Does this count as good news? Ocean temps are almost not at record-setting levels now. They're merely slightly above the unbelievable, record-shattering temps of last year.
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Well, we got our earliest ever Cat 4 and Cat 5 hurricane on record, so there's that!
When I teach first-year calculus, I tell students a practical rule: Any time a politician, military leader, or business leader talks about the second derivative, they are trying to mislead you.
Or in non-calculus terms: If something bad continues to increase, but is increasing more slowly than in the past, that is *not* good news.
The decrease is due to La Nina taking over; take out the area of ENSO variability, and SSTs remain at scary-high levels.
For understanding of sources of temperature variability and their magnitudes, this is a good place to start: https://pubs.giss.nasa.gov/docs/2008/2008_Lean_le08200o.pdf
That's my assumption as well -- La Nina is providing a brief, and very small, respite, but that's all.
Exactly this. Thanks Tom Hamill.
"decrease" is not really a good way to describe "did not set a record". I get your point but it is rather out of context. Don't you find it a bit astounding to have 15 1/2 *months* with consecutive daily records?
but what if the rising temps kill the sharks that would otherwise tear us limb from limb when we're forced to abandon our batterypowered eboats?
Wow!! Great question! I’ll be no one else thought of that! Did anyone in your family teach at M.I.T.?
no. just cal poly.
Almost is not good enough; we need to have the hottest oceans in the world -- the greatest -- in history. It's hot or not, not almost.
[Paris Hilton pointing to 2023 record] "Now that's hot."
nelly added, "now take off all your clothes".
It is becoming pretty clear to me that most of the climate scientists have actually been optimists. We are going to blow by 3C. Humans are actually no smarter than wine yeast.
Not a bit.
If you are a lobster this is still bad news
i'm still getting in line for the lobster.
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Yes, but did you adjust for inflation?
Some of the Atlantic Ocean's heat dissipates into hurricanes. A cat 5 storm direct hit on Tallahassee might increase friction with the even hotter tempers of Florida.
Can I hope for a direct hit on Mar-A-Lago?
a category five hurricane in tallahassee just flattened the governor's mansion. here's why that's good news for ron de santis.
Fighting Climate Change is hard. Let's go cruising...
I wonder if a period of evolutionary gigantism is in the offing...