Atlantic Ocean is unusually warm right now. Scientists say that’s “deeply troubling"

[Taichiliberal]

It's a sad thing - but at this point there isn't too much we can do about it.

I'd love to see us at least start to live more sustainably & more in harmony w/ the planet, the only home we have. But trying to "stop" warming at this point is futile.

You've got a point. Look to the indicators of gov't/corporations/top 1% begin to make subtle preparations for a dystopian near future. Case in point: the warehousing of various global non-GMO food seeds and such in Norway.

 

[Into the Night]

It's actually kind of hilarious how so many people miss what is happening on the planet right now.

What? Void argument fallacy.

No intelligent, aware person thinks any of what we do & how we live is remotely sustainable, for even one generation.

History disagrees with you. So does the current population.

The disdain shown for our one & only planet will be looked upon by future historians with puzzlement.

Void argument fallacy.

 

[Into the Night]

It's funny how you desperately find something that you think allows you to continue to deny Climate Change.

Climate cannot change.

The fact is you're not a scientist.

Neither are you. Fortunately, I am. Science has no theories about 'climate change'. Science has not theories about any meaningless buzzword.

A thousand years ago, morons like you denied the earth was round.

He isn't a thousand years old, twit. Neither are you.

The reason you and your fellow Republiclowns deny climate change

Climate cannot change.

is because you've been indoctrinated by the right wing media.

No media involved. Climate cannot change.

You swallow everything they tell you.

You are describing yourself again. Climate cannot change.

You even swallowed Trump's Big Lie.

What 'Big Lie' is that? Climate cannot change.

You sir are a gullible POS.

You are describing yourself. Climate cannot change.

 

[Into the Night]

You've got a point. Look to the indicators of gov't/corporations/top 1% begin to make subtle preparations for a dystopian near future. Case in point: the warehousing of various global non-GMO food seeds and such in Norway.

You think Norway is the top 1% of wealth????!?

 

[NiftyNiblick]

If you're spending serious money for a beach rental, warm water is nothing about which you should complain.

We're past the tipping point.
Human civilization is probably beyond salvation at this point.
Whether that's good or bad is for each of us to decide for ourselves.
There's certainly nothing approaching solidarity between us anymore.

We may as well think about ourselves, no?

 

[Joe Capitalist]

If you're spending serious money for a beach rental, warm water is nothing about which you should complain.

We're past the tipping point.
Human civilization is probably beyond salvation at this point.
Whether that's good or bad is for each of us to decide for ourselves.
There's certainly nothing approaching solidarity between us anymore.

We may as well think about ourselves, no?

Methinks you're going overboard with your predictions. I have more faith in humanity. The Climate-Change-Deniers are in the small minority and getting smaller by the day.

 

[Into the Night]

If you're spending serious money for a beach rental, warm water is nothing about which you should complain.

We're past the tipping point.
Human civilization is probably beyond salvation at this point.
Whether that's good or bad is for each of us to decide for ourselves.
There's certainly nothing approaching solidarity between us anymore.

We may as well think about ourselves, no?

There is no 'tipping point'.
If you want to go live like animal, that's YOUR problem.

 

[Into the Night]

Methinks you're going overboard with your predictions. I have more faith in humanity. The Climate-Change-Deniers are in the small minority and getting smaller by the day.

Quite the opposite, Sock. The Church of Global Warming is getting smaller. Just louder.

Climate cannot change.
No gas or vapor has the capability to warm the Earth. You cannot create energy out of nothing.

 

[Joe Capitalist]

This message is hidden because Into my Nighty is on your ignore list.

 

[Into the Night]

This message is hidden because Into my Nighty is on your ignore list.

Lying doesn't work, Sock.

In the last 30 years of Presidential Elections, the Republiclowns have only won the popular vote ONCE

The President is not elected by popular vote, Sock.

 

[Althea]

This chart of ocean temperatures should really scare you

The Atlantic Ocean is unusually warm right now. Here’s why scientists say that’s “deeply troubling.”
By Benji Jones@BenjiSJones Feb 28, 2024, 3:40pm EST

Map shows higher than normal temperatures in most of the North Atlantic.

