The Crisis Report — 30

Why Is the Sea So Hot? Let me explain it to you.

Let me walk you through it.

Even if you don’t pay much attention to climate news you should be aware that 2023 was HOT. It was so HOT that the overall average temperature for the year was +1.5C over the “late 19th century” baseline. This represents a +0.3C JUMP from the +1.2C temperature average for 2022. This was equal to all of the warming from 1990 to 2010 happening in ONE YEAR.

As you can see from the graph above, 2024 has been HOTTER than 2023 so far. This MASSIVE warming of the Global Ocean has become so alarming. That the field of Climate Science is in a crisis over it.

Earth Was Due for Another Year of Record Warmth. But This Warm?

• NYT 12/26/2023

Scientists are already busy trying to understand whether 2023’s off-the-charts heat is a sign that global warming is accelerating.

2023 was the warmest year in the past 174 years, and very likely the past 125,000.

“Unyielding heat waves broiled Phoenix and Argentina. Wildfires raged across Canada. Flooding in Libya killed thousands. Wintertime ice cover in the dark seas around Antarctica was at unprecedented lows.”

“That is why scientists are already sifting through evidence — from oceans, volcanic eruptions, even pollution from cargo ships — to see whether this year might reveal something new about the climate and what we are doing to it.”

“On its own, one exceptional year would not be enough to suggest something was faulty with the computer models, said Andrew…