“There’s no ambiguity about the data,” said Gavin Schmidt, a climatologist and the director of the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies. “So really, it’s a question of attribution.”
Understanding what specific physical processes are behind these temperature records will help scientists improve their climate models and better predict temperatures in the future.
Ocean 🔥 heat 🔥 has 🔥 shattered 🔥 records 🔥 for 🔥 more 🔥 than 🔥 a 🔥 year 🔥😎😎😎
This purposely obtuse headline is so annoying.
This article from last month was much clearer to me.
I thought we figured out that it was removing sulfur from ships’ fuel that caused less cloud coverage over the ocean which warmed it.
The good news is that now that we know the scale of the effect we can do something similar with non-toxic chemicals and help to mitigate climate change.
That’s part, but not enough to explain what we’re seeing, unless we’ve been significantly wrong about how impactful greenhouse gases and aerosols are.
Science suffers from a bias towards elegant explanations, maybe it’s just a fucking mess and we’re not going to find that one single thing to blame it on.
Thanks for the additional info!
I thought its more than 1C since 1981
Remember this is water, which has a much greater thermal capacity than air.
Yeah, I didnt mean its not much, but was sure the increase was higher (source: thoughts while taking shower hehe). Thx for clarifying!
Where finally getting good at breaking records
What’s happening is the beginning of the end. The time to prepare is now.
According to Republicans and companies like Exxon, anything that may or may not be happening cannot be conclusively tied to human activity. Nothing to see here!
It’s just volcanoes!! /s
