Maybe we need a new thread on this stuff.
Giant eddy currents in the sea spread heat. But if trapped in place, they can cause marine heatwaves deadly to sea life. And there’s a big one shaping up off Sydney right now.
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roughbarked said:
Maybe we need a new thread on this stuff.Giant eddy currents in the sea spread heat. But if trapped in place, they can cause marine heatwaves deadly to sea life. And there’s a big one shaping up off Sydney right now.
15m ago
Well lets hope these eddy currents kill some of the humpback whales that are breeding like flies and decimating the krill population,
… James Hansen said there is a huge amount of global heating “in the pipeline” because of the continued burning of fossil fuels and Earth being “very sensitive” to the impacts of this – far more sensitive than the best estimates laid out by the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).
“We would be damned fools and bad scientists if we didn’t expect an acceleration of global warming,” Hansen said. “We are beginning to suffer the effect of our Faustian bargain. That is why the rate of global warming is accelerating.”..
The new research, comprising peer-reviewed work of Hansen and more than a dozen other scientists, argues that this imbalance, the Earth’s greater climate sensitivity and a reduction in pollution from shipping, which has cut the amount of airborne sulphur particles that reflect incoming sunlight, are causing an escalation in global heating.
“We are in the early phase of a climate emergency,” the paper warns. “Such acceleration is dangerous in a climate system that is already far out of equilibrium. Reversing the trend is essential – we must cool the planet – for the sake of preserving shorelines and saving the world’s coastal cities.”
To deal with this crisis, Hansen and his colleagues advocate for a global carbon tax as well as, more controversially, efforts to intentionally spray sulphur into the atmosphere in order to deflect heat away from the planet and artificially lower the world’s temperature.
So-called “solar geoengineering” has been widely criticized for threatening potential knock-on harm to the environment, as well as over the risks of a whiplash heating effect should the injections of sulphur cease, but is backed by a minority of scientists who warn that the world is running out of time and options to avoid catastrophic temperature growth.
Hansen said that while cutting emissions should be the highest priority, “thanks to the slowness in developing adequate carbon-free energies and failure to put a price on carbon emissions, it is now unlikely that we can get there – a bright future for young people – from here without temporary help from solar radiation management”…
Tony Abbott says ‘climate change cult’ will be discredited
https://www.theage.com.au/world/europe/tony-abbott-says-climate-change-cult-will-be-discredited-20231101-p5egkc.html
roughbarked said:
Maybe we need a new thread on this stuff.Giant eddy currents in the sea spread heat. But if trapped in place, they can cause marine heatwaves deadly to sea life. And there’s a big one shaping up off Sydney right now.
15m ago
Things keep on going from bad to worse.
Witty Rejoinder said:
Tony Abbott says ‘climate change cult’ will be discreditedhttps://www.theage.com.au/world/europe/tony-abbott-says-climate-change-cult-will-be-discredited-20231101-p5egkc.html
Tony Abbott has discredited himself a long time ago.
> Giant eddy currents in the sea spread heat. But if trapped in place, they can cause marine heatwaves deadly to sea life.
Prove it.
mollwollfumble said:
> Giant eddy currents in the sea spread heat. But if trapped in place, they can cause marine heatwaves deadly to sea life.Prove it.
https://mnf.csiro.au/en/RV-Investigator
https://www.nature.com/articles/s43247-023-01041-8
roughbarked said:
mollwollfumble said:
> Giant eddy currents in the sea spread heat. But if trapped in place, they can cause marine heatwaves deadly to sea life.Prove it.
https://mnf.csiro.au/en/RV-Investigator
https://www.nature.com/articles/s43247-023-01041-8