The average daily global sea surface temperature beat a 2016 record this week, according to the EU’s climate change service Copernicus.

It reached 20.96C. That’s far above the average for this time of year.

  • Chainweasel
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    191 year ago

    Honestly no, and not because it didn’t happen, but because it happened in 1896 before even my great grandparents were born. 127 years and 5 generations later and people are still denying that it’s happening at all and there’s been very little meaningful progress to move away from fossil fuels in that time. Things won’t start to get better until climate change kills enough people off that we can no longer sustain an industrial society.

    • @Burn_The_Right@lemmy.world
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      231 year ago

      Normal people aren’t denying it at all. Conservatives are denying it. That’s it. Conservatives. A blend of idiots and their leaders who are paid by the pollutors.

      Conservatives should be shunned and excluded from polite society. They are proactively killing us and we just walk among them as if they are normal people. They are not.

      • @Hellsadvocate@lemmy.world
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        131 year ago

        And if anyone thinks that deaths will cause them to change their mind then you clearly didn’t pay attention during the COVID era.

    • @MercuryUprising@lemmy.world
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      121 year ago

      Things will never get better. When we can’t sustain an industrial society then people will start murdering each other for the dwindling resources we have left. This is the best it’s going to ever be in anyone alive’s lifetime.

      • Chainweasel
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        21 year ago

        Well, maybe not for us, but the earth will eventually heal once we’re gone.

        • No it will not. There is absolutely zero evidence of that, and if anything, the ocean warming levels point to the contrary. It can just as easily spiral into the opposite direction and create a greenhouse style system like you see on Venus. Even if we died today, biodiversity levels would take millions of years to get back to pre-industrial levels.

          • Well, maybe not for us, but the earth will eventually heal once we’re gone.

            Even if we died today, biodiversity levels would take millions of years to get back to pre-industrial levels.

            So you agree.

            • The evidence in the geological record shows that this level of ocean acidification has never been hit this quickly before. This level of ocean acidificaion is the highest its been in 300 million years and there is nothing indicating it has any intention of going down.

              • girlfreddy
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                11 year ago

                @MercuryUprising

                The oceans have healed before and are far more capable of that than you seem to think.

                Will it take millions of years? Ofc it will. But it will happen, because as long as there is one single-celled organism that survives our self-immolation it will grow and produce and evolve.

    • @schroedingershat@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      Eunice Foote’s experiments in 1856 and the documentation of acid rain in the 1850s were sufficient information to stop expansion of fossil fuels without a clear and precise picture of their effects.