Finally, an answer to why Earth’s oceans have been on a record-hot streak...A new study finds that the rate of ocean warming has more than quadrupled over the past 40 years—and pinpoints why. [Guess]

Popular Science ^ | January 30, 2025 | Sachi Kitajima Mulkey / Grist

[eyeamok]

The next ICE AGE successfully delayed, fire up the SUV’s, lets add some more years before the next one...

[FlingWingFlyer]

I just read an article yesterday claiming that the oceans are starting to cool again. The problem with America is that we have way too many “experts”.

[UnwashedPeasant]

Caused by too much Freedom.

The only solution is more Socialism.

/s

[PeterPrinciple]

In 2020, the International Maritime Organization adopted a new rule to cut back on sulfur pollution from shipping fuel, but because the aerosol particles in emissions acted as a seed for clouds, the regulation had the unintended effect of dimming the marine layer of clouds that blanket the ocean.

“So you get rid of a lot of those, and now more of the sun’s energy can be absorbed in the ocean instead of reflecting off clouds,” McNoldy said. According to Merchant, efforts to curb air pollution from factories in countries like China also had the side effect of cutting back reflective aerosols.

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how about that, they missed some datapoints of a very complicated system.

when I took agronomy the sulfur from manufacturing in the east was very important for soil ph and fertilizer.

[Vaduz]

Gee Moe guess all the under water volcanos have nothing to do with huh.

And the one in Hawaii that’s been cranking out lave into the ocean for the last 25 years in nothing also huh.

[BipolarBob]

Only Big Government can save us! They must turn the weather machine back on or we'll all freeze cook.

[Jane Long]

Unpopular Junk Science.

[MNJohnnie]

2020 had most hurricanes. We are truth we have been seeing a decrease in the number of, and severity of storms

The recent hurricanes do not even make the top 10 of the most destructive

[jeffc]

...the bathwater-like conditions have killed corals...

Second sentence in, "bathwater-like"?

I stopped reading there....

[volare737]

Great. I hope they keep warming. That darn Pacific is still too cold for swimming...lol.

[sasquatch]

It is always amazing that the 'measurement' of the temp. of the peach fuzz on the surface of an orb with a molten iron core is accepted as its temperature. What is the increase at 18000 feet on land and in the ocean?

“It’s a very tight correlation,” he said.

Ought to be a number between zero and one. Where does 'tight' land??

[cgbg]

Leftist hot air has overwhelmed the oceans.

Lol.

[Leaning Right]

It’s the hight of arrogance to think we can measure minute temperature changes in something so vast as the Earth’s oceans.

But maybe it’s not arrogance at all. Way more likely it’s scientific dishonesty: First decide on a conclusion, then force the data to fit that conclusion.

[Migraine]

Experts gotta eat, too.

[Tell It Right]

Wake me up when the ocean levels are high enough that Pevensey Castle in the UK has the tide every now and then come up against the walls like it did during the Medieval Warm Period.

[madison10]

Volcanoes and the sun?

[Political Junkie Too]

Yesterday, it was reported that Scientists Find Something Totally Unexpected Hidden Under Six North American Volcanoes: active magma chambers just under the surface of both active AND dormant volcanoes.

Is it possible that there are also active magma chambers under the underwater volcanoes, too? Could magma close to the bottom of the sea be contributing to ocean warming?

-PJ

[Tom Tetroxide]

I’d rather it be warmer during this record duration inter-glacial than back in the 2.5 million year ice age the Earth has been in. The cold kills way more than the heat does.

[Tom Tetroxide]

Global warming peaked about 8,000 or so years ago and it has been cooling off ever since then. During that time CO2 has gone up.