Posted on 02/22/2023 12:12:27 AM PST by Libloather
(KXAN) - A new study has found that surface waters in the Gulf of Mexico have warmed approximately twice as fast as the global ocean over the last 50 years.
The study, published last month in the American Meteorological Society’s Journal of Climate and conducted by scientists from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and the Northern Gulf Institute (NGI), found “significant warming” of the Gulf’s sea surface temperature - a 1.8°F jump between 1970-2020.
This works out to 0.34°F of warming per decade, equating to roughly twice the rate of warming observed in the global ocean as a whole.
**SNIP**
In a grim speech to the Security Council’s first-ever meeting on the threat to international peace and security from rising sea levels, Guterres declared that sea levels will rise significantly even if global warming is “miraculously” limited to 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 degrees Fahrenheit), the elusive international goal.
He warned the Earth is more likely on a path to warming that amounts to “a death sentence” for countries vulnerable to that rise, including many small island nations.
In addition to threatened countries, Guterres said, “mega-cities on every continent will face serious effects, including Cairo, Lagos, Maputo, Bangkok, Dhaka, Jakarta, Mumbai, Shanghai, Copenhagen, London, Los Angeles, New York, Buenos Aires and Santiago.”
“Our world is hurtling past the 1.5-degree warming limit that a livable future requires, and with present policies, is careening towards 2.8 degrees - a death sentence for vulnerable countries,” Guterres said.
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Undersea volcanic action greatly increases sea surface temperatures.
Did they say whether the equator had anything to do with it or was it just American capitalism the reason?
While the right pounces, the left has us hurtling and careening.
The Gulf has always been warmer than open ocean, which has a surface limit of 30 degrees C. So a third of a degree per decade there is not exactly apocalyptic.
If you listen to Joe Bastardi, his theory is that ocean warming is not so much caused by the sun but sea bed geysers. It makes a lot of sense to me because much of the ocean heating seems to occur along ocean bed fault lines.
Perhaps it is time to take over Nicaragua and cut a new sea level Canal using nukes to excavate the soil as was planned decades ago!
I have read the Caribbean and Pacific oceans have a different sea levels and this might move the hot Caribbean waters out and mix them with cooler waters from the Pacific!
Of course some areas might get flooded but who cares! We will just blame it on a new step in Glo-Bull Warming!
We keep being told by other green mob types that the “dead spots” in the Gulf are rapidly increasing due to the pollutants being dumped there. I wonder if this global warming bunch has talked to the dead spot bunch about what effects these giant dead spots might have on normal temperatures?
No? Most likely both green weenie bunches are operating on feelings instead of science.
To hell with that Panama Canal idea, I say dig a mile wide 100 foot deep canal from San Diego along the mexican border to Brownsville Texas.
Get better mixing that way and you get hungry sharks.
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