#ocean temperature

[thegoodmorningman]

Have a Warm Sunny Morning on Land or Under The Sea!!!

[lenbryant]

Coyote Annie warns about the ocean temperatures.

[queer-crip-grows]

Previously, when the Coastal Data Information Program (CDIP) buoys detected a reading over 35 degrees Celsius, the reading was assumed to be a possible sign of instrument damage or malfunction.

But this may be the new normal.

Earlier this week, the CDIP 256 buoy — located in the Gulf of Mexico off the coast of Louisiana — clocked a record reading of 35.0 degrees Celsius, or 95 degrees Fahrenheit; the warmest detected sea-surface temperature in the history of CDIP.

View the data here:

I’ve been listening to several things on the collapse of the Old Kingdom in Ancient Egypt, which occurred as a result of droughts caused by Atlantic current disruptions that were less severe than is looking likely within the next 25 years. Disruption in food systems destroys civilisations.

I think a lot about Tolkien’s thoughts on despair and how it drains the ability to fight for the future. I am aware that, as a Northern European, I am very literally in a better place to survive this than people in the Global South, many of whom are already suffering the impacts of climate change.

About the best thing I can say, if you also live in the Global North, is to be galvanised by our responsibility to help people who need to flee uninhabitable areas however we can, whether that’s political or personal (or ofc both). We need to step up in building stronger communities *and* on putting pressure on the state to arrest and reverse their fascist leanings. And we need to be there for refugees and work on actively accepting and absorbing people into our communities, including old and poor and disabled people.

We need to *help*. And if we despair we won’t.

The way we survive as humans is by doing things for each other. And if we die, which we will eventually no matter what we do, we hopefully help there to be a world where there are still humans, and there are still other creatures we value too.

I’m thinking a lot about “Let this radicalise you rather than lead you to despair.” It’s the best thing that’s working for me so far about taking this in.

We can’t despair. There is work to be done.

The Coastal Data Information Program (CDIP) specializes in wave measurement, swell modeling and forecasting, and the analysis of coastal env

[climbhighsleeplow]

Atlantic Ocean circulation nearing ‘devastating’ tipping point, study finds

Collapse in system of currents that helps regulate global climate would be at such speed that adaptation would be impossible

[mudwerks]

(via An ominous heating event is unfolding in the oceans | Ars Technica)

[nellydrawss]

Ocean

[rjzimmerman]

Big fish sightings are spiking. Climate change may be the cause.

As big fish crop up in unexpected places, experts say that they're relocating to new environments as waters warm.

Excerpt from this Washington Post story:

Big fish sightings appear to have spiked around the world: In the last year-and-a-half, there have been reports of a 661-pound, record-breaking stingray in Cambodia, a 240-pound lake sturgeon outside Detroit and a 100-pound opah fish on the Oregon coast. As these fish show up in unexpected places, experts say climate change may be helping drive this trend.

The fish “aren’t growing larger, they are relocating to new environments,” said Francisco Werner, director of scientific programs at National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Fisheries.

As waters warm — fueled by oceans absorbing more than 90 percent of the excess heat from global warming — fish are relocating. Werner’s work has shown that there is a prevailing pattern to these shifts, that fish populations are shifting toward the poles and cooler waters.

They are “trying to maintain some optimum temperatures and preferred temperature ranges that they like,” he said.

Last year, a huge opah fish — the kind typically found in tropical waters — washed up on the north Oregon coast. And Tiffany Boothe, assistant manager at an aquarium in the small beach community of Seaside, said it wasn’t the first time southern, warm-water fish had shown up in Oregon.

Salmon travel deep into the Pacific. As it warms, many ‘don’t come back.’

On the other coast, drastic temperature shifts in waters have meant changing conditions for fish there. In the Gulf of Maine, for example, waters have warmed five times faster than the global average for the past 15 years, said Kathy Mills, a researcher at the Gulf of Maine Research Institute. As a result, Maine’s waters may offer a glimpse into future fish movement as planetary warming continues. Mills said the cod fishery “really supported the first fisheries in the country, and we have seen these populations decline as waters warm.”

[nemfrog]

“Plumes of chlorophyll-rich waters extend many kilometers off the U.S. west coast.” System concept for wide-field-of-view observations of ocean phenomena from space. 1987.