By Scott Dance and Brady Dennis – Washington Post
A rapid surge in global ocean temperatures in recent months is raising the specter of a climate pattern shift that could accelerate planetary warming and supercharge trends that already are fueling extreme storms, deadly heat waves, and ecological crises on land and sea.
Translation: What might seem like a small uptick in temperature can have profound effects.
“Averaged over the planet, that’s a really big anomaly,” said Alex Sen Gupta, a research scientist at the Climate Change Research Center at the University of New South Wales in Australia.
A transition to the climate pattern known as El Niño is probably behind the warming trend, scientists say. They won’t be sure of that until more time passes and the pattern takes shape. What’s already certain: As greenhouse gas emissions drive a steady surge in global temperatures, the planet will continue to set new climate and weather precedents, and oceans will grow ever hotter.
“You’ve got this relentless rise of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere,” said Michael McPhaden, a senior scientist at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. “We just know unless that turns around in some way, we will continue to set records.”
Historically, El Niño is known for accelerating global warming, with devastating effect. The pattern is marked by warmer-than-average surface waters in the Pacific Ocean that have domino effects on weather around the world. The last major El Niño drove the planet to record heat in 2016. The legacy of El Niño includes severe drought in places such as Indonesia and southern Africa, increased precipitation along the southern United States, and diminished Atlantic hurricane activity.
Strong El Niños can also trigger ecological disasters and deadly weather extremes: drought and wildfires that cause rainforest loss, ocean warming that kills aquatic life and bleaches corals, rapid loss of polar ice, and a surge in transmission of diseases such as the plague.
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Average global temperature is now, May 2, 2023 – 14,18 C.
That is 0,22 C. BELOW the temperature 146 years ago, and it is below the average of 1913, 1991, 2013, 2018, ref.: https://temperature.global/
Over the last week it has been falling 0,03 C. 2 days ago it came up again to today’s average of 14,18 C.
What’s special about the oceans is how influential it is when it comes to the air temperature, it is a very strong modulator, think about El Niño as an example, it is strong because the oceans covers 71% of the earth’s surface, water is a 1000 time denser than air and the oceans are 360 the mass of the atmosphere, changes in sea surface temperature (SST) is quickly influencing air temperature.
Temperature has been falling since 2016:
It’s too early to say Scott Dance and Brady Dennis from the Washington Post is lying, misrepresenting data, or even knowingly pushing FAKE data, but NASA has been known for many years not to be honest, counterfeiting data.
Until the numbers are confirmed I am skeptical!
The focus on sea surface temperature is irrelevant anyway. Temperature is not dictated by CO2, never has and never will. There was a time when the CO2 level was many times higher than today, if CO2 did dictate temperature the earth would be lifeless today.
“.. Today’s ‘global warming science’ is akin to an upside down pyramid which is built on the work of a few climate modelers. These AGW pioneers claim to have demonstrated human-derived CO2 emissions as the cause of recently rising temperatures and have then simply projected that warming forward. Every climate researcher thereafter has taken the results of these original models as a given, and we’re even at the stage now where merely testing their validity is regarded as heresy ..” More …
A few articles over the last few days telling stories of cooling:
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UK Breaks Late-April Low; Western U.S. Has Never Been Snowier; Polar Cold On Course For Australia; + “Glancing” CME Impact Due Today
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UK Meteorologists “Baffled” As Scotland “Returns To Winter”; Alta Surpasses 900 Inches (23 Meters); + More
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Exceptional Cold Grips Parts Of Japan; Utah Posts -19.2F As U.S. Suffers Late-Season Freeze; + China’s ‘Return To Winter’ Persists With Regions Seeing Their Latest Snowfall In Recorded History
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China Breaks 241 Low Temperature Records In 24hrs; Record Cold Hits The Baikal Region; Winter Returns To North America; + Minor CME Sparks Severe Geomagnetic Storm
April 2023 much cooler than April 1981 in lower 48… despite 133% more manmade CO2. 🤔
Recall that the climate con is every emission warms the planet.
It's not a crisis. It's a hoax. pic.twitter.com/QrpSczQfhP
— Steve Milloy (@JunkScience) May 2, 2023
