‘Profound impacts’: record ocean heat is intensifying climate disasters, data shows
1d 7h ago by sh.itjust.works/u/HellsBelle in world from www.theguardian.com
The world’s oceans absorbed colossal amounts of heat in 2025, setting yet another new record and fuelling more extreme weather, scientists have reported.
More than 90% of the heat trapped by humanity’s carbon pollution is taken up by the oceans. This makes ocean heat one of the starkest indicators of the relentless march of the climate crisis, which will only end when emissions fall to zero. Almost every year since the start of the millennium has set a new ocean heat record.
This extra heat makes the hurricanes and typhoons hitting coastal communities more intense, causes heavier downpours of rain and greater flooding, and results in longer marine heatwaves, which decimate life in the seas. The rising heat is also a major driver of sea level rise via the thermal expansion of seawater, threatening billions of people.
Reliable ocean temperature measurements stretch back to the mid-20th century, but it is likely the oceans are at their hottest for at least 1,000 years and heating faster than at any time in the past 2,000 years.
So frustrating to be around people that I consider smart and intelligent in general see things like floods and storms and say: "well that's weather for you, it always does that". With zero interest or concern about the global warming.
One of them is an engineer, and he said there is no way of knowing what effect humans can have on the planet. I said bullshit. You can do the math, we have computers, we know about CO's effectiveness in creating a heat blanket, we know how much CO has been put into the air, so you can do the work and get a rough idea. It isn't that hard, start small, scale up.
He says, but volcanoes do far more. Like where the fuck did he hear that? We diverged from the average volcanic amount around 1875 and are at about 40 times as much. WE KNOW THAT DATA!
He continues making up shit... Like does he not have any damn natural curiosity? This is not some hidden mysterious thing here.
Sorry I had to rant. Between the smart people burying their head in the sand, and the richest people caring about nothing but profits, I feel pretty doomed.
People will bend logic like a pretzel if the end result goes against the peer group sanctioned opinion. Intelligence just makes better rationalizations.
https://www.veritasium.com/videos/2025/1/17/on-these-questions-smarter-people-do-worse
It's a classic experiment by now.
Intelligence is a multiplicity and usually in service of ego/inherited worldview
Unfortunately