Global Ocean Temperatures Have Broken All-Time Records Every Day From More Than One Year

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The ocean has now broken temperature records every day for more than a year. And so far, 2024 has continued 2023’s trend of beating previous records by wide margins. In fact, the whole planet has been hot for months, according to many different data sets. “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.

Last month, the average global sea surface temperature reached a new monthly high of 21.07 degrees Celsius, or 69.93 degrees Fahrenheit, according to the Copernicus Climate Change Service, a research institution funded by the European Union.

“March 2024 continues the sequence of climate records toppling for both air temperature and ocean surface temperatures,” Samantha Burgess, deputy director of Copernicus, said in a statement this week.

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https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/10/climate/ocean-heat-records.html

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1. One really has to admire how clueless science reporting in the NY Times is.

Understanding what specific physical processes are behind these temperature records will help scientists improve their climate models and better predict temperatures in the future.

Is there, at this point, many people who wonder what "specific physical processes" could be?

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2. "I Arr Sai-unce Righter!!!! Hurr-Durr Hurr-Durr Hurr Durr!!!"

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3. Hansen is right; climate change is accelerating

And Mann was wrong to dispute him.