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15 thoughts on “Global sea temps continue to go nuts”

  1. golack

    This is huge--but I don't like shoveling snow so it's ok.
    /s

    The year over year jumps are unprecedented too--looks like next 1 degree rise in temps will happen in about 5 years instead of 40. And this is going on while we still have ice caps.

  2. D_Ohrk_E1

    We need a radical rethink on how we deal with climate change. It's here, it'll get a lot worse than anticipated, and we need realistic, implementable prescriptive pathways for different groups of people in different communities and climate zones towards adaptive living.

    2. bbleh

      I'll settle for keeping India and Pakistan from getting into a nuclear exchange after rising sea levels, stronger storms, and seawater infiltration into coastal agricultural regions leads to the forced displacement of tens or hundreds of millions of refugees.

      I'd also prefer that, as it becomes clear our failure to deal AT ALL, let alone realistically, with a problem of our own making we've known about for two generations doesn't lead us to wild panicked reactions (eg dumping massive amounts of reflective particles into the atmosphere) that make things even worse.

      Beyond that, I don't think there's much hope at this point.

  3. jte21

    Climatologists have been warning for a long time that the oceans' ability to absorb atmospheric heat has been staving off the worst effects of climate change for the past couple of decades. That period seems to be coming to an end...

    1. Austin

      The really smart dumb people will likely say something like “it’s only 40 years worth of data, we need to study the issue longer before extrapolating this into the future.”

  5. ruralhobo

    The question no longer seems to be, how long before we stop it, but how long before it stops us. Not when "civilization" will do something about global warming, but when global warming will do something about "civilization". At the same time I'm wary about doom and gloom talk because I have a feeling the fossil fuel companies all along wanted to keep making money by fooling the population:
    - first that climate change is a hoax
    - next that the cost of doing something is too high and should be borne by other countries first
    - now that we're all doomed anyway so might as well fill 'er up.

    And yet, I do think we're doomed, and that apocalyptic thinking is grabbing control of the world, and that it will end in small communities trying to survive amidst the ruins of the beautiful and bountiful world we their parents and grandparents trashed, plus some billionaires on their islands protected by robots out of fear of all that is human.

    And that the longer we protect "civilization", the worse the end game will be.

  6. sonofthereturnofaptidude

    After a few island chains featuring large mansions owned by members of the 1% go under, the elites will come together on this issue -- to save their own bacon. The rest of us are doomed.

    1. bbleh

      I'm just kinda hoping we can avoid near-total depopulation of our coasts and a collapse of our economy back to mid-19th-century levels.

  8. Citizen99

    Hurricanes are boosted by high sea surface temperatures (from el Niño) but are also helped to grow by low wind shear (la Niña). So now we have super-warm ocean temperatures from the winter's el Niño, but are expected to shift to a la Niña wind pattern by mid-summer. Sounds like a perfect combination for some record-setting powerful hurricanes. We can only hope that one of them rips Mar-a-Lago right off its foundations and drops it into the Bermuda Triangle.

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