Scientists are puzzled by a rapid increase in the temperature of the world’s oceans. The daily surface temperature between 60°N and 60°S reached a record high on March 31st – the highest temperature in the NOAA record that started in 1981.
It occurs as we are moving from persistent La Nina into El Nino conditions that could later this year increase global ocean temperatures by more than half a degree Celsius. [emphasis, links added]
Many factors have been postulated to be contributing to this temperature spurt. Sunspots are set to reach a high maximum sooner than expected this solar cycle.
In 2022, the Tonga submarine volcano eruption added a huge amount of water vapor into the atmosphere.
Also in 2022, the International Maritime Organization issued a ban on pollution from ships, reducing their sulfur emissions.
This reduced the blanket of aerosol particles reflecting sunlight back into space before it reached the oceans, thereby potentially heating it.
The temperature of the North Atlantic has been at a record high for some time, surpassing 20°0C [68°F] at the end of March.
This is curious because, at this time of the year North Atlantic sea surface temperatures are usually at their annual low. Sea surface temperatures are also high in the Pacific presaging a coming El Nino.
Because of its speed scientists are not yet linking this to the steady movements of climate change seen so far in the oceans. It might be natural variability, but whatever its explanation it is not replicated in most climate models.
Since this event comes in anticipation of a strong El Nino, which if it occurs will make 2024 the warmest year on record, it has been suggested that the world warmed in steps whereby an El Nino signifies the transition to a higher temperature than before.
Among the first to suggest this as an effect was the GWPF, and we also repeat that this is not well represented in climate models, whose projections play such an important role in the climate debate.
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Everything in Nature comes and goes, very often cyclically
I have read reports of people being prescribed 24 different drugs to swallow each day, 23 of which were to counter the side effects of the others.
Are we (the greens and climate panicers) bringing the same treatment to the climate?
So sad that it’s so true.
Climate science is more like a 3 Stooges affair meeting Mad Magazine.. These scientists are not really scientists, but political hacks and deadbeats on the government handout scheme.
The Fragile EARTH AND THE delicate Balance o Nature just two of the biggest lies we read or hear about from the M.S. Media the Eco-Freaks
These so called scientist are paid lackey’s of the climate cult.
JANUARY 29, 2023 Scientists Struggle to Understand Why Antarctica Hasn’t Warmed for Over 70 Years Despite Rise in CO2
Scientists are scrambling to explain why the continent of Antarctica has shown Net Zero warming for the last seven decades and almost certainly much longer. The lack of warming over a significant portion of the Earth undermines the unproven hypothesis that the carbon dioxide humans add to the atmosphere is the main determinant of global climate.
https://dailysceptic.org/2023/01/29/scientists-struggle-to-understand-why-antarctica-hasnt-warmed-for-over-70-years-despite-rise-in-co2/
Thank you, Brian, for a dose of common sense.
I’m not actually sure where they measured this ‘average temperature’? Here in New England, the ocean water is still cold.
Last time I was in Antigua, the water temperatures there are the same as have been for the past two hundred years. British Naval records verify this.
What a load of garbage. Anyone who has been in the water in the tropics will know the water is always very warm. The last time I was in it, it was cooler out of the water.
Scientists NOT puzzled by where the ocean temperatures are getting colder or not changing much, the Southern hemisphere where most of the ocean is, for example. This is OHI. Cherry picking Ocean Heat Islands. Rowlatting.