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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-...

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?