Change in sea surface temperatures in the North Atlantic Ocean relative to a historic baseline. Darker orange corresponds to areas that are abnormally warm, whereas blue indicates a region is abnormally cool. Climate Change Institute/University of Maine/NOAA
Benji Jones is a senior environmental reporter at Vox, covering biodiversity loss and climate change. Before joining Vox, he was a senior energy reporter at Insider. Benji previously worked as a wildlife researcher.
If you were to dip your toes into the middle of the North Atlantic — say, somewhere between South Carolina and Spain — the water would feel frigid. You definitely wouldn’t want to swim. It’s winter.

Yet that water would, in fact, be very warm, relatively speaking. Right now, the North Atlantic ocean is, on average, warmer than any other time on record, running about 2 degrees Fahrenheit hotter than the average temperature over the last three decades.

To understand just how unusual this is, take a look at the chart below. The wave of squiggly lines represents the sea surface temperature, averaged across the North Atlantic, from 1981 to now; each squiggle is a different year.

Chart shows 2024’s temperatures as significantly higher than previous years and 2024’s temperatures so far significantly higher than 2023.

The thick orangey-red line that runs the length of the chart and hovers above nearly all the others is from 2023. The North Atlantic started breaking heat temperature records in March of last year.

Even more alarming is the departure that the new, shorter line from 2024 represents. It’s far above the rest, indicating this extreme, anomalous increase has continued into this year.

What questions do you have for our climate team?
Let us know by filling out this form.

“It’s significantly warmer than it ever has been for this time of year,” Brian McNoldy, a climate researcher at the University of Miami’s Rosenstiel School, told Vox. “This is deeply troubling,” he recently wrote on X.

All this heat is not only a problem for marine ecosystems today, scientists say. It’s also a warning of what could come — including what could put human life in harm’s way.

I think it's time to stop saying 'unusually'. This is the new normal and it's time to prepare for it.

In the mts. of NY, we used to get ice on the lakes in early December and be able to fish until March. Now we're lucky to get ice by January, and we have a February thaw where temps go into the 60's/70's every single year.

That's unheard of, but it's the new normal. Fleas/tick love it. Their numbers in the warm months are skyrocketing.

 

[Althea]

It's actually kind of hilarious how so many people miss what is happening on the planet right now.

No intelligent, aware person thinks any of what we do & how we live is remotely sustainable, for even one generation. The disdain shown for our one & only planet will be looked upon by future historians with puzzlement.

People like myself who are out in nature a lot see the damage.

People who are not, simply rejoice that we have warm weather in winter. We all love saving money on heating. The subtle changes are going to kick the clueless crowd in the ass one day and they'll wonder how it happened.

 

[Althea]

If you're spending serious money for a beach rental, warm water is nothing about which you should complain.

Until your rental along with your family is washed away in a hurricane.

 

[Althea]

Methinks you're going overboard with your predictions. I have more faith in humanity. The Climate-Change-Deniers are in the small minority and getting smaller by the day.

China and India don't give a flying fuck about humanity.

 

[NiftyNiblick]

Until your rental along with your family is washed away in a hurricane.

That's a very valid point, but shit happens...relentlessly.

 

[Hawkeye10]

China and India don't give a flying fuck about humanity.

Its America that is relentlessly driving for WW3.

 

[NiftyNiblick]

Its America that is relentlessly driving for WW3.

Perhaps WW III will finally bring an to the misery we know as human existence.
There won't be any people around to celebrate, but at least the suffering will finally be over.

That's me. I always look at the bright side.
Let the next great pyrotechnics show be with nukes.
They can get pretty bright.

 

[Nordberg]

China and India don't give a flying fuck about humanity.

China is deep in green energy. They have suffered the smoke, smog, and pollution. They are into solar panels, windmills and nuclear energy.https://thesolutionsproject.org/wha...i0ERoC9RQQAvD_BwE#/map/countries/location/CHN
Do you know who does not care about Green energy? American right-wingers and Trumpys.

 

[Hawkeye10]

Now that people are rapidly concluding that the climate apocalypse is a hoax expect the next pandemic to be launched. There is nothing the New Slavers will not do to get and keep control of the masses. The next pandemic will be way worse than COVID we have been promised.

 

[Althea]

China is deep in green energy. They have suffered the smoke, smog, and pollution. They are into solar panels, windmills and nuclear energy.https://thesolutionsproject.org/wha...i0ERoC9RQQAvD_BwE#/map/countries/location/CHN
Do you know who does not care about Green energy? American right-wingers and Trumpys.

Agree


But India/China are still using a lot of coal. I know China produces the green technology materials. I'm not sure how much of it they use?