The next 10 years are shaping up to be BAD ones. Lets look at some of the pieces coming together.
Let’s talk about the oceans. Because “Global Warming” is really “Ocean Warming”.
This is what I said almost two years ago.
The last few weeks have been my brain on overload trying to assimilate everything that’s going on in the world and see the “shape” of events. Things are happening now at a pace that would have seemed unbelievable a few years ago.
I am reminded of Tuchman and her “March of Folly”. I fear we have missed our chance to act cooperatively as a global community and deal with the Climate Crisis collectively. It increasingly seems likely that there will be WAR.
Deja vu right?
I don’t think the situation has improved over the last two years, do you?
This is a reasonable way to understand the real Earth’s Climate System. 80% of the solar energy the earth captures happens along the equator, the “ring around the world”.
90% of that energy goes into the world’s oceans.
In 2023 about +15Zj of ENERGY went into the Global Ocean. That’s about 471 million HIROs worth. In just ONE YEAR…
…The +140ppm increase in the CO2 level to +420ppm over the last 170 years might not seem like much. But, CO2 levels haven’t been this high for about 20 million years.
90% OF THE HEAT GOES INTO THE OCEANS.
Oceans surged to another record-high temperature in 2022 WAPO January 11, 2023
The amount of excess heat buried in the planet’s oceans, a strong marker of climate change, reached a record high in 2022, reflecting more stored heat energy than in any year since reliable measurements were available in the late 1950s, a group of scientists reported Wednesday.
That eclipses the ocean heat record set in 2021 — which eclipsed the record set in 2020, which eclipsed the one set in 2019. What do you think happened in 2023 and now 2024?
12 months of record ocean heat has scientists puzzled and concerned. -NBC News 03/15/2024
“Every day for the last 12 months, the world’s sea surface temperatures have broken records.”…
(Many charts and visuals to support the text.)
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