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Ocean Temperatures Hit Record High as Rate of Heating Accelerates

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

DeathMonkey writes:

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: 5, Insightful) by Azuma Hazuki on Wednesday January 15 2020, @03:02AM (3 children)

    by Azuma Hazuki (5086) on Wednesday January 15 2020, @03:02AM (#943420) Journal

    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.

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  • (Score: 2) by RS3 on Wednesday January 15 2020, @04:51AM (1 child)

    by RS3 (6367) on Wednesday January 15 2020, @04:51AM (#943459)

    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

      by Azuma Hazuki (5086) on Wednesday January 15 2020, @05:19AM (#943469) Journal

      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.

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  • (Score: 2) by Coward, Anonymous on Wednesday January 15 2020, @06:56AM

    by Coward, Anonymous (7017) on Wednesday January 15 2020, @06:56AM (#943490) Journal

    Maybe you're the one who got owned by her.