rexiSep 2, 2025

https://phys.org/news/2025-09-years-panama-deep-cold-ocean.html

There's a real non-zero chance that they* come hunting scientists to punish in later years for not having told us how starkly and quickly the climate change feedback loop would take hold.

*[powerful in search of culpability, real or contrived]

"Upwelling is a process that allows cold, nutrient-rich waters from the depths of the ocean to rise to the surface. This dynamic supports highly productive #fisheries and helps protect #coralreefs from #thermalstress."

#climate

For the first time in 40 Years, Panama's deep and cold ocean waters fail to emerge

The natural phenomenon of upwelling, which occurs annually in the Gulf of Panama, failed for the first time on record in 2025. A study led by scientists from the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute (STRI) indicates that the weakening of the trade winds was the cause of this event. This finding highlights the climate's impact on fundamental oceanic processes and the coastal communities that depend on them.

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Show threadrexiSep 2, 2025

https://phys.org/news/2025-09-ocean-carbon-ailing-absorption-marine.html

Measurements analyzed by an international research team led by ETH Zurich show that the global ocean absorbed significantly less CO₂ than anticipated during the unprecedented marine heat wave in 2023.

The ocean carbon sink is ailing: 10% drop in CO₂ absorption seen during record 2023 marine heat wave

Measurements analyzed by an international research team led by ETH Zurich show that the global ocean absorbed significantly less CO₂ than anticipated during the unprecedented marine heat wave in 2023.

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has this atheist mumbling "god help us" anyway..

nightmarish, in that our government is defunding our only means of cushioning the impact.

there is no 'safe' corner of earth to hide in: humans will only have using *even more carbon* to make what is left livable.

Sep 2, 2025 at 9:19pmWeb
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and that will exclude almost all of earth's other species.

congrats, #GenAlpha kids, you have drawn the shortest straw for humans —‌ maybe ever.

#MassExtinctionEvent

Show threadrexiSep 4, 2025

pps; I'm seeing the change in the absorption curve for oceanic CO² as the appearance of another unanticipated #climatefeedbackloop effect.

the math on *atmospheric* CO² changes accordingly. and badly.

Show threadrexiSep 9, 2025

https://phys.org/news/2025-09-room-carbon-dioxide-driver-climate.html

#Carbonstorage as a way out of the #climatecrisis?

"Our findings make clear that it is a limited tool" so research prof Gidden, UMD's Center for Global #Sustainability.

"If we prolong our dependence on #fossilfuels for too long with the expectation that we will offset that by simply storing carbon underground, we're likely saddling future generations with a nearly impossible task of dealing with not only our mess, but limited ways of cleaning it up,"

#carboncapture

Study: There is less room to store carbon dioxide, driver of climate change, than previously thought

The world has far fewer places to securely store carbon dioxide deep underground than previously thought, steeply lowering its potential to help stem global warming, according to a new study that challenges long-held industry claims about the practice.

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