One of the effects of the current El Niño & the rising ocean temperatures worldwide, seems to be a rapid warming of the entire watercolumn of Disko Bay, Ilulissat Icefjord & near Jakobshavn glacier's calving zone.
Water temperatures at the bottom made a sudden jump of +/- 1°C!

The temperature in the Tropics (23.5°S-23.5°N, 0-360°E) reached a new record high on April 20, 2024 of 26.913°C (or 80.44°F). arctic-news.blogspot.com/2024/04/temper…

We really need to be thoughtful about our understanding of the post-El Niño dynamics of our climate system.
The global mean sea surface temperature is not doing what was expected.
The rate of the atmospheric warming response will remain unpredictable. But it'll be upwards anyway.

Kris Van Steenbergen UN Climate Change Due to the OHC, heat no longer sequestered to depth. Heat diffusing to upper ocean layers and to atmosphere.
Today, coolest La Ninas are warmer than warmest El Ninos of 30 or so years ago.
#OceansDriveTheClimate
#OceanHeatContent

Larry79115 Paul Beckwith Kris Van Steenbergen Indeed all major ice sheets of Antarctica are under more and more threat from warming oceans. More and more research is demonstrating this, that OHC is major factor causing melting of ice sheets, far more so than changes in wind (speed, direction, etc) or aerosols.

Het is van levensbelang voor onze inheemse bijensoorten, zeer cruciaal voor de globale biodiversiteit en voor ons eigen voortbestaan, om zo veel mogelijk koninginnen te vangen van de Aziatische Hoornaar!!

Ze bieden zich nu aan bij potentiële nestlocaties.

Jo Brouns
Zuhal Demir

Today it's Switzerland's turn & tomorrow it'll finally be up to Belgium, or more specifically the Flemish Government, to be proven wrong in the appeal they have filed against the judge's ruling following the Belgian climate case.

Exciting.

cnn.com/2024/04/09/cli…

Paul Beckwith Jim Massa Kris Van Steenbergen
If Deep Ocean Heat is really a thing, and not a hoax, doesn't this show East Antarctica being the most vulnerable? Even if it's a bigger ice cube, there seems to be more water surrounding it directly.

Only some years ago these temperatures have been hardly reached in Summer and we are witnessing them this weekend. You cannot make it up how we are sleepwalking into extinction.

At the end of the first quarter of 2024, we can already make a cautious conclusion regarding the expected average temperature in 2024:
Close to 2°C (vs 1850-1900)!
This is based on the current CO2 trend, current ocean temperatures & current sea ice status.
climatereanalyzer.org/clim/sst_daily/

Kris Van Steenbergen Uhh, you haven't underestimated them. You've been telling us about them for years.
Oh, wait. This is a message for the public as well as ineffective politicians. They didn't listen, and in fact have put in place policies that continue our dependence on fossil fuels.
Yikes.

This is surely the most important research in the past 10 years, with a number of very serious findings regarding the very rapid response of the oceanic climate system:
First tipping point regarding heat transfer & CO₂ absorption.

eurekalert.org/news-releases/…
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