"Oceans hit highest ever recorded temperature and set to rise further - Average daily surface temperature of 20.96C breaks 2016 record, with experts saying warmest month for oceans to come - The surface temperature of the world’s oceans has hit its highest ever level as climate breakdown from burning fossil fuels causes the oceans to heat.

Global average daily sea surface temperatures (SST) hit 20.96C this week, breaking the record of 20.95C reached in 2016, according to the Copernicus climate modelling service.

Scientists say it is likely the record will continue to be broken, as usually oceans are at their hottest globally in March, not August.

Dr Samantha Burgess, from Copernicus, said: “The fact that we’ve seen the record now makes me nervous about how much warmer the ocean may get between now and next March.”
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"Sea surface temperature measurements made from ships go back more than 150 years and are some of the longest instrumental records available for understanding the climate. For the past 40 years, there have also been measurements available from satellites and buoys.

From this data, scientists have found that over the full period of the records, global mean sea surface temperature has increased by close to 0.9C, and that the increase over the past four decades is about 0.6C. The latest five-year average is about 0.2C above the average between 1991 and 2020."

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/aug/04/oceans-hit-highest-ever-recorded-temperature

#Oceans #GlobalWarming #SST #SeaSurfaceTemperature #Climate #ClimateCrisis #Klima #Klimakrise #ClimateEmergency #ClimateDiary

- 7.2% of American adults are LGBTQ. That's 18.9 million adults, or larger than the entire veteran population.
- 11 million Americans are bisexual. That's more people than the entire state of Georgia.
- 3.6 million Americans are gay. That's more than the entire state of Utah.
- 2.6 million Americans are lesbian. That's more people than every single farmer in the country.
- and 1.6 million of us are transgender. That's TWICE as many as there are cops in the entire United States.

When people say "we shouldn't change our entire society just to pander to such a small percentage of it", that's obviously a really dumb argument from just an ethical stance. But it's also a really dishonest one. Because they would never say the same thing about veterans, farmers, cops, or the populations of entire States.

Unions matter—to every worker, not just their members. Assaults on entertainment unions aren't isolated; they hint at a broader union-busting agenda.

No matter what execs say, the real inflation culprit isn’t wages. It's corporate leadership chasing profits and hoarding wealth in boardrooms and Wall Street.

#wgastrike #WGAStrong

From: @seachanger
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