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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: -1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 14 2020, @10:07PM (13 children)
As is often the case with these AGW scare articles, which are mainly intended to bolster grant funding, there's a fundamental flaw. You don't even need to read the article: the author list is sufficient to see the problem is faulty equipment. While AliExpress thermometers are quite inexpensive and work well when you get them, they're known to fail gradually over time resulting in higher and higher temperature readings. That explains their results conclusively and without needing to get into sky-is-falling mode.
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 14 2020, @10:37PM (8 children)
But they're priests^Wscientists, don't you believe the religion^Wscience?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 14 2020, @10:40PM (7 children)
They said it was irrefutable!
(Score: 3, Touché) by DeathMonkey on Tuesday January 14 2020, @10:50PM (6 children)
Well I don't see you refuting it....
(Score: 2) by PartTimeZombie on Tuesday January 14 2020, @10:53PM (5 children)
You can tell by the way they pretend climate scientists are somehow religious leaders, and somehow can't be criticized.
I think it might be something they say on Fox News.
(Score: 4, Insightful) by DeathMonkey on Tuesday January 14 2020, @10:57PM
It's their superpower: Projection [wikipedia.org]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 15 2020, @08:21AM (3 children)
So let me get this straight. The earth spins but we cant feel it, The stars change but we can't see it. The earth is moving but you can't tell even though it is very fast. But people who write stuff down and use math to construct a fact based worldview out of theoretical equations that negate our senses are better than you or I?
(Score: 2) by PartTimeZombie on Wednesday January 15 2020, @08:45PM (2 children)
Are you going to argue for a flat earth?
Because that would be really funny.
Oh, and if you look up and pay attention at night you can see the stars change. If you travel from the Southern hemisphere to the northern you can see the stars change too. It's not hard to do either.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 15 2020, @11:26PM (1 child)
No, the the *ocean* is flat. Trust your senses. If you look through anything curved (ie, a lens) it makes an object appear curve even if not. This is why the ocean may appear curved in pictures (where the image was passed through a curved camera lens) or in first person (where the image passes through your curved eyeball. You can see it in the name of the organ: eyeBALL. Balls are curved.
This is all backed up by the theory of relativity. Things only *seem* curved but objects traveling around them go in a straight line. It is all an illusion:
https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/3009/how-exactly-does-curved-space-time-describe-the-force-of-gravity [stackexchange.com]
So the oceans are flat, but the local geometry is curved. Perhaps we can agree on that.
(Score: 2) by PartTimeZombie on Thursday January 16 2020, @08:45PM
I'm still confused.
Should I trust my senses because the ocean looks flat, or not trust my senses because my curved eyeball makes the ocean look curved?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 15 2020, @02:04AM (3 children)
Why don't you get your lazy ass out of your parents basement and measure the entire temperature profile of the oceans?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 15 2020, @07:44AM (1 child)
Because space is not real. The earth is not flat, but it is like a round grape floating in a flat vast ocean. Thus, there is no room for space in reality, only electrone and electrone holes that destroy one instant of time for each annihilation event.
(Score: 2) by PartTimeZombie on Wednesday January 15 2020, @08:49PM
Wow, that is mental.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 15 2020, @05:08PM
And the effect acidification is having on fish. [nofrakkingconsensus.com]