Posted on 04/08/2022 3:17:36 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
A recent study suggests that warming oceans are increasing the speed at which sound travels, ultimately making underwater noises louder.
The world’s oceans have absorbed more than 90 percent of the excess heat that humans have produced in recent decades, causing them to rapidly warm. And in these warmer waters, sound waves are able to travel faster and farther before fading out, making the ocean a noisier, louder place. This could be especially troubling for large mammals that rely on sound and use techniques like echolocation for communication and sensing their environment.
Using publicly available global data, the researchers calculated how salt levels, temperature, and depth in seawater affect sound. They identified that the waters around Greenland and east of Newfoundland can expect the greatest change in acoustics as the ocean warms. At depths above 1,640 feet, sound with travel 1.5 percent faster by the end of the century at these two “hotspots”. While this increase may seem small — it could have major impacts on large sea life.
The scientists also used computer models to explore how the vocalizations of the critically endangered North Atlantic Right Whale might be affected. They found that two whales at 165 feet below sea level could communicate at a wider range, due to how much further sound travels.
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I’ve been farting now more than i usually do- likely due to climate change.
Who the hell do they think they are kidding.
I can hear the whales crying. They’re crying and saying “stop the Co2. Vote Democrat”.
I was down by the seashore yesterday. It was so loud, I had to wear earplugs and forego a business lunch cuz we couldn’t hear each other.
Everyone who bought their lies about CO2.
Models!!! Like that makes their lies official! LOL
It’s also making my wife frigid, my kids defiant and my dog disloyal. Is there nothing we can’t blame on the fiction of man-caused climate change?
The Horror!
The one in Hawaii was the site of the Magnam series. Obama had it demolished. Nothing against whitey of course.
Come to think of it, lately I’ve been noticing more - and louder - noises around me. I though it was all due to my crazy, drunken neighbor. But I see now it was due to the oceans.
I’m relieved. I guess.
Uh, ear plugs. Just sayin’.
Where do these northeast media outlets have to dredge, to scour up these millennial moron “ reporters “ ?
Coins, unless they are gold, usually cause some sort of contretemps...and if they ARE gold, will almost certainly result in beating and blood.
What I heard, anyway.
Brown-eyed girls my butt.
But if we don't act now - it may be too late - and we will all die
miserable deaths because of it - especially the children.
We must immediately DEMAND that government spend whatever
is needed to STOP THE LOUD OCEANS!
Taxes must be increased NOW to deal with this horrible problem.
/s
because a few parts per million of a trace gas in the atmosphere totally doesn’t violate any laws of thermodynamics heating a medium with a few orders of magnitude difference in specific heat or anything
Millions of liberals.
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