Why has the sea surface temperature ( #SST ) increased so fast this past year and a half? Are #climate models missing key factors?
The article provides a good overview of some of the compounding effects (SO2 aerosols, #solarcycle 25, #water vapour from the Hunga Tonga #eruption and El Nĩno), but is it enough to explain what’s happening? Either way, it’s an enormous amount of heat.
Brian McNoldy, a hurricane researcher at the University of Miami, said. “It’s like the whole climate just fast-forwarded by fifty or a hundred years. That’s how strange this looks.”
@Edelruth@dave it’s shocked a lot of people - the next 12 months will be really important in determining whether this represents a new regime that will require updated climate models
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