Posted on 03/20/2023 3:21:15 AM PDT by zeestephen
In 2013, a monstrous marine heatwave known as "The Blob" developed off the coast of Alaska... At one point, a buoy bobbing atop the ocean near Oregon detected frightening jumps in temperature of up to seven degrees Celsius in less than an hour...We need to recognize that burning fossil fuels is pushing ocean ecosystems to their limits. With Earth's oceans having now absorbed about 90 percent of the excess heat from global warming, marine heatwaves like The Blob are 20 times more likely to happen.
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I liked Bastardi. I especially miss his Saturday Updates.
Stupid hypothesis. The heat is from the BOTTOM of the water, and induced by volcanic vents, NOT by magically being transferred from surface to the depths Warm water always rises, not the reverse. This can be countered by the degree of salinity of the water, in that a WARM current of very high salinity will always sink below a COLD current of very low salinity. The effect of this reversal is still very small compared to the intensity of a volcanic vent eruption.
Don't invite those yo-yos into your house! They'd announce they had detected a frightening and sudden jump in the temperature of one of your skillets and demand you immediately stop exhaling carbon dioxide.
Hell? It’s hot. It’s down in that neck of the woods.
“Makes perfect sense as long as you ignore the fundamental fact heat rises.”
My thoughts exactly, except that there would be some hysteresis with volcanic heat rising. We are being mislead here...
Remember the explosion and fire on the Deepwater Horizon oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico in 2010? It caused an oil well drilled at the bottom of the Gulf to spew millions of gallons of oil into the Gulf (135 million, to be exact). There were numerous videos of oil spewing out of the wellhead at a depth of 5000 feet. The videos also showed that the temperature there was well below the freezing point of fresh water.
If you look at a map of the Gulf, It's surrounded on three sides by land (Mexico, Brazil, and the USA). The fourth side is blocked by Cuba, and the shallow waters around it. The surface is warm above it, and the ocean bottom is warm below it. So, where did the cold water come from? The answer is that the cold water could only have come from one or the other of the poles, the North Pole, or the South Pole. It's warmer every else. So YES, cold water sinks, and it also moves around quite a bit due to ocean currents.
When the open ocean gets to about 30 degrees C, 86 degrees F, evaporation removes the “excess heat,” it never makes it to the abyssal depths.
“The carbon dioxide that great deeps turn into a kind of dry ice too”
only if it is below the critical temperature for CO2, which is 31.1 C.
I liked Bastardi. I especially miss his Saturday Updates.
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He still does these.
https://www.weatherbell.com/#services
SUV submarines.
I assume this will cause global warming on odd-numbered days, and global cooling on even-numbered days. Correct? So, the “lurking” heatwave will just keep everything equal over time.
“Is anybody here a marine blobologist?”
Science has become the propaganda arm of government (fascism). The government tells them what results they want and give them money and like magic they find a way give the results the government wants.
Intense heatwaves BenLurkin
You are too kind attributing “apophena” to her delusion...:)
I must say-I pride myself on having a decent vocabulary, and that was a word I had to look up. And boy, does it fit.
The human mind is very good at finding patterns in things. Unfortunately, that skillful brain function, when unharnessed by rationality, turns to idiocy.
That is anthropogenic global warming in a nutshell.
Remember when an education made you smarter and less susceptible to superstition?
Thank You!
Let’s see, off the coast of Oregon close to the Cascadia subduction zone, lots of friction going on, a predicted snapback is looming as core samples taken over the last few decades have indicated that every 300 years the subduction zone has a snap back. The last one being January 29th 1700 as recorded/documented by the Japanese when the “Orphan Tsunami” struck their coastline.
It’s overdue, and it’s going to cause quite a bit of catastrophic damage because the area is now very populated.
Two thoughts. Where do they get history of events to determine “20 times” great chances? And secondly, a cloudless night in Michigan can see trillions of thermal units radiate into space.
It wasn’t molten until the twentieth century when widespread capitalism caused global warming. That warming melted the core of the planet and the heat is now rising to the surface. In a few years the entire earth will be a huge lava ball unless we stop using fossil fuels, except for our masters in the political class.
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