The Atlantic Is Cooling at a Mysteriously Fast Rate After Record Warmth

Gizmodo ^ | 20 August 2024 | Adam Kovac

[Alas Babylon!]

For over a year, surface temperatures in the Atlantic Ocean hit new highs, but that trend has reversed at record speed over the past few months, and nobody knows why.

{skip obligatory global warming bs next few paragraphs...}

NOAA data shows Atlantic sea surface temperatures have cooled at a surprising rate since May. Since June began, temperatures have been a degree or two Fahrenheit colder than normal for this time of year. That means El Niño will likely be replaced by its counterpart, La Niña, a weather system that allows cold water to rise to the surface of the Atlantic, some time between September and November. Both El Niño and La Niña are complex systems driven by trade winds, solar heating, and rainfall in the tropic regions, and can be difficult to predict. Still, the sudden shift in Atlantic temperatures has been puzzling, and nobody seems to know why it’s happened so quickly.

“We’ve gone through the list of possible mechanisms, and nothing checks the box so far,” Frans Philip Tuchen, a postdoctoral student at the University of Miami, told New Scientist.

[Alas Babylon!]

Weather forecasters can't accurately forecast the weather 6 months out. But we are all expected to believe that these and other scientists can predict "climate change" effects years and years out.

[Steely Tom]

Obviously the result of global warming.

[Alas Babylon!]

Link only:

'The tropics are broken:' So where are all the Atlantic hurricanes?

I posted this article earlier today, but it had to be removed as it came from a lawsuit site.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

“nobody knows why.”

But they DO know we have to throw away $50 trillion of perfectly good power plants and replace them with high cost, unreliable systems that ruin the view shed all across our once-beautiful fruited plain.

[BipolarBob]

It's all the SUVs and gas stoves. Obviously. What else could it be?

/sarc

[ealgeone]

Weather forecasters can't accurately forecast the weather 6 months out. But we are all expected to believe that these and other scientists can predict "climate change" effects years and years out.

Exactly what I was about to post!!

[SaveFerris]

That’s my conclusion as well

[Alas Babylon!]

Thought you might be interested in this.

I am still not trying to jinx it!

[ryderann]

How many times in the last ten million years has this happened? Cold for a few decades, warm for a few decades.

[wildcard_redneck]

The scientists have discovered changes in weather! There’s also these mysterious periods called fall, winter, spring and summer that they might figure out sooner or later.

[SkyDancer]

Then too, what caused the last ice age and what caused it to end.

[Old Yeller]

Does this mean we’re all going to die?

[Ge0ffrey]

The ice caps are melting
Oh, ho, ho ho
All the world is drowning
Ho, ho ho, ho ho
The ice caps are melting
the tide is rushing in
All the world is drowning
to wash away the sin

[Governor Dinwiddie]

God controls everything. Not a sparrow falls without God knowing about it.
God has a habit exposing fools who pretend to be equal to Him.

[Governor Dinwiddie]

God controls everything. Not a sparrow falls without God knowing about it.
God has a habit exposing fools who pretend to be equal to Him.

[chiller]

I’d look at a cessation of under-Atlantic volcanic activity, which would be like turning off the oven.

[Governor Dinwiddie]

Yes. I've noticed that too. Used to be dozens of tropical storms and hurricanes each year. Not lately.

[lizma2]

This all started in the late 60’s with “THE ICE AGE IS COMING!!!!”, over and over, and throw in some acid rain and holes in the ozone.

Al Gore switched it to Global Warming.

I’ve read it was started by The Club of Rome, a precursor of the WEF.

It’s all about trying to use fear to control.

[chiller]

Predictors also point to more than normal dust blowing west off of Africa, sucking up moisture in the air. Satellite imagery seems to validate that, but I can’t attest to the accuracy of those images.

[Vermont Lt]

That would be a bad thing.