12 months of record ocean heat has scientists puzzled and concerned

[Uncle Joe]

The huge temperature anomaly — which climate change alone is unlikely to explain — could be a bad sign for hurricane season.

Every day for the last 12 months, the world’s sea surface temperatures have broken records.

Ocean scientists are growing increasingly concerned.

“It’s not just an entire year of record-breaking ocean temperatures, but it’s the margin it’s breaking them by — it’s not even close to what the previous record was,” said Brian McNoldy, a senior research associate at the University of Miami Rosenstiel School of Marine, Atmospheric, and Earth Science. “That’s what’s raising the eyebrows of a lot of people.”

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Some of the largest sea surface temperature anomalies are in the Atlantic and off the west coast of Africa, where the hurricanes that rattle the East Coast of the United States often start. What’s more, the National Weather Service’s Climate Prediction Center says that there is a 62% chance of a La Niña — which is associated with active and damaging hurricane seasons — developing in late spring.

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https://www.nbcnews.com/science/environment/oceans-record-hot-rcna143179

[Think. Again.]

1. I doubt the scientists are "puzzled"...

...every climate scientist knows, or should know, that when a natural system with the infinite complexity of our planetary ecology begins to break down, there is absolutely no way to predict each and every one of the changing processes that will occur.