every year.
Fuck you and your Gore reference. He's a dick and I hate him too. That doesn't mean climate change is a myth.