I have to repeat myself. Why isn't this on the headline of all newspapers?
@MartinStendel ich glaubwenn das so weitergeht wir muessen uns auf tropische wirbelstuerme vorbereiten💀

@MartinStendel

My two cents is:
People feel helpless and hamstrung. They start (start!!!😖 ) to suspect, something is wrong, but they feel, it would cost them a lot of effort (and money) to confront themselves with it and take appropriate actions.
They feel they rather deserve holiday in a country far, far away, where they have to fly to, and they are pretty busy with far more important stuff. (🤬 )
It's their right to have a comfortable life!
So what was it with this strange red curve again?

@MartinStendel would like to use this, is there a source?
@timoka please look a little further up, where this has been discussed in detail...
@MartinStendel Just curious: does it look as alarmingly if the reference data would include 2012 to 2022 instead of stopping at 2011?
@ives @MartinStendel this article (https://yorkshirebylines.co.uk/news/environment/north-atlantic-ocean-records-its-highest-ever-sea-surface-temperature/) appears to have the same graph with the title changed to include 2012-2022, but the data looks the same (at a glance). does anyone have a primary source for this chart?
North Atlantic Ocean records its highest ever sea surface temperature

Sea surface temperature in the North Atlantic continues to break records

Yorkshire Bylines
@jon_wnc @MartinStendel That looks fishy. AFAICT it uses the same reference lines (prev max is still 0.8C). But the 2023 line starts at 0.55C in the article instead of 0.7C. And the years have been bumped.

@jon_wnc @ives @MartinStendel

The page says chart from
https://climatereanalyzer.org/

But I didn’t found the same chart.
I found different ones

https://climatereanalyzer.org/clim/sst_daily/
https://climatereanalyzer.org/clim/t2_daily/

Maybe they changed the unit of y-axis

Climate Reanalyzer

@Acer @jon_wnc @MartinStendel Thx for that link! I found this graph on the site. It has an absolute y-scale instead of the relative one in the graph at the start of this thread. Looks less spectacular at first sight, but it's also quite bad if you look at it more closely.

@jon_wnc @ives @MartinStendel
This has the source and offers export of the chart's data, too https://climatereanalyzer.org/clim/sst_daily/

Several news outlets had articles on this issue a few weeks back when the global SST had just exceeded the "block" of lines. In April or so it was. Maybe, newsrooms don't allow a repetition of the same story, as the predominently climate-ignorant journalists everywhere probably see it.

Climate Reanalyzer

Sea surface temperature (SST) data visualizations

@MartinStendel because #Mainstream #MassMedia in #Capitalism is beholden to #Advertisers and thus cannot seriously question the System or even oppose it.
How the American Media Fuels A Cycle of Violence

YouTube
@MartinStendel apparently because scientists suck at effective science communication 🙄 (according to The Hill article)

@MartinStendel

where is that pretty blue-lined graph coming from? I found this one
https://climatereanalyzer.org/clim/sst_daily/ but that shows the base data (which is useful too), not flattened relative to the day-of-year mean (which makes it easier to see the magnitude of the anomaly)

Climate Reanalyzer

Sea surface temperature (SST) data visualizations

@MartinStendel

ah looks like it might have come from the legendary Peter Gleick 👍
https://fediscience.org/@petergleick/110583149984527655

Peter Gleick (@[email protected])

Attached: 4 images · Content warning: Angry rant from climate science communicator.

FediScience.org

@MartinStendel

Sabine covers the anomaly here at 14m10s or so https://youtu.be/65it0Slapwk — one idea for why this is happening now is that recently, sulfur emissions from big ships were outlawed, and sulfur reflects sunlight

Record Temperatures in the North Atlantic

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Because most readers would think this is a graffiti?
@MartinStendel Thats absolutely scary. If I wanted to put this on a poster for the next climate march, where could I get the data?

@MartinStendel page 8 of the Saturday newspaper of @nrc_nl . So I guess some are making this an headline?

https://www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2023/06/17/de-atlantische-oceaan-is-te-warm-a4167437

De Atlantische oceaan is te warm

Zeewater: Het water van de Noord-Atlantische oceaan is ongekend opgewarmd. Door klimaatverandering, maar er speelt meer.

NRC
@MartinStendel I'm afraid people can't handle the fact that it is actually happening.
@MartinStendel Because rich folks won't die from this...

@karolherbst @MartinStendel

Rich folks won’t die from this…. so far.

@brianbr @MartinStendel no no, they just invent the magic "defeat global warming" machine with their "smart" investment and make a fortune saving the earth.
@MartinStendel why only till 2011 ? Why not till 2022 ?

@Harrock @MartinStendel

Because it wouldn't change anything except of shifting the whole plot slightly downwards by a constant value. (The average temperature curve until 2011 is basically a sine wave. The average temperature curve until 2022 is basically a sine wave, too, but just with a slight offset to higher temps.)

