Ocean temperatures hit record high as rate of heating accelerates

Re:Ocean temperatures hit record high as rate of heating acc... by woodandsteel on Monday January 13, 2020 @07:05PM (#22040243)

Anybody know what the global climate change skeptic/denier position is on ocean warming is? Is it that the ocean is not getting warmer, or it is but it has some other cause than human activity, or it is but it's a good thing, not bad? Or do they just ignore it?

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Re:Ocean temperatures hit record high as rate of heating acc... by credit_guy on Monday January 13, 2020 @11:51PM (#22041955)

While the science is correct, the media coverage is like a contest of who can come up with the scariest spin possible. Case in point: this article mentions a heating of more than 200 zettajoules. Just to be extra helpful they put an asterisk and explain that "One zettajoule = 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 joules". Very clarifying, won't you say? I personally don't know anyone who is familiar with zettajoules, but I do people familiar with degrees Fahrenheit or Celsius. That number is absent. With a little bit of google, you can find it though. It's 0.135F or 0.075C [1].

[1] https://thehill.com/changing-america/sustainability/climate-...

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Re:Ocean temperatures hit record high as rate of heating acc... by woodandsteel on Tuesday January 14, 2020 @07:27PM (#22050666)

So is it your position that ocean warming will be bad in its consequences, but not nearly as bad as the media coverage says it will be?

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Re:Ocean temperatures hit record high as rate of heating acc... by lightgreen on Monday January 13, 2020 @11:07PM (#22041766)

There’s no single denier poison.

In my neighborhood the most popular position is: that’s great that temperature rises, winters won’t be so cold.

On co2 raise they usually respond with: high co2 is good for plants, and: high co2 promotes growth of algae, it will be reverted soon without us having to do anything about it.

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