Record Ocean Heat is Intensifying Climate Disasters, Data Shows (theguardian.com)
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- News link: https://news.slashdot.org/story/26/01/09/148202/record-ocean-heat-is-intensifying-climate-disasters-data-shows
- Source link: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/jan/09/profound-impacts-record-ocean-heat-intensifying-climate-disasters
The analysis, published in the journal Advances in Atmospheric Sciences, drew on temperature data collected across the oceans and collated by three independent research teams. The measurements cover the top 2,000 meters of ocean depth, where most heat absorption occurs. The amount of heat absorbed is equivalent to more than 200 times the total electricity used by humans worldwide.
This extra thermal energy [1]intensifies hurricanes and typhoons, produces heavier rainfall and greater flooding , and results in longer marine heatwaves that decimate ocean life. The oceans are likely at their hottest in at least 1,000 years and heating faster than at any point in the past 2,000 years.
[1] https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/jan/09/profound-impacts-record-ocean-heat-intensifying-climate-disasters
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The entire continent of Europe has the one temperature?
Re:Where global warming?!! (Score:4, Interesting)
Imagine not understanding the difference between climate and weather.
Where? (Score:2)
Because the US Eastern Seaboard and Gulf region had [1]one of the milder hurricane seasons this year than usual [al.com]:
"There were two tropical storms in the southern Gulf’s Bay of Campeche in 2025, but this was the first year since 2014 that there was not a tropical threat to the northern Gulf Coast, according to NOAA data. It was also the first time in a decade that a hurricane did not make landfall in the United States at all, according to NOAA. "
The linked article notes of the major hurricanes that formed th
[1] https://www.al.com/weather/2025/11/no-gulf-storms-as-history-making-2025-hurricane-season-comes-to-an-end.html
Today in "Well, duh!" news... (Score:2)
"Look! A snowball! Obviously global warming is a myth!" I forget which of our congresscritters did that trick, but I hope he doesn't get re-elected.
Link is missing, headline is misleading (Score:4, Informative)
Strange that the actual news part of this article is "The world's oceans absorbed yet another record-breaking amount of heat in 2025" but there is no link at all to this, only a link two paragraphs down to a Guardian article, which states (with no references) that this will be "fueling increasingly extreme weather events."
The [1]actual scientific article [springer.com] (in the journal Advances in Atmospheric Sciences ) is not about extreme weather events.
For some better popular science discussion, try [2]https://scitechdaily.com/earth... [scitechdaily.com] or [3]https://phys.org/news/2026-01-... [phys.org]
[1] https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00376-026-5876-0
[2] https://scitechdaily.com/earths-oceans-just-hit-their-hottest-level-ever-recorded/
[3] https://phys.org/news/2026-01-ocean-temperatures-high.html#google_vignette
the actual article (Score:2)
for what it's worth, the various deniers here who try to discredit the science should read this the actual article. It's very meticulous about where the data comes from and how it was analyzed (and also, note, does not draw conclusions. It only presents the data.)
[1]https://link.springer.com/arti... [springer.com]
[1] https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00376-026-5876-0
I think the bigger problem (Score:2)
In the northern hemisphere is the sea ice extent. It used to provide a big cold air sink that keep cold air up in the Arctic and also make things colder by reflecting sunlight in the Arctic. Now we have more solar warming and less ice. The polar vortex is warmer, more chaotic and it sends air down in different places. The winter where I am has been nonexistant for the first half. It used to get down to -20C, now it barely freezes.
Up next (Score:5, Insightful)
Trump's government announces defunding of the NOAA.
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Hey now we haven't heard their evidence yet
"Record Ocean Heat is Intensifying Climate Disasters, Data Shows" Vs. "No it isn't"
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Trump just needs to see a hurricane destroy Mar-a-lago and suddenly NOAA will get billions in funding.
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I just need to see a hurricane destroy Mar-a-loco so I can laugh my arse off!
Re: Up next (Score:1)
Maralago is built of concrete and steel, not toothpicks. It has survived multiple storms.
They already did that (Score:2, Insightful)
No joke significant funding was cut to weather satellites and several of them shut down during Trump's first term in order to reduce the quality of data that was being used to prove climate change.
It was all over left-wing YouTube wanted happened and several of them, notably Belle of the ranch, pointed out that the lower quality weather data would inevitably cost people's lives during natural disasters like flash floods...
However bad you think the Trump administration is it is always worse. One of t