>>The world’s oceans were warmer in 2019 than at any time in recorded history, a new analysis confirms.

The past five years all set records for the highest average annual ocean temperatures, with last year continuing the trend upwards.

“It is important to note that ocean warming will continue even if the global mean surface air temperature can be stabilised at or below 2 degrees C.”

Around 90 per cent of climate change energy is stored in our oceans, according to Professor Abraham.

“You cannot really measure global warming unless you measure ocean warming,” he said.

“I like to say ‘global warming is ocean warming’, since the oceans absorb so much heat and are huge, it makes ocean measurements less noisy than air temperatures.”

They also estimate the rate of warming during the period between 1987-2019 was 450 per cent greater than the prior 30-year period from 1955 to 1986.

The warming has been particularly pronounced in the upper 2,000 metres of the ocean, with the top 300 metres accounting for about 41 per cent of the increase.

Although warming was distributed across the world’s oceans, it was more pronounced in the Atlantic and Southern Ocean, where several severe marine heatwaves have also been recorded in recent years.<<

https://www.abc.net.au/news/science/2020-01-14/climate-change-ocean-warming-2019/11863056

I think it’s peaked.

Peak Warming Man said:

I think it’s peaked.

So you don’t think it can get any hotter?

roughbarked said:

Peak Warming Man said:

I think it’s peaked.

So you don’t think it can get any hotter?

It could boil in theory

Cymek said:

roughbarked said:

Peak Warming Man said:

I think it’s peaked.

So you don’t think it can get any hotter?

It could boil in theory

Going to make for a lot more cyclones, some of them moving further from the equator than normal.

Tamb said:

Cymek said:

roughbarked said:

So you don’t think it can get any hotter?

It could boil in theory

Going to make for a lot more cyclones, some of them moving further from the equator than normal.

I thought the theory was that there would be less but they’d be more severe…

furious said:

Tamb said:

Cymek said:

It could boil in theory

Going to make for a lot more cyclones, some of them moving further from the equator than normal.

I thought the theory was that there would be less but they’d be more severe…

That was the theory but IMO things have changed dramatically of late.

Peak Warming Man said:

I think it’s peaked.

LOL :)

It’s like getting fat, it ain’t gunna go back to how it was before unless you go on a diet.

party_pants said:

Peak Warming Man said:

I think it’s peaked.

LOL :)

It’s like getting fat, it ain’t gunna go back to how it was before unless you go on a diet.

And the only long term diet for CC is less people.

Now we’ve got even Dr Who pushing the climate change bandwagon.

mollwollfumble said:

Now we’ve got even Dr Who pushing the climate change bandwagon.

I thought that.

buffy said:

mollwollfumble said:

Now we’ve got even Dr Who pushing the climate change bandwagon.

I thought that.

Agreeing with Moll is not the done thing.

mollwollfumble said:

Now we’ve got even Dr Who pushing the climate change bandwagon.

Excellent. the more the merrier.

Pacific ‘blob’ heatwave feared to have killed a million birds

Tens of thousands of seabirds found dead on the west coast of the US in 2015-16 were probably killed by an unprecedented heatwave, scientists say.

Around 62,000 common murres washed up on the coast of the Pacific Ocean but up to a million birds are thought to have died.

The scientists said that warmer sea waters, known as the “blob”, led to a shortage of the fish the birds feed on.

Other fish, birds and mammals also died in the same period.

https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-51140869

Bubblecar said:

Pacific ‘blob’ heatwave feared to have killed a million birds

Tens of thousands of seabirds found dead on the west coast of the US in 2015-16 were probably killed by an unprecedented heatwave, scientists say.

Around 62,000 common murres washed up on the coast of the Pacific Ocean but up to a million birds are thought to have died.

The scientists said that warmer sea waters, known as the “blob”, led to a shortage of the fish the birds feed on.

Other fish, birds and mammals also died in the same period.

https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-51140869

Did the muttonbirds finally arrive?

Michael V said:

Bubblecar said:

Pacific ‘blob’ heatwave feared to have killed a million birds

Tens of thousands of seabirds found dead on the west coast of the US in 2015-16 were probably killed by an unprecedented heatwave, scientists say.

Around 62,000 common murres washed up on the coast of the Pacific Ocean but up to a million birds are thought to have died.

The scientists said that warmer sea waters, known as the “blob”, led to a shortage of the fish the birds feed on.

Other fish, birds and mammals also died in the same period.

https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-51140869

Did the muttonbirds finally arrive?

Some did, but not many, apparently.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/science/2020-01-16/blob-seabird-murre-die-off-climate-change-marine-heatwave/11867264