the history of climate science includes the unrelenting demolition of the insane BS promoted as truth by deniers of anthropogenic global warming and the climate change it brings.
included in the tsunami of BS these shameless deniers excrete is that the measured global warming is somehow just natural variation and therefore of no wider significance, Because They Said So.
but as the measured warming continues and accelerates, this pseudoscientific denial that it doesn't matter erodes further.
we can see this happening. Below is another chapter in the demolition of denier BS - as measured.
"This accelerating ocean warming is driven by the Earth's growing energy imbalance – whereby more energy from the Sun is being absorbed in the Earth system than is escaping back to space. This imbalance has roughly doubled since 2010, in part due to increasing greenhouse gas concentrations, and because the Earth is now reflecting less sunlight to space than before.
"Global ocean temperatures hit record highs for 450 days straight in 2023 and early 2024.
"Some of this warmth came from El Niño, a natural warming event in the Pacific. When scientists compared it to a similar El Niño in 2015-16, they found that the rest of the record warmth is explained by the sea surface warming up faster in the past 10 years than in earlier decades. 44% of the record warmth was attributable to the oceans absorbing heat at an accelerating rate.
Expect more warming
" The findings show that the overall rate of global ocean warming observed over recent decades is not an accurate guide to what happens next: it is plausible that the ocean temperature increase seen over the past 40 years will be exceeded in just the next 20 years.
"Because the surface oceans set the pace for global warming, this matters for the climate as a whole. This accelerating warming underscores the urgency of reducing fossil fuel burning to prevent even more rapid temperature increases in the future and to begin to stabilise the climate. "
