The Panama Sea stopped “breathing” in 2025, and what satellites and fishermen saw had never been recorded in four decades

Econews ^ | 16/1/26

[Eleutheria5]

For four decades, the Pacific coast of Panama has counted on a reliable seasonal pulse of cold, nutrient-rich water that powers local fisheries and cools coral reefs. In early 2025 that pulse all but vanished. Scientists report that the Gulf of Panama’s usual upwelling failed for the first time in the instrumental record, a breakdown they see as a warning about how quickly climate disruption can unsettle tropical seas.

During most years from roughly December to April, strong northerly trade winds sweep across Central America and into the Gulf of Panama. Those winds push aside warm surface waters so that cooler deep water can rise, bringing nutrients that feed phytoplankton and, in turn, dense schools of fish. The same cool water takes the edge off regional marine heat, giving nearby coral reefs a measure of protection against bleaching during the dry season.

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[Eleutheria5]

"...a warning about how quickly climate disruption can unsettle tropical seas"

New newspeak term. "Climate disruption." There's been a shift in the grift. "Climate change" is out. "Global warming" is out. Now it's "climate disruption".

[Steely Tom]

The Panama Sea stopped “breathing” in 2025, and what satellites and fishermen saw had never been recorded in four decades

Obviously this is the fault of the United States.

[SaxxonWoods]

4 years? So, it happened 5 years ago.

[where's_the_Outrage?]

Trump’s fault!

[SaxxonWoods]

Oops, I meant 4 decades, so it happened 5 decades ago.

[pierrem15]

Four decades in geologic time is a blink of an eye. We simply don't have enough records to judge whether this change is unusual or not and exactly what the causes might be.

I do notice the following decades long pattern however:

Problem --> Proposed solution

Income inequality: Communism
Pollution: Communism
Racial Discrimination: Communism.
Climate Change: Communism

[Robert DeLong]

There is no such thing as The Panama Sea. Don't take my weord for that. Try to find it yourself.

If that is not true, is any part of the story facutal at all?

[doorgunner69]

“Those winds push aside warm surface waters “

I have to question that mechanism.
Blowing warm air away, sure, but pushing surface water away?

Wind causes ripples and eventually waves.

[SuperLuminal]

"...stopped “breathing” in 2025..."

Hogwash!

[Track9]

Was the summer of love ‘climate disruption’? Every lib pol peddles ‘change’. ‘Living breathing Constitution’. What’s wrong if the earth does it? They must hate the earth.

[Sequoyah101]

Panama Sea? Never heard of i. Can’t find i. This must be fiction.

[Eleutheria5]

Four decades. Whatever.

[Eleutheria5]

It’s next to Panama, which is shaped like a “C”.

[one guy in new jersey]

Oooh

Scawy

[Organic Panic]

And they left out the obligatory “man made” meaning they don’t know what of why anything happens.

[Sequoyah101]

You mean the Gulf of Panama then.

[dfwgator]

[brookwood]

“cold water that powers local fisheries” I didn’t know water could power a fishery. The eco-nuts have a way with words.

[Steely Tom]

There is no such thing as The Panama Sea. Don't take my weord for that. Try to find it yourself.

Ha ha! Unbelievable.

I never heard of it. But my first thought was "they said it on the internet, so it must exist."

[17th Miss Regt]

“cold water that powers local fisheries” I didn’t know water could power a fishery. The eco-nuts have a way with words.

Who cares? People should not be eating fish, thereby depleting the schools of fish. After all, fish are people too! What about their rights? (/eco-insanity)