Tuesday, June 13, 2023

The Atlantic Is Getting Hot

This is scary. From Twitter, posted by Dr. Thomas Smith, associate professor of geography at the London School of Economics.

Things began to look very unusual two months ago.

Today the charts need no commentary, they speak for themselves.

This is the Atlantic.

North Atlantic Sea Surface Temperature Anomaly 1983-2023

This is so unusual. That's a *huge* amount of energy being transferred to the atmosphere. Expect extreme temperature and storm records. Just the top few metres of our oceans store as much energy as the entirety of our atmosphere. I'm very concerned about later this year into 2024.

There is more information on high sea surface temperatures and their effects in this article

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