‘Astounding’ ocean temperatures in 2023 intensified extreme weather, data shows

ohwhatfollyisman , 7 months ago

well, that’s nice. at least, in the years to come, we’ll get to bask in a great big hot tub before we drive ourselves to extinction.

autotldr Bot , 7 months ago

This is the best summary I could come up with:

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“Astounding” ocean temperatures in 2023 supercharged “freak” weather around the world as the climate crisis continued to intensify, new data has revealed.

The most common measure of the climate crisis – global average air temperature – was also driven up in 2023, by a huge margin.

But air temperatures are more affected by natural climate variations, including the return last year of the warming El Niño phenomenon.

By comparison, humanity uses about half a zettajoule of energy a year to fuel the entire global economy.

A separate dataset from the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration found a similar increase and identical trend over time.

A separate report, by the consortium Global Water Monitor (GWM), found some of the worst disasters of 2023 were due to unusually strong cyclones bringing extreme rainfall to Mozambique and Malawi, Myanmar, Greece, Libya, New Zealand and Australia.

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