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29 Jul 2023, 11:43 am
Yahoo! listed these articles to me this morning. 
CNN: "This month is the planet’s hottest on record by far – and hottest in around 120,000 years, scientists say"
Typically these records, which track the average air temperature across the entire world, are broken by hundredths of a degree. But the temperature for the first 23 days of July averaged 16.95 degrees Celsius (62.51 Fahrenheit), well above the previous record of 16.63 degrees Celsius (61.93 Fahrenheit) set in July 2019, according to the report.
The data used to track these records goes back to 1940, but many scientists – including those at Copernicus – say it’s almost certain that these temperatures are the warmest the planet has seen in 120,000 years, given what we know from millennia of climate data extracted from tree rings, coral reefs and deep sea sediment cores.
“These are the hottest temperatures in human history,” said Samantha Burgess, deputy director at Copernicus.
AFP: "N. Atlantic ocean temperature sets record high: US agency"
The news comes after scientists confirmed that July is on track to be the warmest month in record history -- searing heat intensified by global warming that has affected tens of millions of people.
"Based on our analysis, the record-high average sea surface temperature in the North Atlantic Ocean is 24.9 degrees C," or 76.8 Fahrenheit, observed Wednesday, Xungang Yin, a scientist at NOAA's National Centers for Environmental Information, told AFP.
The record is particularly startling as it comes early in the year -- usually, the North Atlantic reaches its peak temperature in early September.
The previous record high was recorded in September 2022, at 24.89 degrees Celsius, Yin said.
The Florida Times-Union:"Researchers, including in Jacksonville, warn of perilous salinity changes in warming oceans"
Changing weather patterns due to climate change are contributing to that, making saltier areas of the oceans saltier, and fresher water more fresh.
“What’s going on all over the globe in the ocean is, as it gets warmer, with more sunlight you get more evaporation and water going into the atmosphere," he said. "The important point is that the water left behind is getting saltier."
But the water that evaporates will later come down elsewhere as rainfall, making the ocean there more fresh.
It's all part of a complex system of factors, including warming oceans, acidification and sea-level rise that causes inflow into coastal areas. That can put coral, plankton, mangroves, tidal marshes, macroalgae and seagrass at risk, and even lead to ecosystem collapse.
Yale Environment 360: "It's Not Just Climate Change: Three Other Factors Driving This Summer's Extreme Heat"
The first is the 2022 eruption of Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha-apai, an underwater volcano near Tonga, in the South Pacific. Typically, volcanic eruptions unleash sulfur-based aerosols, which block sunlight, cooling the planet, but the Hunga Tonga produced only a small amount of aerosols. At the same time, it vaporized a large volume of seawater. That water vapor, a heat-trapping gas, could raise global temperatures by 0.06 degrees F (more than 0.03 degrees C) over the next several years, according to a recent study.
The second factor is a change in the amount of energy radiating from the sun, which rises and falls ever so slightly every 11 years. At the high point in this cycle, a surge in solar energy warms the Earth by around 0.09 degrees F (0.05 degrees C). The sun is now ramping up to its next peak, expected in 2025.
The third factor is that the Pacific Ocean is heading into its warmer El Niño phase, when balmy ocean waters radiate heat into the air. The last strong El Niño raised global temperatures by 0.25 degrees F (0.14 degrees C).
29 Jul 2023, 6:33 pm
Had an interesting post show up in my Fb feed today. It was two heat anomaly maps. One from June 1976 and one from June 2022. This was in response to the person who posted noticing that some people in the UK were saying that the current heatwave was nothing special because they had one before in 1976.
The 1976 picture does indeed show several hot spots. But the 2022 is almost one global hotspot. And that's the difference.
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21 Aug 2023, 3:27 pm
Note: LA just had an earthquake in the middle of a hurricane in the middle of a drought.
22 Aug 2023, 10:34 am
very apropriate. ^^^^^....yes these are the interessting times that they wished( cursed) upon Us ( whomever).
But they have been particularily interesting ..? for a greater part of my lifetime...So it all seems to make sense .
But the old saying also is out there .." cheer up things could be worse".
Addendum: " And sure enough I cheered up and sure enough they got Worse"
Subsection A. " but I ain't dead yet"
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23 Aug 2023, 1:23 pm
"Climate change could bring year-round heatwaves: UN researcher"
I don't like hot weather!!
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