What you need to know about the 'extreme' heatwave hitting our oceans – video explainer

The Guardian's environment reporter Helena Horton explains what disastrous effects can be expected as a result of record-breaking sea temperatures surrounding the UK

the Guardian
@MartinStendel because journalists are enemies of the people (unironically, but from the left)

@MartinStendel @jwildeboer The clicks for climate played out 10 years ago, there’s no point in covering it anymore.

/s but only slightly.

@MartinStendel it was in the news already
@MartinStendel
Zients has a balloon over Central America just in case the papers step out of line.
@artisanrox

@MartinStendel

Here is a plot that puts the anomaly into perspective with the seasonal variations:
https://climatereanalyzer.org/clim/sst_daily/

Still scary.

Climate Reanalyzer

Sea surface temperature (SST) data visualizations

@MartinStendel Quiet, Timmy, Lassie says there's a billionaire at the bottom of the sea!

Defense budget! SAR resources! Roll out!

@MartinStendel

Because headlines about impending extinction do not sell!

@MartinStendel ots no anomaly, it’s us, killing the seas and oceans. Some ppl are too stupid to accept that fact.
@MartinStendel if I could just put on my tin foil hat real quick - I'm pretty sure that at this point the rich people who rule over us understand that climate change is very real and coming to kill us, and recognize that if the rest of us catch on we might demand action. As a result, our media instead obsesses over stupid trivialities like donkey brains with too much money going on stupid submarine rides.
@MartinStendel Maybe if we start the rumor that it may have caused that billionaire's sub to implode?
@MartinStendel Triggering thermal dynamic expansion! Don’t by beachfront property? Too warm!
@MartinStendel
What are the units and numbers on the vertical axis?

@MartinStendel@fediscience.

CNN June 20, 2023
“Richard Unsworth, an associate professor of biosciences at Swansea University in the UK and a founding director of Project-Seagrass, called the Atlantic heat wave “totally unprecedented.”…

“While we can’t in detail predict the intensity, duration and location of severe heating events such as the current marine heatwave, we know they’re increasingly likely to be more prevalent as our climate system collapses further,” Unsworth said.”

“As our climate system collapses further “ is one terrifying comment.
And still the fossil fuels pour into the atmosphere.
It’s time our free wheeling billionaires pay a (substantial) carbon tax for their destructive lifestyles.

#ClimateEmergency #OceanTemperatures #OceanHeatWave
#ElNino
#massextinction

@MartinStendel Honest answer from someone who's not closely following this stuff - it's overwhelming and in order to cope I've had to force it to be background noise. I think I'm not alone and people would just skip reading it. I'm not terribly interested in the billionaire submersible either but they run that story because it's a STORY, it has a beginning and an end and a cast of characters. This is just... a screeching alarm that people have tuned out. Hell, people tune out literal alarms in Ukraine.
@MartinStendel I found this https://blog.metoffice.gov.uk/2023/06/16/sea-surface-temperatures-breaking-records/ which includes this quote from the wonderfully named 'Professor Albert Klein Tank'. As I read this it seems to suggest 'stand down'
Sea surface temperatures breaking records

The global sea surface temperatures for both April and May were the highest on record for those calendar months in a series stretching back to 1850. That is according to the HadSST.4.0.1.0 dataset …

Official blog of the Met Office news team
@MartinStendel Dude, we have decades of training in ignoring charts and graphs about climate change!
@MartinStendel I'm sure you'll find it on page 23 or so, with some quotes from scientists clearly freaking out ("unprecedented, we enter unknown territory") but the journalist will be applauded for not making an alarmist piece out of it.
@MartinStendel where can we find this graph?
@MartinStendel Temperatur im Nordatlantik - in 2023 extrem #KlimaKrise #KlimaKatastrophe #fridaysforfuture #LetzteGeneration Martin Stendel fragt: „Warum ist das nicht die #Schlagzeile in den #Medien?“
@MartinStendel People have some absurd fascination with some stupid rich people who got themselves killed trying to sight see at the Titanic.

@MartinStendel @Grandalf

Dude we’re going to be knee deep in seawater before it maybe makes page eleven. Or if it does make the front page, it will be because they’re say that it’s Climate Change activists wot dun it

What you need to know about the 'extreme' heatwave hitting our oceans – video explainer

The Guardian's environment reporter Helena Horton explains what disastrous effects can be expected as a result of record-breaking sea temperatures surrounding the UK

the Guardian
@MartinStendel @MattMastodon I can’t hear you: my head’s too far down in the sand.
@MartinStendel

No, it's ok, the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Current is vastly overrated.

Europe is fully prepared for an Ice Age, it's not been too long since the last one, they still have the plans & procedures they had in place from the last one.

Don't panic, it is all in good Neoliberal hands.
@MartinStendel this is still the most terrifying graph I’ve ever seen. And I’m a maths teacher.
@MartinStendel I don’t know in the rest of the world, but in Europe I would think it might be because journalists tend to have a rather limited scientific culture and background.
@MartinStendel The only climate related news that makes headline is when some good people block a road. I despair.
@MartinStendel Five people dying is a tragedy, billions dying is a statistic and not good for sales.
@MartinStendel Because people in power are terrified of what will happen once people realise the extent of the problem.