Ocean temperatures have soared five degrees above normal since early July. This warming has been ignited by an El Nino weather pattern that’s collided with human-caused climate change.

“It’s bonkers. I don’t know how else to put it,” said Ben Kirtman, an atmospheric scientist with the University of Miami Rosenstiel School. “Normally when you break records, you break records by a tenth of a degree, maybe a quarter of a degree. … Here, we’re breaking it by five degrees.”

  • meat_popsicle@kbin.social
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    4
    ·
    1 year ago

    “We gotta cool the oceans down, that’s why I support nuking them!”

    -Coming soon from the party that suggested nuking hurricanes